Professional Basketball Comparisons- NBA and WNBA

1. Inequalities Between Men
and Women in Basketball
Nicholas Todd Tinsley
AP English Language and Composition
Mr. Paul W. Hankins

2. Essential Question
• Of all the stats in basketball, gross earnings is one stat that
professional basketball players do not have in common, why is
that?

3. NBA and WNBA
• The NBA, or National Basketball Association, is a professional
basketball league for male athletes
• Goal to win a championship
• The WNBA, or Women’s National Basketball Association, is
professional basketball league for female athletes
• Goal to win a championship
• Entertainment

4. Logos

5. Amateur and Professional
• Amateurs play for the enjoyment of the game because they cannot
receive any kind of monetary prize
• If amateurs accept any kind of prize or payment they become ineligible,
and the players are no longer considered amateurs
• This level of play is usually from the time one begins playing until after
college if they make it that far
• Professionals still play basketball for the enjoyment of the game, but
they also receive a gain as far as money, endorsements, and/or
attributes
• Professionals cannot become ineligible by receiving a monetary prize
• This presentation is going to discuss professionals in the NBA and WNBA
up to this date

6. Equal or Unequal?
• Are women’s sports treated less equal than male’s sports?
• Would you rather watch a NBA game or a WNBA game?
• Both male and female professional basketball players accomplish
the same things
• They can both shoot
• They can both dribble
• They can both pass

7. Statistics- WNBA Team
• The number one team in the Western Conference of the Women’s
National Basketball Association is the Minnesota Lynx
• The Lynx are number one in their conference in two statistics and
third in two other statistics
• They average 83 points per game (first), 37 rebounds per game
(third), 21 assists per game (first), and 74 points allowed per game
(third)

8. Statistics- NBA Team
• The leader of the Western Conference in the National Basketball
Association is the San Antonio Spurs
• Their record might be the best, but their statistics are not
• The Spurs are only first in one statistic, sixth in two others, and
twelfth in another
• They average 105 points per game (sixth), 43 rebounds per game
(twelfth), 25 assists per game (first), and 98 points allowed per
game (sixth)

9. Statistics- WNBA Player
• Candace Parker plays for the Los Angeles Sparks and has won MVP
(Most Valuable Player) twice in her WNBA career
• She averaged 2 blocks per game, 18 points per game, 9 rebounds
per game (she recorded eight double-doubles), and 4 assists per
game
• Candace Parker led her team in scoring, rebounding, and blocks

10. Statistics- NBA Player
• LeBron James of the Miami Heat has been named the Most
Valuable Player in the NBA four times in his career
• He is the youngest player to receive the award four times at
twenty-eight years old, and is among five total players to win the
award four times
• LeBron James averaged 27 points per game, 8 rebounds per game,
and 7 assists per game

12. Pay Discrepancy
• $105,000 and $72,000
• Bonuses for winning the WNBA Championship, MVP, Rookie of the
Year, or making the All-Star Team
• Work two jobs- “professional”
• LeBron James has a contract that guarantees him $67,000,000
• That does not include endorsements which he makes around
$40,000,000 each year

13. Awards
NBA
• MVP
• Defensive Player of the Year
• Rookie of the Year
• Most Improved Player
• Sportsmanship Award
• Sixth Man of the Year
• J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship
Award
WNBA
• MVP
• Defensive Player of the Year
• Rookie of the Year
• Most Improved Player
• Sportsmanship Award
• Sixth Woman of the Year

15. “Women’s” National Basketball Association
• Why is there the specificity between the National Basketball
Association and the “Women’s” National Basketball Association?

16. Accomplishments
• Both leagues accomplish the same things
• The goals of the players and teams is to win games no matter
what it takes
• Fixed entertainment for the public
• Behind the scenes stuff?

17. How to Bring About Equality
• One league with sexes still separated
• CO-ED
• Doubleheaders

18. 5 Points to Take Away
• Women are not paid as much as men
• It is the “Women’s” National Basketball Association
• Statistics are similar
• Awards are similar
• Accomplishments are similar

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