The crazy part, is that no matter what the WNBA does with salaries, every star college player will take a pay cut to play in the WNBA I asked a few ADs what the going rate is for the star player on a power conference WBB team -$500k to $1.2m. And, you are always a free agent with the portal. You get your room and board paid for. And you can get a good education if you work at it. It’s all subsidized by donors and shared school revenues. Which makes it more similar to Europe, where companies subsidize teams , than to the WNBA In the NBA, a team can’t go to a sponsor and negotiate a direct payment deal for a player. In college they effectively can with NIL money. When I have written checks to IU, I knew which players were trying to get with the money (although I never tie the money to specific players. It’s up to them ) The WNBA needs to look at allowing the same thing. Let the teams go to local sponsors and work out payments to players as part of sponsorship packages. The big name players have agents to do this. The rest make minimal amounts. With or without an agent. Let WNBA teams pay “NIL” money to its players. It’s counter intuitive for NBA folks, but here is the issue. WNBA teams don’t have the margin dollars from tickets, sponsors and shared revenues like tv to pay bigger salaries using their own cash flow. With help from the league , they could create NIL deals with sponsors that go directly to the players. From the sponsors. Make it legal. Create a cap per player, based on years of experience. Yes, some teams will suck at it, that’s where the wnba comes in to help. They will suck at it as well for some period. But like collegiate NIL, the sponsorship packages will supplement player salaries without undermining the economics of the teams and league itself. The next question will be competitive balance issues. The big markets can do this better. They have a great addressable market for sponsors. The wnba could require that some percentage of the NIL money deals go into a pool for a version of revenue share. This is effectively what happens (or did ) with jersey ads. I remember advocating that the jersey ads be split with all teams, because the greatest value to sponsors comes not from local tv or games, but from national tv, playoffs and jersey sales. This would be similar. Obviously I’m just spitballing this , but if they came on shark tank , that’s what I would suggest ! What do you think ?

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If you want fades patched in NBA 2K26, here's how we do it, let's trace the problem back to its source: 1. Why are fades overpowered? Isn’t it because the shifty shooter badge allows people to fade too easily? No, a 7'4" build that can't even get shifty shooter is still great at fades, so clearly that's not the reason. 2. So are fades just naturally OP? Not exactly, but you're on to something. 3. Why do fades go in so much? When you fade, you're harder to contest, so the shot is more open. 4. But if they're harder to contest, shouldn't they also be harder to time since you're moving away from the basket? Yes, fades have inherently more difficult timing because of the movement. 5. Then why are people still making them at such high rates? Because rhythm shooting compensates for that difficulty by giving a much larger timing window. 6. If it's really just rhythm shooting, then why do people with button also make fades? That’s a fair question and probably what many people are thinking. This does not mean players using the button will not make tough fades. They will, just like in previous 2Ks. But since button requires much more precise timing, those fades go in at lower rates. A new or inexperienced player wouldn't be able to spam fades like they can with rhythm, it would take a higher level of skill. 7. How does that connect? According to NBA 2KLabs, rhythm shooting roughly doubles the green window compared to shooting without it. That wider timing window affects all shots, but it disproportionately benefits mechanically difficult shots like fades, shots that would otherwise be too hard to consistently green. 8. Why does this matter specifically for fades? Because fades get a double advantage. They're already harder to contest (more open looks), and now the timing difficulty that should balance that out is removed by rhythm shooting's massive timing window. 9. Why can't we just patch fades? Because fades themselves aren't really overpowered, rhythm shooting fades are. Patching fades as a whole would actually hurt balance. Without rhythm, fades behave as intended, they're difficult to time and require real skill to green consistently. The problem is that rhythm shooting removes that difficulty, inflating make percentages for shots that should be hard. So patching fades directly wouldn't fix the issue, it would just punish players who aren't even benefiting from rhythm shooting in the first place. 10. Then what is the problem? The problem is that rhythm shooting's doubled green window makes it too easy to consistently hit shots that were designed to be difficult. Fades are just the most obvious beneficiary because they combine hard to contest shots with what should be punishing timing requirements, but rhythm shooting removes that punishment.

If you’re still defending rhythm shooting, you are everything wrong with the 2K community. This mechanic is killing the game. It destroys competitive balance and makes timing completely meaningless.

@grok also would u consider this perfect defensive positioning by Andrew Wiggins or just average positioning?

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