David Berri

The replies to this are as funny as you would expect.

And I am surprised -- given how so many men act in relationships -- the human race is still around.

I suspect the Venn Diagram of men who do not care that AI doesn't generate a profit and the men who insist the WNBA isn't profitable (and think that matters if it was true) is a damn circle.

The WNBA/NBA Doesn’t Believe IN Phee And Are the People of the WNBA/NBA Really Great Business People?

Now that the WNBA season is over, the real game begins.
The fight for the future of the league.

WNBA fans believe in this league.

Time for the owners of the WNBA (yes, the NBA is the majority owner) to have the same belief!
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The entire Tigers season comes down to two innings.
So we know the outcome will definitely be statistically significant!!!

If women don't like sports, why is my wife yelling at the television during the WNBA Finals??? 😂

Open the pod bay doors, HAL!!! 😂

It is fascinating how many men
a. know nothing about the WNBA
b. are not interested in the WNBA
c. have immensely strong opinions about the economics of the WNBA

We need to create special WNBA Dunning-Kruger stickers for these men:

"Congratulations! You are a WNBA Dunning-Kruger Effect!"🤣

Just spent an hour working on my next book. Wrote about a sentence.

I would rather spend my time making so little progress than asking an AI program for help.

I share this sentiment. I have zero interest in having AI write my articles and books for me. I can figure out my own transitions.

I think I am showing this to my history students tomorrow. Time to tell my students about what dating was like once upon a time! 😂

Detroit Tigers are still alive on Yankee elimination day.
My late father would be very happy!

I definitely never heard it before and it sounds like something very recent. Until you hear the part that it is about a telephone call!

Once upon a time -- before texting, email, etc... -- we had to call people we liked! 😂

Rick Barry had a theory that if you overcame a huge deficit and there was some time left on the clock, you would still lose the game. The team that lost the lead makes a counter-run at the end to win the game.

Will see if that is true tonight!

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The song from the Bumble ad is from 1971.

My wife and I like the song so much we are now both joining Bumble! 😂

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMMP...

I am not sure I can relate to a commercial where part of the story is a 9-year old having a catered birthday party (with an extensive staff).

The Detroit Tigers this past month seem to hit very well when it doesn't matter at all. When they needed a hit (game is close, runner in scoring position), they have been awful.

Pressure has just killed this team.

The AI sports ads are teaching people how to find spurious correlations.

Not so much artificial intelligence as artificial silliness!

Yep. Same dollars.

The capital raise -- along with the recent media deal -- shows a lack of faith in the WNBA product.

The NBA (the de facto majority owners of the WNBA) show us by their actions they don’t think very much of the WNBA.

And that is why they don’t want to pay the WNBA players what they owe them!

The WNBA and NBA sold off 16% of the league for just $75 million in 2022.

When the WNBA is worth billions in the future, that 2022 capital raise will look worse than the decision to give the Silna brother a piece of the NBA’s TV rights in 1976.

The NBA also had a crisis of confidence in the 1970s.

Someone decided to give the Silna brothers a share of future NBA TV money in 1976. This deal meant the NBA paid $800 million to fold the Spirts of St. Louis of the ABA.

The WNBA had its Spirts of St. Louis moment in 2022.

Sophie Cunningham said the WNBA “might be really great business people”. I don’t think the evidence supports that story at all.

The WNBA is now sprinting ahead of the NBA historic revenue and attendance growth path. But the WNBA is still worried about “sustainability”.

The WNBA/NBA Doesn’t Believe IN Phee And Are the People of the WNBA/NBA Really Great Business People?

This is a rather lengthy story (really it is two columns) on how the fundamental issue in the WNBA is that NBA doesn’t truly believe the WNBA is just as good as the NBA.

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Here is a thread on this…

Maybe!! Wish they would say!!

'Beyond repair': Napheesa Collier, Cathy Engelbert and a WNBA teetering on the brink Amid the WNBA Finals, two of the most powerful people in the game are locked in a contentious battle -- for public opinion, power and money.

Nice to see ESPN quote our New York Times story today.

But the big story here is this sentence:

"According to a report from Deloitte earlier this year, revenues are projected to top $1 billion this year."

If true, WNBA players are getting 2% of revenue!!!

www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...

Opinion | The W.N.B.A. Is Making More Money Than Ever. Why Aren’t the Players? (Gift Article) Other professional sports leagues give their players roughly 50 percent of the revenue, but the W.N.B.A. players get less than 10 percent.

A must-read for every #WNBA fan. ⛹️🏾‍♀️⛹️‍♀️🏀👏🏾👏🏾

SOURCE: @wagesofwins.bsky.social
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GRAPHICS: Sara Chodosh

#GiftArticle: 🎁
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Okay... that looks cool!! Thanks for taking the pic!

Sunday Times in the PNW. @wagesofwins.bsky.social

After further review, the play has been determined as a common foul and Holly Rowe will shoot two.
#WNBA

YouTube video by clasis Veridian Dynamics People lie

Tonight I am reminded of this clip from Veridian Dynamics (from the sit-com Better off Ted):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1di...

People lie.
Companies protect their interests.
It's different.
😂😂