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Natalie Esquire and Callie Lawson-Freeman react to the news that the WNBA is investigating the Las Vegas Aces' tourism sponsorship by the city of Las Vegas, arguing that it creates some bad optics for the league. #NBCSports #OnHerTurf #Aces #WNBA
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  • @AprilRoxStudios
    @AprilRoxStudiosАй бұрын

    WNBA needs new management that supports and promotes all of their players fairly!

  • @brandygates6583

    @brandygates6583

    Ай бұрын

    They need NEW MANAGEMENT & marketing team!

  • @user-dy2il6cu4b

    @user-dy2il6cu4b

    13 күн бұрын

    Yes

  • @claudus12
    @claudus12Ай бұрын

    The commissioner needs to go

  • @jessiecoastaliving

    @jessiecoastaliving

    Ай бұрын

    Yea I don’t like her. She doesn’t value the players.

  • @essence2302

    @essence2302

    29 күн бұрын

    ASAP

  • @RelojoAsenime
    @RelojoAsenimeАй бұрын

    There definitely needs to be more transparency. If the Commissioner can't make that happen, then she needs to step down.

  • @mr6688
    @mr6688Ай бұрын

    The WNBA needs to focus on stuff that matters, like better officiating! The WNBA is always shooting themselves in the foot!

  • @Michael-rr4ii

    @Michael-rr4ii

    26 күн бұрын

    Facts.

  • @Redridge07
    @Redridge07Ай бұрын

    I have said that the League Commissioner needs to be fired.

  • @brandygates6583

    @brandygates6583

    Ай бұрын

    Agreed!

  • @mr6688

    @mr6688

    Ай бұрын

    She horrible.

  • @Patchwork85

    @Patchwork85

    Ай бұрын

    Quickly!

  • @jay5756
    @jay5756Ай бұрын

    Fire the commissioner!

  • @paulharbron8439
    @paulharbron8439Ай бұрын

    We have NIL in college, but they are investigating a WNBA team because some women who win are getting some sponser money? This has to be scorned women hating on other women. My lord

  • @natfluential

    @natfluential

    Ай бұрын

    It’s more likely cheap owners complaining. No other players would be upset by something like this.

  • @carlosrossi9201

    @carlosrossi9201

    Ай бұрын

    Women hating on women. This league will never learn.

  • @natfluential

    @natfluential

    Ай бұрын

    @@carlosrossi9201 who are the women hating here?

  • @darrickbrown88

    @darrickbrown88

    29 күн бұрын

    "scorned women" are not investigating a WNBA team, WNBA higher ups are. I'm nearly certain you know at least that much. If you must reach with a false narrative, make it an original one.

  • @colleenposadas8415

    @colleenposadas8415

    26 күн бұрын

    Any functional brain cells here? Huge sports gambling state throwing over a million dollars at a sports team? Hmm what could go wrong?

  • @byronkeith8490
    @byronkeith8490Ай бұрын

    WNBA is tripping there fucking their league up😅

  • @Smackwater587
    @Smackwater587Ай бұрын

    Leave it alone!!!!!! These guys do so much for Vegas!!!! ❤

  • @kellywilson5275
    @kellywilson527525 күн бұрын

    Caitlin Clark catching strays for existing 😂😂😂

  • @AndreaW-jh5pb
    @AndreaW-jh5pbАй бұрын

    Gurl people are hating on the Aces because they are the team people are jealous of. Hates want to hate

  • @user-dy2il6cu4b

    @user-dy2il6cu4b

    13 күн бұрын

    I don’t think none of the players are jealous like people keep stating. They are just ballin and if you can’t stand heat then get out of the kitchen. Some white Congress man said in a post that he was going to contact the WNBA about hard fouls. He needs to worry about what’s going on in Washington DC. That video is some where on KZread.

  • @vickimainard6048
    @vickimainard6048Ай бұрын

    The WNBA just don't like the aces and fact they are successful and winning and doing things to help their team get ahead. If this was any other team. The WNBA would be not doing a thing.

