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NBA star calls out female players: I’m really tired of seeing female athletes complain about pay

April 5, 2021 | | Print Article

NBA star Draymond Green is calling out female athletes for more or less being all talk and no action about equal pay.

Seemingly straggling both sides of the fence, the Golden State Warriors power forward is also blaming virtue-signaling corporate America for failing to do enough to resolve a gender salary gap and apparently wants to shame them into writing some checks.

During a remote interview with NBC Sports reporter Kerith Burke that followed up a series of his tweets on the subject, Green suggested that women in sports need to change their tactics, even while acknowledging that in the current marketplace, men’s sports generate far more profit.

“I’m really tired of seeing them complain about the lack of pay, because they’re doing themselves a disservice by just complaining,” Green said about female athletes. “They’re not laying out steps that they can take to change that.

“And so, it’s coming off as a complaint because the people that can change it, they’re just going to continue to say, ‘Well, the revenue isn’t there…so if you don’t bring in the revenue, we can’t up your pay.’ They’re going to keep using that, but the reality is, as true as that is, it’s an excuse,” he added.

“Because everyone says, ‘We support women. We support women empowerment. We support women in the workplace. We do this for women. We do X for women. Blah, blah, blah. And everyone uses it to their advantage; yet these women are not using these people that are saying those very things to their advantage. So then it just becomes a complaint that falls on deaf ears,” Green continued.

Green then went on to recommend that activists and athletes call out corporations — which, according to him, just pay lip service to women empowerment — specifically for an alleged failure to put “a single penny” into the WNBA” or “towards these women athletes. But yet plastered all over your website is women empowerment…”

“Let’s not continue to toss out this battle cry…And if we’re specific in what we’re asking for, and who we’re asking for it from,, well then, let us see them publicly turn us down,” Green said.

Watch Draymond Green’s comments embedded below and form your own conclusions:

The average annual WNBA salary is reportedly about $100,000 as compared to the approximately $7 million that NBA players bank. Even with the NBA losing popularity because of its social justice advocacy and other reasons, viewership, and thus cash flow, is still significantly higher in the men’s league. The top-tier NBA players, of course, make far more than that.

In any industry, moreover, a certain level of unfairness and arbitrariness occurs when it comes to hiring, promotion, or pay. Since 1963, pay discrimination on the basis of sex has been illegal in the U.S., however.

Various researchers have challenged the gender pay gap as advanced by the left from Joe Biden on down. They say that when controlling for factors such as type of job, type of industry, experience, tenure, hours worked, and so forth, the pay gap largely disappears.

At the risk of oversimplifying, comparing the pay of a man (or woman) who works on an oil rig, for example, with a woman (or man) who shuffles papers in an office is seldom an appropriate measure.

Anti-Trump, gold medalist soccer star Megan Rapinoe recently visited the White House to lament that she is paid less than men who do the same job (even though women’s soccer is apparently far less popular than its male counterpart.)

Some social media users suggested that Draymond Green has a point. Here is a sampling:

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