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Former Seattle Storm star Gabby Williams has left the WNBA following controversial feedback she made about Caitlin Clark and the salaries in ladies’s basketball.
Williams has now moved abroad to play in Europe after Seattle was eradicated by the Las Vegas Aces within the WNBA playoffs.
The 28-year-old energy ahead, a first-round draft decide by the Chicago Sky in 2018, has joined Fenerbahce in Turkey.
It comes simply days after Williams hit out at WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert over feedback she made concerning the incomes potential for gamers within the league.
Engelbert beforehand claimed that WNBA gamers could make as much as $700,000 a 12 months, just for Williams to just lately insist: ‘That is really not true in any respect. There’s not one participant who makes that.’
Former Seattle Storm star Gabby Williams has left the WNBA to hitch Fenerbahce in Turkey
It comes simply days after the ability ahead weighed in on Caitlin Clark’s earnings energy
She added: ‘We have been promised staff advertising and marketing agreements and league advertising and marketing agreements, however they’ve fallen fairly quick.
‘So it is nonetheless not sufficient for us worldwide gamers to wish to keep right here. And that is a alternative of the gamers.
‘If I make a alternative to earn more money, no matter, after which groups are mad that I do not come again, however that is how it’s.’
One Clark fan then identified that the Indiana Fever star’s earnings had surpassed $700,000 throughout her rookie season.
That’s regardless of her base WNBA wage being simply $76,000.
Williams responded to the fan on social media, insisting that she was referring solely to WNBA pay – not cash made by way of sponsorships and different outdoors offers.
‘Clark makes $70,000 within the WNBA,’ Williams stated. ‘So I do know all these Caitlin Clark followers are like “Caitlin Clark makes $700,000”.
‘That is off of endorsements… to everybody saying go away the nation, in case you’re sad in America, I did.”’
The ahead averaged 10.3 factors, 4 rebounds and three.7 assists throughout the 2024 WNBA common season earlier than deciding to go for Turkey.
WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert claimed WNBA gamers could make as much as $700,000 a 12 months
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