  • @marcdaddy33

    @marcdaddy33

    Ай бұрын

    Can you explain why the WNBA would have issues with the Aces? I don't know the ins and outs of the league. All is I know is that Tom Brady has partila ownership of the Aces.

  • @brandonleemoss

    @brandonleemoss

    Ай бұрын

    If it was Indiana they would be celebrating 🥳🎉

  • @KyndallNicolee

    @KyndallNicolee

    Ай бұрын

    They don’t like the fact that the Aces keep winning despite the W standing in their way

  • @donaldtillman4351
    @donaldtillman4351Ай бұрын

    If one player would have received the whole sponsorship and gave it to their teammates then that would be their choice

  • @quarantinetheater5612

    @quarantinetheater5612

    Ай бұрын

    If you give it to one player it would be the same as giving it to the team to disperse. Which is the point that it now becomes part of their salary. They have a negotiated salary in their contract that cant be altered(up or down) by anyone including third parties.

  • @donaldtillman4351

    @donaldtillman4351

    Ай бұрын

    @quarantinetheater5612 LOL funny because they can get shoe contracts. So it's not what you just described

  • @quarantinetheater5612

    @quarantinetheater5612

    Ай бұрын

    @@donaldtillman4351 of course it is. A shoe contract is an individual deal. A team sponsor is nothing more than a salary jump.

  • @natfluential

    @natfluential

    Ай бұрын

    ⁠@@quarantinetheater5612 a salary is paid by your employer. A sponsorship is not a part of their salary and is entirely permissible.

  • @quarantinetheater5612

    @quarantinetheater5612

    Ай бұрын

    @@natfluential they are sponsoring the team not the athletes. That is nothing more than revenue disguised as a sponsorship. If the athlete leaves the team they lose the sponsorship. A new player arrives and they automatically receive the sponsorship. It would be profit sharing. These are the very things that the collective bargaining was there to prevent. Teams finding loopholes in the salary cap to buy the best players.

  • @nyceone43
    @nyceone43Ай бұрын

    If the Dallas Cowboys decided that instead of paying the luxury tax, they would stay under the salary cap and have the tax payer cover the difference, that would not only be against the rules, but corruption.

  • @natfluential

    @natfluential

    Ай бұрын

    Except your analogy creates facts that aren’t present here. Vegas (not the Aces) decided that it wants to sponsor each player on the Aces which is wholly permissible under the CBA.

  • @neilkokemuller7841
    @neilkokemuller7841Ай бұрын

    You asked them for a comment right away? Maybe they hadn't had a chance to discuss and contemplate the issue at that point.

  • @shereeross4049
    @shereeross4049Ай бұрын

    Commissioner must be mad she didn't get her cut

  • @bcos7328
    @bcos7328Ай бұрын

    W needs to investigate themselves

  • @juanmachado1844
    @juanmachado1844Ай бұрын

    Always can count on Nat and Callie on reporting on my fave team Aces. The League needs to take a chill pill.

  • @natfluential

    @natfluential

    Ай бұрын

    🙏🏾

  • @donaldtillman4351
    @donaldtillman4351Ай бұрын

    Why can't this league allow a sponsorship that any city in the league can do the same thing for their team? Like we don't believe that our players deserve these sponsorships

  • @vincentwilliams2314

    @vincentwilliams2314

    Ай бұрын

    But the city isn’t paying the team they are paying the players of the team .

  • @politicallil7060

    @politicallil7060

    Ай бұрын

    Exactly it's a challenge any city can do it every place on this nation has tourism 😊

  • @quarantinetheater5612

    @quarantinetheater5612

    Ай бұрын

    It's just to keep the salary cap fair. The cap was put into place so small market teams wouldn't be at a disadvantage for things just like this. Now if Vegas wants to sponsor the entire WNBA then it would be fair bc no single team would have an advantage

  • @vincentwilliams2314

    @vincentwilliams2314

    Ай бұрын

    @@quarantinetheater5612 exactly that’s All it is . Its like double dipping . You sign to play basketball for Vegas then Vegas pays you for pretty much being on the team .

