While the WNBA is getting sellout crowds for the finals between the New York Liberty and Minnesota Lynx, the league’s owners will not be making a return on their investment for the foreseeable future, sources close to the situation said.
The NBA owns nearly 60 percent of the league.
When one combines the NBA owners’ personal stakes in WNBA teams and the WNBA itself, the amount rises to 75 percent, a source with direct knowledge of the numbers said.
The NBA team owners have invested hundreds of millions in the WNBA since its 1996 formation, per sources.
“The WNBA owes the NBA so much we won’t see any windfall for years,” an NBA team executive told The Post.