LeBron James has made feelings clear on WNBA pay gap after Angel Reese claims she can't pay bills - SPORTbible

LeBron James has already made his feelings wide connected closing the WNBA wage spread aft Angel Reese claimed she is struggling to wage bills connected her existent salary.

The immense wage quality betwixt men's and women's basketball stars deed the headlines again astatine the weekend.

During the WNBA All-Star crippled warm-ups, players including Reese wore all-black t-shirts with the connection 'pay america what you beryllium us'.

Players and the national stay stuck successful negotiations implicit a caller wage agreement.

Reese antecedently revealed successful an Instagram unrecorded watercourse that her $73,000 wage did not screen her $96,000 yearly rent.

She said that it was lone done endorsements and her spot successful the Unrivalled three-on-three league that she could spend it.

Some of the biggest NBA stars, including James and Steph Curry, person been vocal successful support of addressing the divide.

WNBA protestation (Image: Steph Chambers / Staff via Getty)

What has LeBron James said astir adjacent pay?

Back successful 2017, portion playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers, James wore a brace of achromatic shoes with the connection 'equality' written successful golden connected the heel.

It was his team's opening crippled of the play and helium made headlines pushing pushed for equality successful each forms.

In 2022, WNBA prima Brittney Griner spent the off-season playing hoops successful Russia, wherever she earned 4 times much than she did successful the USA.

Shortly after, James appeared connected speech amusement The Shop wherever helium gave his thoughts connected Griner's decision.

He said: "Unfortunately, immoderate of them, they spell implicit determination and won’t travel back.

"They’re like, 'I miss everything that they person successful America, but like, this wage rise implicit here, I’m not coming backmost implicit to this s***.'"

His enactment for women's hoops has continued to turn successful caller years.

In an interrogation to ESPN successful 2024 helium described stars similar Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark arsenic 'icons'.

LeBron James (Image: David Berding / Contributor via Getty)

"I don't deliberation there's overmuch quality betwixt the men's and women's crippled erstwhile it comes to assemblage basketball," said the Los Angeles Lakers star.

To articulation the NBA, players indispensable person either completed a twelvemonth of college, oregon person turned 19 years old.

However, the WNBA requires players to crook 22 successful the calendar twelvemonth of the draught they privation to participate to beryllium eligible.

Alternatively, players tin participate the draught if they are nary longer beryllium eligible to play assemblage basketball.

The 40-year-old said: "You're capable to physique a existent iconic bequest astatine a program.

"And that's what we each emotion astir it. That's what we each love. We emotion the girl's crippled due to the fact that of that infinitesimal you really get to spot those girls."