  • @quarantinetheater5612

    @quarantinetheater5612

    Ай бұрын

    @@vincentwilliams2314 It's definitely not permissible. Again, the owner of th team could own a big business...or even just collude with a big business....and use that to pay their players higher than any other team in the league. If the sponsorship is for the team then it's team revenue and subjected to the salary cap if dispersed to players.

  • @leeboy7139
    @leeboy713912 күн бұрын

    The crabs in a bucket mentality in the WNBA is ridiculously funny.

  • @charliemirus4124
    @charliemirus4124Ай бұрын

    The issue is the Sponsorship can come across as an additional salary. All it takes is the team to funnel money through the “Tourism Board” and the Salary Cap is circumvented. I don’t like it, but it’s can be the beginning of something that can lead to significant competitive imbalance if the next time Free Agency rolls around players start to “count on” such a bonus/sponsorship.

  • @natfluential

    @natfluential

    Ай бұрын

    It’s not additional salary. It’s a sponsorship and players gets sponsorships all the time and Vegas does this for other athletes in Las Vegas. They are paying it. The Aces aren’t funneling any money.

  • @ghostnik

    @ghostnik

    19 күн бұрын

    ​@@natfluentialyeah I agree. If the sponsors want to give money to the players then the league can't say they can't. It's nonsense.

  • @neilkokemuller7841
    @neilkokemuller7841Ай бұрын

    The bad optics are the clear violation of the collective bargaining agreement. This isn't just a WNBA consideration. There's a reason this hasn't happened before. Salary caps in pro sports are designed to promote parity (so small-town teams can compete with large-market teams). The notion of city governments sponsoring (pay for play) local teams would open a huge can of worms that impacts every major professional sport.

  • @politicallil7060

    @politicallil7060

    Ай бұрын

    Nonsense sponsorship isn't against any bargaining agreement no more than merchandising. These are individual sponsorships as a result of the team members name, image and likeness. Now we gonna stop NIL. Miss me with that parity cry it's no parity in the league when it comes to Princess Clark and her charter flights and no cry when Fever is hogging up the national TV broadcast revenue is it?

  • @quarantinetheater5612

    @quarantinetheater5612

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@politicallil7060 It would essentially change their salary cap. The team can say...we can only pay you 75K bc thats all we have under the cap but the city will also pay you another 25k. It would become pRT OF their baseline salary as opposed to any kind of separate marketing deal between an individual and a business..

  • @neilkokemuller7841

    @neilkokemuller7841

    Ай бұрын

    @@politicallil7060 Calling something a "sponsorship" doesn't make it so. Regardless, I don't think you understand the implications. If this stands, you don't think a "collective" is going to up the ante in Indy to attract start talent this offseason. I don't think you understand the purpose of salary caps or the meaning of competitive parity. Miss me with your Cait hate.

  • @shonp3761

    @shonp3761

    Ай бұрын

    @@neilkokemuller7841 Wrong and loud. If that was the case any agent deals would then need to be investigated. It has absolutely nothing to do with the salary cap, nor should it. If a "collective" rises up, so be it, but it shouldnt have ish to do with this. Each agent had to present the deal to each player and they had to accept it. GTFOH. The bad optics are telling a team they cannot get their own charter flights as it would be an unfair advantage, yet the WNBA supplies only 2 teams with charter flights and that is fine. Poeple in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. They need to get right before pointing fingers.

  • @neilkokemuller7841

    @neilkokemuller7841

    Ай бұрын

    @@shonp3761 This is wrong. If this goes through, you don't think the sports teams in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles are going to be licking their chops.

