Archive for October 19th, 2024

Firings watch.

Saturday, October 19th, 2024

Latricia Trammell was fired on Friday as head coach of the Dallas Wings.

The team was 9-31 this season.

In case you were wondering- and it took me longer to figure this out than it should have – the Dallas Wings are a WNBA team.

The Wings franchise started in Detroit in 1998 and won three WNBA championships there before moving to Tulsa in 2010. After six seasons in Oklahoma, the team relocated to Dallas in 2016 and became the Wings.

On a related note:

This season the WNBA will lose $40 million, a bit better than the $50 million forecast and reported by several media outlets months ago but still a loss, sources said.
Starting in the 2026 season, the WNBA will get up to $2.2 billion over 11 years as part of the new basketball media contracts.

But the players are expected to opt out of the current collective bargaining contract by a Nov. 1 deadline and, if they do, that means salaries are likely to rise, which would eat into that potential $60 million 2026 profit by the league — the $100M in television revenue turning the projected $40M loss into a $60M gain.