Originally posted by BeKnighted:
This is a pretty interesting development. The WNBA underpays relative to other leagues, and particularly the Russian league, but I honestly don't have any idea what its financial situation really is. It reported that it expected half of the teams to make a profit in 2014, but that's sports accounting, so that could mean anything. The current ESPN contract pays only about $1 million per team per year, and attendance is somewhere around 7,500 per game (call it $2.5 million a year per team), so it's not like there's a huge amount of money to throw around.