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ProfessorGAC

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12. One Problem

Reply to RockRaven (Reply #7)

Sun Dec 11, 2022, 11:15 AM

Dec 2022

Even at that 20%, half the WNBA teams would lose money if not for the NBA subsidies.
At 50% of revenues, every team in the NBA makes a profit. (Anything that says otherwise is likely an accounting trick.)
So, I'm not comfortable that the 20/50 comparison is appropriate.

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