everything [Music] NBA versus WNBA facts that sound fake but are actually true regarding in-game dunks the shortest WNBA player to ever dunk is Candace Parker she is six feet four inches tall the shortest NBA player to ever dunk is Spud Webb who was five foot six the average g-league player makes forty thousand dollars per year in comparison WNBA players make almost three times as much with an average salary of a hundred and thirteen thousand dollars per year the Phoenix Mercury have three championships so far the Phoenix Suns have zero championships so far on May 27 2013 Brittany became the first and only player so far to dunk twice in the same WNBA game as of July 2023 there have only been a total of 33 dunks in the entire history of the WNBA the WNBA has been around since 1997 so that's roughly 26 years which equates to 1. 2 dunks per season or about one dunk every season only eight different WNBA players have ever dunked ever compared to the NBA Evan Mobley alone has 173 dunks during the 2022-2023 season the NBA as a league since 2001 averages over 8 000 dunks per season but this number has been increasing in recent years the NBA has been dunking over 11 000 dunks per season that's about three dunks per game times all 30 teams then multiply that by 82 games the NBA league average for free throws was 75. 6 percent the WNBA League average for free throws was 80.
4 percent this is not an anomaly or a one-time thing the WNBA regularly has higher free throw percentages compared to the NBA one possible factor is that the WNBA has a smaller Ball but the same exact Rim circumference as an NBA hoop a WNBA basketball is an inch smaller and two ounces lighter than an NBA basketball but they share the same exact Rim nba. com averages 91. 8 million monthly visits from fans all around the world wnba.
com averages 1. 8 million monthly visits which is to be expected the NBA is more famous than WNBA but surprisingly 62. 84 of wnba.
com users are male and only 37. 16 are female the majority of wnba. com visitors are men not women nba.
com has 70. 69 nice percent of its user base being male and only 29. 31 female which means roughly 27 million women visit nba.
com every month but on the flip side only about 800 000 women visit wnba. com the WNBA all-time scoring leader is Diana Taurasi she has 9858 points and Counting this took her 19 Seasons Wilt surpassed 10 000 points in just 236 games but no discredit to Diana that's still a pretty amazing feat and playing 19 plus seasons is no easy task what's also not easy is losing money the WNBA loses roughly 10 million dollars per year and has never been profitable as an organization if it didn't have the NBA backing it up financially and subsidizing it it would have gone out of business or forced to be bought out and merged with another League however profit and revenue are two different formulas the NBA on average generates 10 billion dollars per year the WNBA generates roughly 60 million dollars per year the average NBA player's salary is about 9. 6 million dollars the average WNBA player salary is a hundred and thirteen thousand dollars if you compare salary to revenue the average NBA player earns roughly 0.
1 percent of what the NBA generates in Revenue the average WNBA player earns roughly 0. 2 percent of what the WNBA generates in revenue from this perspective WNBA players earn twice as much compared to NBA players in regards to how much revenue they earn for their league and if we decide to compare profits to salary WNBA players by that technicality make infinitely more considering the WNBA is unprofitable after all expenses in an interview at the Washington Post Adam Silver stated that women's basketball is largely supported just in terms of demographics by older men for whatever reason who like fundamental basketball were not connecting with almost the same demographic that our players are which are women from ages 20 to 40.
