Political commentator Benj Irby weighed in on the WNBA salary controversy Monday night, telling Newsmax that the “money’s not there” to justify raising the salaries of players who have threatened to sit out games if their demands are not met.

WNBA players have been angling for larger pay packages like those their NBA counterparts command, arguing that viewership and game attendance are at an all-time high in part due to the popularity of players like Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.

“We love women and women are wonderful and women are great, but the honest part of it is, look, the NBA makes a lot more money than the WNBA does, and it is what it is,” Irby said on “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE.” “I mean, you don’t see male models who make a tenth of what female models make going out there, Zoolander and all the other … male models out there protesting ‘We have to make the same money.’ It just doesn’t work like that.

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