  • @7damon8ietheredge54
    @7damon8ietheredge5426 күн бұрын

    cities should not be playing players, thats wild

  • @Smackwater587
    @Smackwater587Ай бұрын

    Aren't the Aces ambassadors? This city has the money. Sheesh!!!! Go WNBA!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @sterlingsanders4978
    @sterlingsanders497820 күн бұрын

    Not only does the commissioner for the wnba needs to be evaluated but all of the officials that’s in power in the wnba needs to evaluated. Due to all of mishandling of sponsorship to the aces,not being able to see games, charter flights. On and on and on. There’s too many instances where the W is hurting there own brand.

  • @jgomez5963
    @jgomez5963Ай бұрын

    The reason they are investigating because it gives them an unfair advantage to attract free agents and allows them to go over the cap in others ways. And again I can’t stand that voice If I was the judge I would not take her seriously 😂

  • @marcdaddy33
    @marcdaddy33Ай бұрын

    Wow. NBA and NFL players would have been fined for those comments.

  • @UncleOodoo
    @UncleOodoo26 күн бұрын

    CP3 needs to replace Cathy E...... the W this season looks horrible.... the league office, not the players......

  • @bpraise517
    @bpraise517Ай бұрын

    Its just an Endorsement deal...move on...💪🏾😎🔥

  • @bcos7328
    @bcos7328Ай бұрын

    Nite Nite Liberty..

  • @deannabaker-halliburton7219
    @deannabaker-halliburton7219Ай бұрын

    Excellent points….all teams should equally have chartered flights…..the league needs to get it together. They are bumbling opportunities. Kudos to the players and how they are bringing awareness to these issues

  • @darrickbrown88
    @darrickbrown8829 күн бұрын

    The W has become so accustomed to Ls that wins feel foreign to it's system so it actively rejects them

  • @hannahmoore14
    @hannahmoore14Ай бұрын

    I’m hoping the investigation is just to placate some of the other owners, but the WNBA really should have gone about this differently. Like you said, inquiry would be a better term to use! I think there’s a lot more growing pains at the WNBA then they’re saying. It’s a big transition that the league is going through, and I’m willing to give some grace to the higher ups. Rome wasn’t built in one day.

  • @n.t.8799
    @n.t.87994 күн бұрын

    The issue is that this action has effectively increased the Aces' salary cap, giving them an unfair advantage. It may attract future players to join the Aces with the promise of an additional $100,000 on top of their salary.

  • @dapopebfrank2265
    @dapopebfrank2265Ай бұрын

    It's a shame a lot of women don't get simple things

  • @meganharmon2923
    @meganharmon2923Ай бұрын

    The W is uncomfortable with this because it’s causing the rest of the league cities to rise up and take care of their teams. There’s nothing nefarious here. However, do I think if they were a losing program, would they still get this offer? No, prob not. That’s why it’s advantageous for the Aces program AND the city of Las Vegas.

  • @natfluential

    @natfluential

    Ай бұрын

    That’s always the case in any league. When you win, more money comes in.

  • @GrahamCStrouse

    @GrahamCStrouse

    22 күн бұрын

    If you believe that you’ve been hittin’ the pipe too hard. This is a sleazy way around the salary cap that only works in Vegas because there’s no much shady money.

  • @goldeye3901
    @goldeye3901Ай бұрын

    WNBA would have been okay if the Fever had received it for little Miss America Clark everyone would be saying that so nice she's deserves it because she the best ever ever to play with no rings

  • @brandonleemoss

    @brandonleemoss

    Ай бұрын

    EXACTLY 💯🎉

  • @colleenposadas8415

    @colleenposadas8415

    26 күн бұрын

    You talk like a baby

  • @TheeEgyptianQueen

    @TheeEgyptianQueen

    8 күн бұрын

    ​@@colleenposadas8415Okay white girl.

  • @doitall36
    @doitall3621 күн бұрын

    THESE PEOPLE SOUND LIKE THE NCAA POLICING SOMEONE BUYING THE PLAYERS A JERSEY

  • @Smackwater587
    @Smackwater587Ай бұрын

    All players in the WNBA deserve attention. They make little money!!!! NBA, hello?

