Caitlin Clark’s WNBA salary: The outrage should start with the rookie scale, a problem across mulitple leagues

As of Monday morning, there were 87 tickets left to be sold by the Indiana Fever to the general public for the team’s opening home game of the WNBA season. It sounds more extravagant to cite the value of higher-priced seats on the secondary markets as proof that something is dramatically different with this franchise this season, but what puts money into the business are those seats sold directly by the club. And nearly all of those 17,274 are gone. Given the median ticket price for Fever season tickets, on a per-game basis, is $53.24, Caitlin Clark’s presence on the...