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Steph Curry is 1 of the astir outspoken NBA stars erstwhile it comes to treatment astir closing the wage spread for WNBA players, with Angel Reese precocious revealing she can't adjacent screen her mundane bills connected her existent wage.
During the lukewarm up for the WNBA All-Star crippled past weekend, players including Reese wore all-black t-shirts with the connection 'pay america what you beryllium us'.
Players and the national are stuck successful negotiations implicit just wage for WNBA players.
Under the existent WNBA Collective Bargaining Agreement, players are entitled to 25 per cent of profits, truthful agelong arsenic the league meets its gross targets each year.
According to IndyStar, 1 subordinate per squad tin gain up to $250,000 per year, with rookie contracts starting astatine $72,000.
But this is successful stark opposition to the NBA, wherever players receive 50 per cent of each gross generated careless of targets.
Last year, 23-year-old Reese told an Instagram unrecorded watercourse that her $73,000 wage did not screen her $96,000-per-year rent.
Angel Reese and Brittney Sykes are conscionable 2 of the players campaigning for amended pay. (Image: Steph Chambers / Staff via Getty)
On ESPN she said: "I conscionable anticipation y’all cognize the WNBA don’t wage my bills astatine all.
“I don’t adjacent deliberation that pays 1 of my bills, [the salary] isn't capable to wage my car note, I wouldn’t adjacent beryllium capable to eat, I wouldn’t beryllium capable to live.
"I'm surviving beyond my means!"
Through different endorsements and a spot successful the Unrivaled three-on-three league, Reese earns a six-figure sum, which allows her to spend her rent.
Steph Curry has been an advocator for person wage betwixt the men's and women's games. (Image: Tim Warner / Stringer via Getty Images)
What did Curry say?
Golden State Warriors icon Curry endorsed the closing of the wage spread connected Women's Equality Day successful 2018.
He wrote successful the Players’ Tribune: “I deliberation it’s important that we each travel unneurotic to fig retired however we tin marque that possible, arsenic soon arsenic possible.
“Not conscionable arsenic ‘fathers of daughters,’ oregon for those sorts of reasons.
"And not conscionable connected Women’s Equality Day. Every time – that’s erstwhile we request to beryllium moving to adjacent the wage spread successful this country.
"Because each time is erstwhile the wage spread is affecting women. And each time is erstwhile the wage spread is sending the incorrect connection to women astir who they are, and however they’re valued, and what they tin oregon cannot become.”
Curry said that helium had been heavy influenced by his mum Sonya and woman Ayesha.
He is 1 of the top players successful the satellite and has won 4 NBA Championship titles with the Warriors.
The 37-year-old was besides named arsenic MVP successful some 2015 and 2016, earlier winning an Olympic golden medal successful 2024.
