Joe Rogan Experience #2539 - Protect Our Parks 17 · Aired Aug 13, 2026
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The WNBA experienced its first profitable year last year.
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The WNBA did hit a real financial milestone in 2025, generating enough profit to trigger a revenue-sharing payout to players for the first time in its history, and that's the basis for calling it the league's first profitable year. But other financial reporting on the same season describes a league still absorbing tens of millions in net losses, so calling it flatly 'profitable' glosses over which accounting measure you're using.
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Is it true that the WNBA experienced its first profitable year last year?
It leaves out the other side. The WNBA did hit a real financial milestone in 2025, generating enough profit to trigger a revenue-sharing payout to players for the first time in its history, and that's the basis for calling it the league's first profitable year. Protect Our Parks 17 said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2539 - Protect Our Parks 17, aired Aug 13, 2026, at 8:09. The supporting source is betmgm.ca, linked below.
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