Women's basketball is having a moment, thanks to this year's NCAA tournament and stars like Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso. Professionally, however, the WNBA is still years -- if not decades -- away from being the blockbuster global success that the NBA is.

Jemele Hill wasn’t a fan of the tone being used around the conversation on WNBA salaries — and she let it be known. The former ESPN journalist and current contributor to The Atlantic took to X on Tuesday in a lengthy post about the situation that the WNBA faces and responded to critics who bashed what the league was paying its newest star,

College basketball phenom Caitlin Clark’s starting salary in the WNBA has caught the eye of Massachusetts’ two congresswomen who are calling for the dismantling of the “gender pay gap.”