The women who play in the w nba, which is the highest level of basket ball played in that sport, can only make a few hundred thousand dollars at the most there's a hard salary cap for what they can make. In russia, like as in a number of countries in europe in the middle east, she's able to make more than a million dollars playing for one of the teams there that's owned by oligarchs. And so she has been spending her off season making three, four, sometimes five times the salary she could make in the us. I didn't become aware of it until ae my junior senior in college, and i starte to realize that the