The Importance of Women's Basketball

Players in the WNBA have had to make this choice where it's like you play the entire year just to basically sustain yourself as a basketball player. Russia is paying some of the women up to 10 times more what they make in America. So now with what we hopefully catalyzed in this current collective bargaining agreement, there's players that now have opportunities to not only make more money but to be compensated in the league market and the team market so that they don't feel like they have to go overseas which also affects motherhood and child planning.