BREAKING: The WNBA Just Signed A Groundbreaking New Deal Worth More Money Than They’ve Ever Seen, And It’s All Because Of Caitlin Clark!

Caitlin Clark and Courtney Williams (Photo by David Berding/Getty Images)
The WNBA has signed a massive national media rights deal unlike any it’s ever seen before.

The league has been receiving lots of extra attention lately, much of which is due to the arrival of Caitlin Clark. And it’s set to get paid handsomely for it.

According to a report from The Athletic, the WNBA is set to receive around $2.2 billion over the next 11 years, having negotiated deals with Disney, NBC, and Amazon.

“The NBA negotiated the WNBA’s new deals during its just-completed rights talks, where it reached an agreement with Disney, NBC, and Amazon on an 11-year, approximately $75 billion set of contracts. The WNBA’s national media rights agreements are with those companies as well; ESPN, NBC, and Amazon will all have their own WNBA packages.”

The NBA’s board of governors approved the deals this week, but they aren’t official yet because Warner Bros. Discovery, TNT’s parent company, claims to have matching rights for a package but has yet to decide whether to use them.

The WNBA Could Make Up To Six Times As Much As What They Make Currently, Thanks To Caitlin Clark

The WNBA’s current deals, set to expire after the 2025 season, are worth around $50 million a year. The new deals will pay around $200 million a year, but the league could make up to six times what it makes now as the new contracts allow them to bring in new partners, which is a huge possibility given Clark’s growing influence.

Two other rights packages are expected to be sold for an additional $60 million annually.

An agreement is also in place to revisit the rights deals in three years if interest in the WNBA continues to grow and the rights become undervalued.

WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert said earlier this year that she hoped the league would at least double its rights fees. It appears expectations have been far exceeded.

VIDEO: Something Suspicious Happened To NBC’s Broadcast As Cris Collinsworth Appeared To Get “Zapped By Roger Goodell” After Criticizing The Refs During Chiefs-Ravens Season Opener

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The Kansas City Chiefs seemed to have some help during their opening game against the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday night.

The defending Super Bowl Champions had some early flags go their way, with the visiting Ravens getting penalized for multiple offsides.

Defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo was also strangely allowed to call a timeout heading into halftime despite assistant coaches generally not being permitted to do so.

At one point, the refs failed to call a false start on Chiefs tackle Jawaan Taylor. NBC’s Cris Collinsworth pointed it out, but the broadcast suddenly went silent for several seconds.

Check it out in the video below:

Fans Were Fuming At The Kansas City Chiefs After Seeing The Missed Call

Fans expectedly raged online after watching the missed call.

“So this rule applies to 31 teams but Mahomes’ team gets a pass? What are we doing,” one fumed.

“He does it regularly – did it through out last years playoffs,” someone added.

“Taylor is the worst and most blatant offender in the league and has been through at least last season but I feel like rarely gets called for it,” another fan wrote.

“The KC offensive line gets away with more uncalled false starts and uncalled holding penalties than any team that I’ve ever seen by a wide margin,” a user noted.

“3 peat preparation from the League is off to a good start,” someone else said.

The Chiefs were leading 20-10 early in the third quarter at the time of writing, with Patrick Mahomes his usual brilliant self, throwing 12/18 for 188 yards, though he hadn’t made a touchdown pass and had a pass picked off.