Name: Sue Bird: 'I pretty much lost money playing in the WNBA'
Uploaded: 2024-10-17
Duration: 1 min 24 s
Description: Basketball star Sue Bird claims she 'lost money' while playing in the WNBA.

Basketball star Sue Bird claims she "lost money" while playing in the WNBA.

Sue Bird: "I pretty much lost money playing in the WNBA"

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Because I think for both weeks, we've signed massive media deals. So the money is around the corner. So that's, that's really exciting for a long time. A lot of us had to play overseas. Um But really recently you've been able to make money off the court and that's actually what was so um from a player standpoint, so confusing. I was like, wait, I'm only getting paid, you know, in, in some of my, my later years after the new CB A was signed, I did get to make in the 200 you know, $250,000 range, which was wonderful. But um for a large portion of my career, I was stuck at like 101 10 for, for, I pretty much lost money playing in the WMB A if I'm being honest, like if you look at like inflation and stuff. So it was really confusing because I was getting offered crazy deals off the court from a marketing standpoint, representing brands, maybe going to do a speaking engagement. And that's really for me, that disconnect, I knew we had something I knew that the players were in the community. I knew that the players had value even outside of being basketball players. But why weren't we, we're being valued as a player. Um So the good news is all of us. I mean, I'm retired now, but a lot of the players, we learned how to be our own businesses. We understood what it was to, to create our own brands and, and now you're getting a really dynamic athlete that brands get to work with And that's really when I talk to different brands, what I push and, and, and athletes are ready for it. But yeah, the media deals here now, so it's all gonna change.