To some, Dwyane Wade let the chopper fly recently on his Wine Down podcast. As we’re living during a time when the WNBA is booming with progress, there’s been much conversation about why progress has taken as long as it has. I primarily think that leagues need time to grow. I’ve said before that the NBA wasn’t always this lucrative. It took the star power initially of Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Larry Bird to begin a true run of profitable years in the league. By the 1980s, the NBA was in its fourth decade of operation. The WNBA is entering its third decade of operation, but it still has a few years to spare. Wade believes that the slow burn of this progression is partially linked to fan support of the WNBA. On Wine Down, regarding Caitlin Clark he stated, “You got now the people coming out of the woodwork that’s never watched the game, that doesn’t know nothing about the game — now point to say well why is she only getting $300 thousand over four years? Why she don’t have a...
