Tracey

CCU M.B.A 🤍 UNCC B.S.💚

[King Roy @RoyIsThaTruth]

Nolan Wells didn't drown. Emmett didn't whistle. Philando didn't reach for a gun. Trayvon didn't harass. Sonya Massey didn't call the police to die. Ahmaud didn't trespass. Breonna never woke up. Sean Bell didn't make it to the altar. George and Eric couldn't breathe. Rekia didn't pose a threat. Laquan was walking away. Kendrick did not roll himself up. Mike Brown was only jaywalking. Sandra Bland did not commit suicide. Botham Jean couldnt enjoy his ice cream. Tamir Rice didn't have a gun.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

FUN FACT: Tyler Perry paid for Nolan's funeral. Colin Kaepernick paid for the independent autopsy for Nolan's family. LeBron paid for the forensics of the cellphones involved in the case. I love seeing people helping others, but the fact we have to pay for justice is sickening.

[I Dissent @DissentFu]

You dont't have the right to clean water but your local pedophile has the right to make AI child sexual abuse material.

And this is exactly why laws are not morals.

[Daisy Chain Fields @daisychainfield]

✿ our 10 non-profits are starting a Daisy Chain Reaction ✿

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 Olivia Rodrigo donates $10 million to reproductive rights organizations after Trump eliminates funding.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Charlamagne tha God on Enes Kanter: “He says he’s doing all of this because he wants to protect women. How did protecting women become making yourself the main character in women’s spaces? If you have to manufacture the crisis you’re warning everybody about, you’re not raising awareness to a problem, you actually are the problem”

[zoë rose bryant @zoerosebryant]

no better representation of 2016 vs. 2026

[Hans senfuma @senfumahans]

Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity andhappiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology.

[chels @gremlingardener]

“only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money”

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I want my children and grandchildren to inherit national parks and polar bears, not data centres and dry riverbeds.

[Mari Copeny @LittleMissFlint]

Flint’s still not fixed, there are millions in this country facing a water crisis, but sure let’s do this.

[Governor Abigail Spanberger @GovernorVA]

Today, I signed the Momnibus — a package of bills to improve healthcare coverage for moms and babies.

No mother should have to fear dying from childbirth. We have the highest maternal mortality rate of any high-income country, and we know Black women are at greatest risk.

[Garrett Hickey #INVICTA @Coach_Hickey5]

Ding. Ding. Ding. It’s not the top kids that this system will fail. It’s the kids who make $500k and then $600k. They graduate, their careers sputter out and then go to get an office job and make $75k. What are they going to do then. The ncaa won’t care…

[New York Liberty @nyliberty]

Six years later, we continue to say her name: Breonna Taylor.
Rest in power, Breonna.
#SayHerName

[Coastal Women’s Basketball @CoastalWBB]

Pregame shoot around

[Coastal Women’s Basketball @CoastalWBB]

This duo 🙌

[Coastal Women’s Basketball @CoastalWBB]

Celebrating our seniors 👌

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

The crazy part, is that no matter what the WNBA does with salaries, every star college player will take a pay cut to play in the WNBA

I asked a few ADs what the going rate is for the star player on a power conference WBB team -$500k to $1.2m.

And, you are always a free agent with the portal. You get your room and board paid for. And you can get a good education if you work at it.

It’s all subsidized by donors and shared school revenues. Which makes it more similar to Europe, where companies subsidize teams , than to the WNBA

In the NBA, a team can’t go to a sponsor and negotiate a direct payment deal for a player. In college they effectively can with NIL money. When I have written checks to IU, I knew which players were trying to get with the money (although I never tie the money to specific players. It’s up to them )

The WNBA needs to look at allowing the same thing. Let the teams go to local sponsors and work out payments to players as part of sponsorship packages.

The big name players have agents to do this. The rest make minimal amounts. With or without an agent.

Let WNBA teams pay “NIL” money to its players.

It’s counter intuitive for NBA folks, but here is the issue. WNBA teams don’t have the margin dollars from tickets, sponsors and shared revenues like tv to pay bigger salaries using their own cash flow.

With help from the league , they could create NIL deals with sponsors that go directly to the players. From the sponsors.

Make it legal. Create a cap per player, based on years of experience.

Yes, some teams will suck at it, that’s where the wnba comes in to help. They will suck at it as well for some period. But like collegiate NIL, the sponsorship packages will supplement player salaries without undermining the economics of the teams and league itself.

The next question will be competitive balance issues. The big markets can do this better. They have a great addressable market for sponsors. The wnba could require that some percentage of the NIL money deals go into a pool for a version of revenue share.

This is effectively what happens (or did ) with jersey ads. I remember advocating that the jersey ads be split with all teams, because the greatest value to sponsors comes not from local tv or games, but from national tv, playoffs and jersey sales.

This would be similar.

Obviously I’m just spitballing this , but if they came on shark tank , that’s what I would suggest !

What do you think ?

[َ @yaoillit]

Mind you this is what ai is doing to peoples homes. Some cant even let fresh air in bc the smell from the data centers is so bad. But yeah go say its creative

[espnW @espnW]

Arkansas senior Morgan Price paid homage to her AKA sorority 💗💚