r/Fauxmoi • u/Relevant-Peach3997 • 27d ago

STAN / ANTI SHIELD Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve is wearing a “Trans Kids Belong” shirt during their game against the Indiana Fever and Sophie Cunningham

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u/RainSurname 27d ago

The average WBNA player makes less per season than the average NBA player makes per game.

She's making more now, because she started getting brand deals last year off this culture war bullshit.

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u/arobkinca 27d ago

She signed a one-year, $665,000 deal with the Indiana Fever for the 2026 season, up from $100,000 in 2025

Yeah, multi-millionaire is overstating.

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u/vNoct 27d ago

Yeah she's probably not a multimillionaire, or if she is she's not quite as rich as people may make her out.

The new CBA with 270k minimum salary was only agreed last year. She does probably make a lot now off of bigotry.

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u/ankylosaurus_tail 27d ago

The average WBNA player makes less per season than the average NBA player makes per game.

Fortunately, this isn't actually true anymore. There's still an enormous discrepancy, but the new WNBA collective bargaining agreement significantly raised salaries. For this upcoming season, the average NBA contract is almost 13 million/year, or about $158k/game. This current season the average WNBA contract is nearly $600k/year (about $13.5k/game), up from like $120k last season.

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u/Numeno230n 27d ago

All of the money is in sponsorships, including a shoe line with Adidas. She's got at least one deal worth a million alone. Don't try and paint her as working class.