Jemele Hill wasn’t a fan of the tone being used around the conversation on WNBA salaries — and she let it be known.
The former ESPN journalist and current contributor to The Atlantic took to X on Tuesday in a lengthy post about the situation that the WNBA faces and responded to critics who bashed what the league was paying its newest star, Caitlin Clark.
Clark will earn $338,056 over four years, per the league’s collective bargaining agreement, with the Indiana Fever after the club drafted women’s college basketball’s biggest star first overall in Monday’s WNBA draft in Brooklyn.
“I’m already annoyed by this conversation because for years, WNBA players have fought for more money. And when they were outspoken, so many of y’all told them to shut up or reminded them how they had no value The NBA has had 50+ years of investment, media coverage, etc. After 27 years, the WNBA will not be the current NBA. So stop comparing them,” Hill wrote on social media.
Hill then went on to point out that WNBA players compete for four months and are given free housing and cars as part of their deals before suggesting that the lower salaries were “why so many women’s players play overseas to boost/supplement their income.”