  • @GregCox1552
    @GregCox155214 күн бұрын

    you investigate because you don't want to get caught if something is eyed, and they look like they are covering up.

  • @Remy2947
    @Remy294729 күн бұрын

    I cant finish watching this. Her (the lawyer) voice combined with the bad attitude and rudeness is a big NO for me. Shes gonna cost yall views for sure.

  • @Dre51255
    @Dre51255Ай бұрын

    No wonder Candace retired

  • @shereeross4049

    @shereeross4049

    Ай бұрын

    Her knees gone plus her time up

  • @dapopebfrank2265
    @dapopebfrank2265Ай бұрын

    The only ones complaining about charter flights is the Caitlin Clark haters

  • @colleenposadas8415
    @colleenposadas841526 күн бұрын

    Always trying to put it on Clark. Pathetic.

  • @walterhunter3353
    @walterhunter3353Ай бұрын

    Do you notice NBC thumbnail put A’ja Wilson’s face on this negative story

  • @natfluential

    @natfluential

    Ай бұрын

    Are you insane? This video is defending the champs not disparaging them. The league is literally being called out here. And A’ja is the face of the Aces. Need y’all to exhibit some common sense here.

  • @tinabayne9377
    @tinabayne937720 күн бұрын

    They the W need to investigate all these cheap shots...given the W a bad rap

  • @kenosourball6124
    @kenosourball612412 күн бұрын

    No one is upset with Clark and her millios so whats the real problem

  • @ericlane659
    @ericlane6598 күн бұрын

    The Las Vegas Tourism Authority is funded by tax payers. Tax payers should not be providing bonuses for private industry employees. The Aces need to get THEIR money up, and not be incentived by public funds.

  • @MrsKKuz
    @MrsKKuz29 күн бұрын

    As a Sky fan, MAYBE distributing the money IN the team locker room, to the TEAM, then SPLASH it all over media. Just saying.

  • @markblain8438
    @markblain843825 күн бұрын

    The answer is simple. Give Rey player on every team 100000

  • @foo2244
    @foo2244Ай бұрын

    Everybody knows the Aces & Liberty are paying the players under the table and that's why we have 2 super teams and everyone else Parity >>> Super teams

  • @natfluential

    @natfluential

    Ай бұрын

    The Aces have drafted their core except for Chelsea who they traded for.

  • @LaidbackAF
    @LaidbackAFАй бұрын

    I guess it’s true what they say, good or bad publicity is good PR lmfao

  • @Soy-Hammad2649
    @Soy-Hammad2649Ай бұрын

    Let them earn some money

  • @user-dy2il6cu4b
    @user-dy2il6cu4b13 күн бұрын

    They are a winning team and they were winning before the sponsorship. Yes it’s seem to be full of hater aide

  • @vincentwilliams2314
    @vincentwilliams2314Ай бұрын

    It makes sense . It’s pretty much under the table money and tampering

  • @jinx7609

    @jinx7609

    Ай бұрын

    But it’s not against the Players Bargaining Agreement. It’s not against the rules.

  • @vincentwilliams2314

    @vincentwilliams2314

    Ай бұрын

    @@jinx7609 it might be because what are the stipulations. Does the player lose that sponsorship if they get traded to a different team . Is the sponsorship solely because that player is on the team .

  • @politicallil7060

    @politicallil7060

    Ай бұрын

    FOH if Indiana tourism has come up with the idea you would have called it the best thing that ever happened. Where the national TV broadcast parity? Tampering with fair national coverage of all the leagues teams broadcasting is equal to revenue for that team.

  • @brandonleemoss

    @brandonleemoss

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@politicallil7060EXACTLY 💯

  • @natfluential

    @natfluential

    Ай бұрын

    @@vincentwilliams2314 no it’s not. The league is investigating based on the spirit of the CBA not the written words of the CBA. There is no violation by the letter of the CBA.

