There has been quite the brouhaha these past few days since women's basketball phenom Caitlin Clark was picked first in the WNBA draft, and it was announced that her annual salary for her rookie season would be $76,535. The shrieking harridans of the "GENDER PAAAAAAAY GAP!!!!!!" squad were immediately deployed, and they haven't yet stopped shouting.
It is also the first time the WNBA Draft has drawn more than 1 million viewers, and it also flew past the TV figures of the MLB and NHL drafts in 2023, according to various reports.
All this outrage over WNBA pay is uninformed, misguided and defeatist. Yes, Caitlin Clark’s WNBA salary seems unjust when compared to her NBA peers’ salaries. But as Kavitha Davidson wrote this week, the details matter. Because the WNBA cannot and should not be compared to the NBA, which is expected to generate $13 billion this year. The WNBA will not match that. Nor can it match the NBA’s massive national media deals, which are expected to pay the league $2.8 billion this year alone. The WNBA...
The anticipation amongst basketball fans in Indianapolis has been at a fever pitch ever since it was determined that the Indiana Fever would be getting the first pick in this year’s WNBA draft. It was a foregone conclusion when that happened that the Fever were going to select Iowa Hawkeyes star Caitlin Clark to pair […]
In news that will certainly make the WNBA and Indiana Fever management very happy, Caitlin Clark was voted NBA players’ second favorite non-NBA athlete in a poll that also saw five other women’s basketball players make the list. The anonymous NBA players poll, conducted by The Athletic and published on Monday, not only saw Caitlin […]
Caitlin Clark appears to be on the cusp of setting another record, as she reportedly is preparing to sign an eight-year, $28 million deal with Nike that includes a signature shoe.
MANHATTAN (KSNT) - An already impressive roster for K-State women's basketball is adding a major scoring weapon. On Sunday, 6-foot-1 forward Temira Poindexter committed to Kansas State. The rising senior will play her last year of college hoops in Manhattan after spending three seasons with Tulsa. As a junior, Poindexter won Player of the Year []
Caitlin Clark’s impact on the game has been well recorded over the past year as her on-court performances drew record viewers to the broadcasts
After thanking Caitlin Clark following a victory over her in the national championship game earlier this month, South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley made the case that Clark deserves first and foremost credit for exploding interest in the sport. In an interview on Bernstein & Holmes on 670 The Score in Chicago on Wednesday, Staley
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Where did Caitlin Clark get picked? Here's how our first fantasy women's basketball mock draft played out.
The objectification of Caitlin Clark by a reporter is not an isolated incident. It is emblematic of broader institutionalized media trends that diminish women athletes.