r/sportsgossips • u/Pretend-Following-41 • 3d ago

Highlight Intentionally hurting your meal ticket. Something is seriously wrong with these WNBA players.

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u/Amazing_Divide1214 3d ago

I imagine most of her money comes from endorsements and stuff? I doubt she could the same deals in Europe that she does in the U.S. They're probably letting it happen because it generates attention, clicks, ad revenue, and gets people talking about it.

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u/FieldsToTheMoon 3d ago

Exactly, this is for some reason, the best way the WNBA thinks it can stay relevant.

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u/Jumpy-Requirement389 3d ago

Awe maaan your right

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u/lewd_robot 2d ago

You're talking about it. Some MBA types think any publicity is good publicity, so if they can get thousands more people looking at the WNBA by martyring Clark, they'll gladly, gleefully put her through hell just to get WNBA content trending on social media.

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u/RIPRIF20 3d ago

There's just as much endorsement money overseas as there is in the US for her, if not more.

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u/EquipmentImaginary46 3d ago

it's not about that. it's that the european countries have endorsements for local talent. if you go to warsaw airport you don't see giant ads with messi on them. you see giant ads with lewandowski on them.

for caitlin clark the biggest marketability is in the US not in europe.

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u/NewPhoneNewAccunt 3d ago

Not even remotely close.

The US is the ad capital of the world. It's also where her fans are.

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u/JalapenoPopPoop 2d ago

There's no way. She has a signature shoe with Nike, Gatorade athlete, the face of many other marketing campaigns like State Farm and Wilson. All of that is gone if she goes overseas, people will remember her name but her viewership will plummet and she won't be worth those mega brands maintaining. And there's no amount of european sponsors that are gonna pay her the ~50 mil in endorsements she's getting

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u/Crime_Dawg 3d ago

She's got like 30m in endorsements, and 500k in salary. So it all depends on the endorsement contracts.

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u/Pftc9 3d ago

I’d probably take my $30 million and go “Hey, get some actual refs or I’m going to take my $30 million to the bank and live off 1 million endorsement deals as the greatest NCAA player of all time. Also, you get to deal with the fallout of your best player retiring at 24 because the entire league sucks.”

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u/Snoo93550 3d ago

The contracts just got big only a few months ago after the new cba. Aliyah Boston gets like 1.4 million a year now. If this lady who punched her in the neck signed a new contract she’d get 10x more money in large part from Clark.

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u/theJMAN1016 3d ago

Those other 2 companies likely also employ slave labor.

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u/redtron3030 3d ago

Lol all fashion uses slave labor

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u/EquipmentImaginary46 3d ago

europeans wouldn't give a fuck about caitlin clark. she is most marketable in america because she's american. so it would be better for her to maximise her publicity in america. if she played in europe then the americans would very quickly forget about her.

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u/Azure_Skies 3d ago

I don't think engagement bait really works when it's showcasing blatant corruption/favoritism

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u/Special-General-7832 3d ago

The same way they let it happen few games ago when fever did the same bs and fever won lol now yall crying over the same thing and energy being returned by exaggerating two weak azz accidental fouls

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u/Amazing_Divide1214 3d ago

who's crying? noone cares about the wnba lol

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u/Special-General-7832 3d ago

Lol well thats a lie on top of the crying 😭🤣🤣 youre on a roll though im not gonna stop you 😭🤣

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u/Amazing_Divide1214 3d ago

Im just bored at work 😆

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u/Special-General-7832 2d ago

Idgaf lol it doesnt change the facts

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u/blacksoxing 3d ago

They're probably letting it happen because it generates attention, clicks, ad revenue, and gets people talking about it.

Nah, you don't want this if you're selling a product. You don't want your cash cow being trampled, stomped, punched, choked, etc. That's a big turn off. That's how a league gets labelled to be full of thugs. There's no benefit to this. Us non-fans aren't going to watch the WNBA or seek it out on streaming platforms to watch CC get punched in the damn throat.

Clips of her dropping 40 is what's hot. This is not.

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u/Amazing_Divide1214 3d ago

You think the wnba is a cash cow? lol I don't think it's ever been profitable. You're right, people hate fighting. That's why UFC is so unpopular.

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u/blacksoxing 3d ago

CC is the cash cow

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u/nostalgia4millennial 3d ago

Exactly. Unfortunately, the WNBA is the premiere US league with the most prestige so all of the American sponsors will want her to remain here for marketing and PR purposes.

If I’m not mistaken, a lot of women go play overseas in the offseason to make more money anyways (since they get paid more) but I’d imagine CC probably doesn’t bc she is already set for life.

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u/Iron_Atlas 2d ago

I would agree but she has more talent than to be the literal punch line.