I just read an article about the wage gap between the NBA and the WNBA.
The article focused on the WNBA only paying 20% of its revenue in salaries vs the NBA paying 50%. In that article, they neglected to mention or factor in operating costs whatsoever. You need to pay for people to run the day to day operations, you need to pay the arena staff, you need to pay for travel-and the costs associated with that are not proportionately less than for an NBA game. It doesn't take a degree in economics to determine that using the percentage of revenue is not an apples to apples comparison of the financial health of the two leagues. The article then goes on to accuse the owners of lying about the financial state of the teams and even suggested that with all the money that the owner of the NY Liberty makes from the Rangers and the Knicks that he should be happy that he gets a tax write-off by owning the liberty.
No wonder the NHL doesn't want to get involved with a women's league.
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