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🗓️ 22 July 2025
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A group of WNBA players decided to wear “Pay Us What You Owe Us” t-shirts ahead of their All-Star game as negotiations for their collective bargaining agreement drag on. While the WNBA has certainly enjoyed a boost in ratings, the league is still losing millions of dollars a year. So are the players delusional, or do they have a point? Let’s talk about it.
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0:00.0 | The WMBA is back at it again. They are calling for pay equity. |
0:03.0 | And this time they decided to protest by wearing t-shirts that say pay us what you owe us for warm-ups before an All-Star game. |
0:10.0 | The only issue is the WMBA is not profitable yet. So let's talk about it. |
0:15.0 | Yeah, you better. |
0:18.0 | Yeah, you better. |
0:26.0 | Guys, before we get into today's video, please like and subscribe. |
0:27.5 | Yes, today we're talking about the WNBA. |
0:31.8 | And it's not because one of the players has eye gouged Caitlin Clark or shoved her to the ground, |
0:35.5 | even though she is quite literally the all-star player of the WMBA. |
0:38.4 | She's the only reason we're really talking about the WMBA. |
0:41.8 | No, today we're going to be talking about them because they've decided to wear t-shirts that say pay us what you owe us out for more months before an all-star game. |
0:46.7 | Ironically, what I'm hearing is they went to play a pretty lackluster all-star game |
0:51.7 | right after that. Now, I don't know from firsthand watching because I kind of refuse to watch the WMBA. |
0:58.5 | It is of no interest to me, and that's kind of why we're having this conversation about pay and getting paid what they're owed in the first place. |
1:07.5 | I can think of very few circumstances where it would make sense to so boldly and publicly |
1:12.4 | protest an employer in the middle of negotiations, especially for a league like the WNBA, |
1:18.7 | which is not doing too well at the moment. |
1:20.3 | They are not turning a profit. |
1:22.8 | But everybody thinks that they are some movement maker right now in our year 2025. They probably think this |
1:29.6 | is a new wave of feminism that they're creating out on the court by wearing these little |
1:33.5 | t-shirts that say pay us what you owe us. But I promise they are not the Susan B. Anthony's, the |
1:39.2 | sojourner truths, or the Elizabeth Katie Stanton's of 2025. They are WMBA players who are in a league that is 42% owned by the NBA right now. |
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