Las Vegas Aces News - WNBA (2024)

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How much are the WNBA aces worth? ›

The Las Vegas Aces are the most valuable franchise in the WNBA. The back-to-back defending champions are valued at $140 million, according to a list compiled by the digital media platform Sportico. That's well above the $97 million league average.

The controversial $100,000 per year NIL deals between players on the WNBA's Las Vegas Aces' and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority includes language that specifically nullifies the arrangement in the event it is found to violate the WNBA's collective bargaining agreement.

The reigning champs' accomplishment comes on the heels of an already-historic season for the league. For the first time in league history, a WNBA team has sold out all of its regular-season home games.

Pocket Aces are the best possible starting hand in a game of Texas Hold'em. While you're not going to automatically win the pot just because you picked up pocket aces, the hand does have around an 85 percent chance of winning head-to-head against a random two-card hand.

The Aces brought in $17.8 million in revenue last year and are valued at $140 million. The Aces made WNBA history before the 2024 season as they became the first team to ever sell out its entire season ticket packages for the year. The team ended up selling all of the 8,600 packages available.

The Atlanta Dream is the least-valued franchise in the WNBA, according to recent data from Sportico. By the numbers: The Dream is valued at $55 million, putting them below every other team in the league. The team made $8.8 million in revenue in 2023.

Half of the players on the Aces roster make less than $100,000 each season, according to Sportrac. Colson's base salary is $76,535, while rookie Kate Martin's is $67,249 this year. The team's two highest paid players have a salary of $200,000.

NIL is short for "name, image and likeness." Basically, a student athlete being able to sign NIL deals means they are able to enter into contracts to endorse products and make money off their personal brand. They can do commercials for TV, post branded ads on their social media channels and have companies do the same.

The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is investigating a sponsorship deal that would see each Las Vegas Aces player receive US$100,000 for the current campaign and in 2025. The player bonuses are being issued by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, which announced the arrangement on 17th May.

NIL allows college and even high school students to make money by using their name, image, or likeness to advertise a host of products. The ability to bring in money on things like autographs and ads goes back to a 2021 Supreme Court ruling allowing for the practice.

Is the WNBA still losing money? ›

National Basketball Association (NBA) commissioner Adam Silver said in 2018 that the WNBA had lost an average of more than US$10 million annually since its founding and The Washington Post has now reported that the league and its teams are expected to lose around US$50 million in 2024 – a five-fold increase on the ...

Former NBA commissioner David Stern founded the WNBA in the spring of 1996. The first season began a year later with the league consisting of 12 teams based in the United States. However, over the next 25 years, the league has not been profitable.

She told The Athletic that the value of the WNBA's 12 individual teams plus the league itself is worth over $1 billion. Though that method of valuation is unusual in comparison to how other professional sports leagues conduct their valuations, it also places the average value of a WNBA team at more than $43.75 million.

There are four aces (H, D, S and C) out of 52 cards. Assuming the card is drawn at random (no peeking!), the probability of drawing an ace is 4/52 = 1/13.

The highest field goal percentage in WNBA history (minimum 400 field goals) is 59.9 percent by Sylvia Fowles (USA) while playing for the Minnesota Lynx and Chicago Sky (both USA) from 2008 to 2022. Fowles made 2,531 of 4,228 field goal attempts during her career.

The most points scored in a Women's National Basketball Association game is 127 by the Phoenix Mercury (USA) in a 127-124 victory over the Minnesota Lynx (USA) on 24 July 2010.