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  • The NBA owns the WNBA de jure: the trademarks, all the intellectual property. The WNBA Enterprises LLC is owned by the NBA.

    The NBA doesn’t own the WNBA teams though - although a handful of them belongs to NBA owners. So basically the WNBA teams participate in a league they don’t own.

    The W.N.B.A. is currently owned half by the 30 N.B.A. teams, and half by the 12 W.N.B.A. teams.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/sports/basketball/wnba-capital-raise-investors.html

    The NBA website literally mentions the WNBA in the “Our Leagues” page:

    The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization built around five professional sports leagues: the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League

    https://careers.nba.com/our-leagues/

    That being said, “misogynist is a buzzword” is a hilarious thing to say. I can tell what type of person you are already, and blocking you will not deprive me of literally anything of value.






  • ragnar_oktoTechnology@lemmy.worldTumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says
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    1 year ago

    Did you skip my comment completely? WNBA is a part of the NBA. They’re not operating at a loss, they are a cost incurred by the NBA in order to promote basketball to a female viewership.

    It’s like saying a marketing team operates at a loss because ads cost a company money. It’s just the wrong way to look at it. Usually the people who are adamant on phrasing it such are misogynists, which I really hope you aren’t, and you can understand what I’m saying



  • There’s now significant bitterness and hostility,

    Yes, I’ve noticed this more than ever in the last year or two, it simply is not pleasant to interact with people on reddit anymore. Old accounts stopped posting months or years ago, new accounts either don’t take it seriously (therefor making the entire experience an empty and frustrating exercise in trolling) or use it purely to make bad faith arguments about politics.

    Don’t get me wrong, reddit’s never been exactly a bastion of highminded discourse but right now it’s positively vile.