Before we launch a GoFundMe page for Caitlin Clark, who will make a comparatively paltry $76,535 as a WNBA rookie this season, consider that the basketball phenom is poised to sign an eight-figure endorsement deal with Nike that will include her own signature shoe.

Caitlin Clark will be just fine.

It’s the other women’s basketball players we should be worried about.

Remember, the WNBA is the same league that features Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner, who in 2022, spent nearly 300 days in a Russian jail after being wrongfully detained on a trumped-up drug smuggling charge.

The only reason Griner was even in Russia was because she couldn’t make enough money playing the game she loves in her own country — and she is one of the higher paid players.

How bad is the WNBA’s starting salary?

Yahoo Sports just posted a job on LinkedIn that pays almost as much, $73,000 to start, to post........

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