Stephanie White on the officiating of Caitlin Clark:
"We have a generational talent, and a WNBA superstar, who had two cheap shots that weren't called ... Absolutely unacceptable."
"She is not called the same way everybody else is called."
So after doing a bit of research this is what I found: Project B because the league's massive liquid cash spending—estimated at $40 million to $50 million upfront to pay elite women's basketball players 1,000% market raises—perfectly mirrors the aggressive financial playbook used by Saudi-funded entities like LIV Golf. While co-founders Grady Burnett and Geoff Prentice insist they have closed an initial round funded strictly by Western venture capital, critics remain highly skeptical due to the league’s confirmed operational ties to the Saudi PIF-owned events firm, Sela. Whether the cash comes from deep-pocketed tech VCs betting on a global women’s and men's sports platform or through indirect Middle Eastern investment funds, the suspicion is smart financial intuition based on the sheer, unprecedented amount of money being burned before a single game is played.
No matter how much they try to distance themselves now, the league had a formal, confirmed partnership with Sela, a global events company owned entirely by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF). When the league first launched, co-founder Grady Burnett openly admitted to reporters that Sela was their official event partner. Even if they try to minimize it today by calling them a "vendor," having a primary operations contract with a sovereign wealth fund's subsidiary is a major, undeniable tie to Saudi Arabia.
This is a classic corporate PR pivot: they are using the fact that the partnership is currently dead to pretend it was never alive.
I would just like to know where they’re getting this amount of money✌🏻
@feverMaan@UnderdogWNBA sandy stressed that allemand would have a big role so i would expect allemand mabrey sykes sabally fagbenle but nyara is probably out for game 1
@alexaphilippou lol. i am so against this. max players should be making the max. i am already against taking a small paycut but to take this large of a paycut is disappointing to say the least