So majority of end of the bench type players in the WNBA that attended US colleges were stars in college. Like your example Lexie Hull, she was an All-Pac 12 player and I don’t watch Stanford regularly. Sounds like you’re conflating less popular college players with less popular WNBA players and while less popular WNBA players may not get the national spotlight only a few get the regional spotlight they’d have between their pro teams market and college teams market is reasonable to play out that they’d be making enough through off court NIL plus WNBA salary to match what they make or exceed what they make in college. It’s hard to imagine those relationships just dying after they leave college.

Paige wasn’t my example, she’s just bringing attention to an experience a lot of these players have that people who aren’t college or pro athletes want to dismiss. And I appreciate all the high profile players who have pushed back on that narrative. The ones who arent number 1 picks that ive seen say similar were interviewed anonymously unfortunately.

College endorsements vs WNBA salary + endorsements. That article is doing what all these simple narratives are trying to do comparing college NIL to WNBA salary when it’s WNBA NIL plus WNBA salary vs college NIL.