Speaker 1: All right, as you guys may have heard, Kitlyn Clark
Speaker 1: was the number one pick in the WNBA draft and
Speaker 1: she'll be playing for the Indiana Fever. Okay, congratulations to
Speaker 1: Kitlin Clark. But what shocked everybody was her salary for
Speaker 1: playing professional basketball. Three hundred and thirty eight thousand, fifty
Speaker 1: six dollars for four years.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's over a four year period.
Speaker 1: This breaks down to seventy six a little over seventy
Speaker 1: six thousand dollars in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: This year, seventy eight.
Speaker 1: It goes up to seventy eight next year, then in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six eighty five thousand, then in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: seven over ninety seven thousand dollars a year. Now consider
Speaker 1: this the NBA mail players. We all know they make
Speaker 1: more money, but they earn an average annual salary of
Speaker 1: over ten million dollars annually.
Speaker 2: Ten million dollars. This is for the men the NBA.
Speaker 1: Here. And to make it worse, that's average. That's average, though, Tommy.
Speaker 1: And to make it worse, the mascots, the mascots of
Speaker 1: the NBA teams make a lot more per year than
Speaker 1: wb W NBA players. The Denver Nuggets mascot, for instance,
Speaker 1: earns six hundred and twenty five thousand dollars a year's
Speaker 1: selling insulting.
Speaker 2: Church up stands.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, the mascot for the Atlanta Hawks six
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2: Come on, boy, Chicago right there, that's how you hop.
Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls mascot annually four hundred grand a year.
Speaker 2: Ah, So what are we saying here? This is this
Speaker 2: is a mess. Talk about this. This is horrible.
Speaker 1: Yes, but but on the brighter side, Caitlyn, will you page,
Speaker 1: go ahead and say it.
Speaker 2: I will say it again.
Speaker 3: Listen to me. Women's basketball is great to watch, but
Speaker 3: you have to put more bodies in those stands so
Speaker 3: that you can get more TV rights and you can
Speaker 3: have more viewership. And women have got to support women athletics.
Speaker 3: This is on you guys are going to the game.
Speaker 4: We're going to see men play, you see women play. No,
Speaker 4: say everybody, no, no, because it's two different games we're watching.
Speaker 3: But women should support women athletics. I don't. I don't
Speaker 3: see why that's a hard ask. I really don't. There
Speaker 3: are more women in this world than there are men.
Speaker 2: Go to the games.
Speaker 1: And women then they make more money and get more
Speaker 1: TV exposure and all of that.
Speaker 3: If women want more pay in this sports world, you've
Speaker 3: got to support your team. That's all it is.
Speaker 2: Just go to the game, buy ticket, go to the.
Speaker 1: Game, go to then, but the bus Well, anyway, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say that Kaitlin Clark does have sponsorship deals
Speaker 1: worth three million with Nike, State Farm and Mr.
Speaker 2: Block.
Speaker 1: Coming up in thirty four minutes after the hour, Roscoe
Speaker 1: Wallace will be in the building right after this.
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