>>512579717It's not that "basketball players earn X, but WOMEN basketball players earn Y!"
It's that "this group of people bring this amount of money, but that group of people only bring that amount of money".
If I, a man, start playing basketball on the court at a random place no one's going to pay me millions of dollars.
To put it in other terms for you,
A LOT of people buy NBA tickets, so the men make a LOT of money.
Very little people buy WNBA tickets, so the women make very little money.