Question for WBB fans

[Dryburn]

I was just wondering about something, and am too lazy and busy to do the research myself, when I am sure some of you on here can answer the question.

Do any women players in college leave early for the WNBA? Do the same rules apply to them as do guys leaving for the NBA? Just wondered.

 

[joefrog]

I think Parker left early from Tenn. for the WNBA.

 

[fccy]

Is it possible? I believe so, as I believe that Candice Parker left Tenn before playing 4 years. It is the very rare exception, however.

I do not know what the rule is.

 

[HiltonMagic]

I think the rule is that you have to stay 4 years. Parker took a medical redshirt her freshman year, so technically she did leave early, but it was after 4 years.

 

[Kitkat]

I know that Rutgers lost a good player who went professional last year. She is playing in Europe, though, not the WNBA. Can't recall her name right now.

 

[mred]

I know that Rutgers lost a good player who went professional last year. She is playing in Europe, though, not the WNBA. Can't recall her name right now.

Rutgers star Epiphanny Prince will skip senior season to play in Europe | Rutgers Women's Basketball - - Rutgers Women's Basketball - NJ.com

 

[Cypwr]

I think Parker left early from Tenn. for the WNBA.

Add that she had graduated too.

 

[jtm]

I think Candice graduated and that is why she could leave after her junior year

 

[Kitkat]

Rutgers star Epiphanny Prince will skip senior season to play in Europe | Rutgers Women's Basketball - - Rutgers Women's Basketball - NJ.com

well, thanks, I was googling Tiffany and of course got no place.

 

[mred]

I first googled Cappie Pondexter, but that was the wrong Rutgers star. Prince was notable for scoring 100 points in a high school game.

 

[Dryburn]

Thanks. I was just curious. Seems like there are a lot of good players that stay all four years, and I was wondering why. I realize there are not as many teams in the WNBA, and thus not as many opportunities, but I was just wondering if there was something else that made them stay.

 

[Kitkat]

Thanks. I was just curious. Seems like there are a lot of good players that stay all four years, and I was wondering why. I realize there are not as many teams in the WNBA, and thus not as many opportunities, but I was just wondering if there was something else that made them stay.

Well, that nearly all of the women stars stay is one of the reasons I love the women's game. The players value their education. Other reasons: they don't flunk out, don't end up on police blotters, appreciate us their fans, are good role models for those of us with daughters, nieces, etc., and so on. Not knocking my own sex, and most of the men players are fine, but just citing some key points about the women's game that I find very positive, at least as it is played here.

 

[mred]

Thanks. I was just curious. Seems like there are a lot of good players that stay all four years, and I was wondering why. I realize there are not as many teams in the WNBA, and thus not as many opportunities, but I was just wondering if there was something else that made them stay.

Money. Average rookie salary in the WNBA is less than $40,000. Great for 3-4 months work, but it's not going to make anyone rich. A college scholarship is worth $20k or so per year depending on the school.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Add that she had graduated too.

That is another nice distinction between the gals and the guys.

 

[theshadow]

Money. Average rookie salary in the WNBA is less than $40,000. Great for 3-4 months work, but it's not going to make anyone rich. A college scholarship is worth $20k or so per year depending on the school.

Some of them are better off playing overseas. WNBA is in the summer, and then they can go to Europe and make bank during the winter.

From an ESPN article a couple of years ago: "[Sue] Bird, born and raised on Long Island, played under an Israeli passport this winter for a team in suburban Moscow where she earned almost four times her $93,000 annual salary with the WNBA. Taurasi, who grew up in California, played under an Italian passport and earned roughly 10 times as much as the $49,000 her WNBA Phoenix Mercury will pay her this season."

ESPN.com - E-ticket: Rolling in Rubles

 

[Kitkat]

Yes, and they get a kind of education, too, with all that exposure to foreign culture or in some cases cultures. If you knew Brittany Wilkins when she played here and followed her basketball career after she graduated, you would know that she has played in a number of countries--Europe, both western and eastern, Turkey, and briefly in Australia. I have no idea how she did or does financially, but she is learning a lot about foreign food, customs, clothing, politics, language, etc., maybe without even consciously trying to do so. Not a bad life for a young and curious single woman.

 

[cyclone13]

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From an ESPN article a couple of years ago: "[Sue] Bird, born and raised on Long Island, played under an Israeli passport this winter for a team in suburban Moscow where she earned almost four times her $93,000 annual salary with the WNBA. Taurasi, who grew up in California, played under an Italian passport and earned roughly 10 times as much as the $49,000 her WNBA Phoenix Mercury will pay her this season."

ESPN.com - E-ticket: Rolling in Rubles[/QUOTE]

According to AskMen magazine, WNBA max salary is 87k. Not a big difference with 93k. The article also emphasized the difference between WNBA and NBA.

Salaries for women in sports - AskMen.com

Oh yeah, don't forget that Bird and Taurasi are considered top stars. According to the WNBA's CBA: 2010 rookies payscale is as followsicks 1-4: 46k, 5-8: 42k and remaining 1st rd picks: 38k. 2nd rounder salary would be 36k and 3rd rounder would be 36k. Their salary gradually will increase to 51k, 47 and 42k respectively in their 3rd year/.

 

[theshadow]

From an ESPN article a couple of years ago: "[Sue] Bird, born and raised on Long Island, played under an Israeli passport this winter for a team in suburban Moscow where she earned almost four times her $93,000 annual salary with the WNBA. Taurasi, who grew up in California, played under an Italian passport and earned roughly 10 times as much as the $49,000 her WNBA Phoenix Mercury will pay her this season."
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According to AskMen magazine, WNBA max salary is 87k. Not a big difference with 93k.

Read the first part closer. She didn't make 93K in Russia. She made four times that -- so roughly 372K. That is a BIG difference.

 

[tigershoops31]

well, thanks, I was googling Tiffany and of course got no place.

Hopefully you at least got to rock out to some "I think we're along now" :wink:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826PTEuHKhE]YouTube - Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now[/ame]

 

[coachdags]

I was just wondering about something, and am too lazy and busy to do the research myself, when I am sure some of you on here can answer the question.

Do any women players in college leave early for the WNBA? Do the same rules apply to them as do guys leaving for the NBA? Just wondered.

The WNBA "requires players to be at least 22, to have completed their college eligibility, to have graduated from a four-year college or to be four years removed from high school".....