Four-time WNBA All-Star and current free agent Liz Cambage ripped the league on Twitter and cast foremost doubt if she returns subsequent season.
Tuesday (Feb.1), Cambage sounded off in regards to the WNBA’s current pay development and the pay inequities that at current plague it. In a tweet, she wrote, “ahhh certain the @WNBA the place a head coach can receives a fee 4X the highest-paid players supermax contract. lmao and y’all suppose imma spend one different season upgrading my seat on a flight to get to video video games out of my very personal pocket.”
Her suggestions seem like referring to fellow WNBA hooper Breanna Stewart signing a 1-year “supermax” deal to return to the Seattle Storm for $228,000. Stewart’s deal comes on the heels of Cambage’s former group, the Las Vegas Aces hiring Becky Hammon as its subsequent head coach and GM alongside together with her wage reportedly exceeding $1M yearly, making her the first WNBA coach to take motion.
Cambage’s suggestions might all nonetheless affirm that she has no plans to resign with the Las Vegas Aces ensuing from her commenting on Hammon’s wage, to not point out go properly with for any group throughout the WNBA this upcoming season. Cambage, 30, is at current an unrestricted free agent and balled out for the Las Vegas Aces for the earlier two seasons. Last season she made $221,450.
Tuesday marks the first day of WNBA free firm, allowing players to take their talents to totally different teams or resing with their current organizations.
We’re intrigued to see if Cambage dips from Vegas. All through her 5 seasons throughout the WNBA, she averages 16.3 components, 7.7 rebounds, and 1.6 blocks per sport.
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