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Yahoo Sports<\/a>: WNBA star Kelsey Plum demonstrates a critical lack of understanding of tax knowledge, embarrassing herself and whatever representation she claims with her proud proclamation of avoiding a tax clause but being completely wrong about it<\/span><\/p>\n The fact that a brogger like me is once against writing about anything related to the WNBA at all goes to show how much the sport has risen over the last few years or so, but it should be noted that once again, it is about Kelsey Plum, whom I\u2019m inclined to believe seems to have no idea of what it takes to be a professional athlete.<\/span><\/p>\n A year ago, she made the news<\/a> because she crashed out on an autograph hound that was camping outside of her team\u2019s hotel, and sure, the dude was obviously one of those cretin fans that just wanted autographs with the intention to flip and profit, but from what I saw, the guy wasn\u2019t pushy, maintained a safe and respectful distance, was out in public, and it was during the daytime.\u00a0 As far as anyone seeking autographs, this person was pretty respectful, and not necessarily deserving of the criticism and combative approach from Plum.<\/span><\/p>\n But frankly, my general take was that the fact that someone was there seeking WNBA players, kind of goes to show how much the awareness of women\u2019s pro basketball has risen, and that at least to me, there\u2019s a degree of \u201cwe\u2019ve made it\u201d that should be considered when autograph seekers start seeking their players out.\u00a0 And that Plum had a poor showing on professional athlete conduct with how she basically verbally dunked on a fan just tryna get some autos.<\/span><\/p>\n And here we go again, with Kelsey Plum making some niche news again, and once again the Magic 8 ball says outlook not good.<\/span><\/p>\n TL;DR the WNBA renegotiated their collective bargaining agreement, and it was a huge win for all the women in the WNBA because it came with a massive pay bump, leaps and bounds better than the paltry $74,000 minimum salary that was in place prior to.<\/span><\/p>\n Kelsey Plum, being a good basketball player, somewhat still in the prime of her career, was eligible for a $1.4M supermax contract, which again, considering the top players of the league were making less than 90% that a year prior, was due to make some big bank.\u00a0 However, she ultimately signed with the LA Sparks for an approximate value of $999,999, notably one dollar shy of a cool million bucks.<\/span><\/p>\n She would go on to boast about how that one dollar would prevent her from hitting a threshold that would make her eligible for what\u2019s known as the California Mental Health Services Act, AKA \u201cthe millionaire\u2019s tax.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 To her knowledge, signing for $999,999 instead of $1M meant she would save $13,000 in taxes.<\/span><\/p>\n However, tax experts were quick to correct and educate the rest of the viewing world that Plum\u2019s belief on how the millionaire\u2019s tax worked was not accurate, and that the tax would only affect any dollars that were $1M and above.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Had she signed for a $1M, she would have owed 13\u00a2 in taxes on that solitary dollar that pushed her to $1M.\u00a0 Had she signed the $1.4M supermax deal with the Sparks that she was entitled to, she would have had to have eaten $182,000 in taxes, but if we\u2019re doing math over here, she would have still netted $1,218,000, which is $218,001 more than the $999,999 she signed for.\u00a0 Sure, she would have had to have eaten a tax hit, but it\u2019s funny that in her belief she was saving $13K, she ended up losing $218K.<\/span><\/p>\n The best part about all of this was Plum\u2019s sheer cockiness in her belief that she had gamed some system.\u00a0 Because fewer things are more hilarious than someone being so sure that they\u2019re right about something, only to be completely wrong about it.<\/span><\/p>\n That being said, I\u2019m more inclined to believe that there\u2019s no professional athlete more ill-suited to being a professional athlete than Kelsey Plum is, because she doesn\u2019t seem to like autograph seekers, and whether she was using an agent or not, she completely bombed at playing the salary game, and these are just kind of things that seem to be everyday life for other professional athletes.<\/span><\/p>\n Act like you\u2019ve been there before, not like you have absolutely no clue to how the culture of privilege works.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yahoo Sports: WNBA star Kelsey Plum demonstrates a critical lack of understanding of tax knowledge, embarrassing herself and whatever representation she claims with her proud proclamation of avoiding a tax clause but being completely wrong about it The fact that a brogger like me is once against writing about anything related to the WNBA at … Continue reading Is there anyone who doesn\u2019t know how to be a pro-athlete more 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