$200,000 and $300,000 and the stars earn about half a million dollars. now, compare that to the starting salary of a rookie nba player, which is about $925,000, and you quickly learn that they re earning about seven times what the wnba players are earning. so imagine players can go to russia, for example, brittney griner can go to russia and earn about $1 million, jake. so brittney griner and many wnba players do it because they get to hearn a lot more money than they do here in the united states. rosa flores, appreciate it. maternity hospitals, apartment buildings, boarding schools for the blind, theaters serving as bomb shelters, these are not military targets. these are the civilian targets of the russian military. plus, breaking news on that horrific crash that killed six college golf players and their coach. what we re learning about who was behind the wheel of the other vehicle. stay with us. mptoms , get your z. and get back to your rhyththm.
signs urging people and families to make sure they take pictures of the driver s license and the people they are driving, with if it s not an official bus. all of this has really been taking a back seat to getting these refugees moved away from the border as quickly as possible. jake. ed lavandera reporting live from the polish/ukrainian border. thank you so much for that report. she was the u.s. ambassador to ukraine who was famously or infamously recalled during the trump administration and later testified in his first impeachment trial. marie yovanovitch will join us next. and then bad news for wnba star brittney griner who s being held in a moscow jail. stay with us.
just how hard this sanctioning is going to do in terms of getting to putin. he is not going to be affected. many of these oligarchs are willing to sit this one out while their money is safe, even being seized in the west. so it s going to be up to that crumbling russian economy and its people who are in so much pain to try to put some kind of pressure on a dictator who seems hell bent on keeping this war going. and who seems hell bent on not caring about the russian people in many ways. drew griffin, thank you very much. one of the top wnba players is being held in a russian jail. why they re already extending her time behind bars. stay with us. unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuriva plus fuels six key inindicators of brain performan. more brain performance? yes, please! neuriva. think bigger. (vo) right now, the big switch is happening across the country. small businesses are fed up with big bills and 5g maps that are mostly gaps d getting more 5g bars in more places. save o
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they say that brittney griner went before a judge in a video conference and that this hearing was not about the merits of the case, it was about the legality of the arrest and the detention, with her attorneys arguing that even the beds that are available for her are too small. the prosecution arguing that absolutely she should be detained and remain detained. the court at the end of the day ruled in the favor of the prosecution. so, jake, again, what all this means, at the end of the day brittney griner will continue to be detained at least through may 19th while she goes through the legal process in russia. explain to our audience why she was in russia to begin with. reporter: you know, in this case brittney griner is not alone. a lot of wnba players go abroad and play during the off-season to earn more money. let me break it down for you, because according to the latest wnba collective bargaining agreement, about the average wnba player earns about $130,000. the top players earn