  • @antnam4406
    @antnam4406Ай бұрын

    MADNESS

  • @tyronedelk5702
    @tyronedelk5702Ай бұрын

    WNBA is poor management!!!! This is to make CC look good

  • @BestofItMoviedoc

    @BestofItMoviedoc

    27 күн бұрын

    This comment makes you look extremely ignorant. Caitlin Clark has nothing to do with this.

  • @n.t.8799
    @n.t.87994 күн бұрын

    The Ajax player, regardless of their name, whose voice suggests the use of testosterone or other performance-enhancing drugs should be drug tested. Drug testing ought to be mandatory in this league. Additionally, Mr. Britt Griner should be tested too.

  • @aaronfleming4176
    @aaronfleming417616 күн бұрын

    Please don't shoot yourself in the foot

  • @TUBE-BONTONSONN-sport-vt9zw
    @TUBE-BONTONSONN-sport-vt9zwАй бұрын

    One word for you ,skins!! Skins gave that money

  • @dism1424
    @dism1424Ай бұрын

    Her voice is like nails on a chalkboard

  • @jgomez5963
    @jgomez5963Ай бұрын

    Never would hire her as my lawyer talking like the cast of SNL on Californians

  • @natfluential

    @natfluential

    Ай бұрын

    You wouldn’t be able to afford my rates. My clients have been very pleased with my services lol

  • @jgomez5963

    @jgomez5963

    Ай бұрын

    @@natfluential Hey Jabba The Hut I would never spend a dime to have you represent me 🤣

  • @bcos7328
    @bcos7328Ай бұрын

    Alleged astute minds in the W

  • @Smackwater587
    @Smackwater587Ай бұрын

    Becky deserves a lot, too! Aces are winners!!! ❤❤❤❤

  • @tinabayne9377
    @tinabayne937720 күн бұрын

    Investigate the violence in the game..it's the new WWF

  • @7damon8ietheredge54
    @7damon8ietheredge5426 күн бұрын

    the hate on Caitlin clark is crazy. she has nothing to do with this subject. everybody not happy about that women and thats sad. women dont support other women

  • @bcos7328
    @bcos7328Ай бұрын

    CC $28 million

  • @colleenposadas8415

    @colleenposadas8415

    26 күн бұрын

    She's got other Deals too.

  • @colleenposadas8415

    @colleenposadas8415

    26 күн бұрын

    As do other players.

  • @alleng012985
    @alleng012985Ай бұрын

    They were almost mobbing Caitlyn Clark in the Dallas airport. Wasn't nobody mobbing what's her name's size 14s at no airport. WTF 🤣🤣🤣

  • @paulharbron8439

    @paulharbron8439

    Ай бұрын

    Just go somewhere else to talk.

  • @goldeye3901

    @goldeye3901

    Ай бұрын

    Because she not little Miss America Clark n most of us know why,but Miss size 14 shoe Aja Willson is the best player in the league 😂

  • @WhoisDJNox

    @WhoisDJNox

    Ай бұрын

    Were you there at the airport with 2x Champion, MVP, and NY Times Best Seller?

  • @mattyboy8830

    @mattyboy8830

    Ай бұрын

    Size 14s is crazy💀💀

  • @alleng012985

    @alleng012985

    Ай бұрын

    @@mattyboy8830 🤣🤣🤣

  • @PetrodollarDealEndedSoWakeUp
    @PetrodollarDealEndedSoWakeUp11 күн бұрын

    If one of the paid players leave… does each new Vegas player get the same money? Is that corruption? Competitive advantage? These are the astute questions

  • @williamsmith8017
    @williamsmith801729 күн бұрын

    No need to investigate. The tax paying people of Las Vegas wanted to pay the Aces 100,000 per player.

  • @colleenposadas8415

    @colleenposadas8415

    26 күн бұрын

    Did they?

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