This weekend we learned that 31-year-old WNBA star Brittney Griner was detained in Russia since February. Griner’s vulnerability in this moment is a reminder of how top athletes in the WNBA face a very different landscape than their male counterparts in the NBA.

According to a Sports Illustrated report, the New York Liberty were fined $500 thousand dollars last year due to a violation of the WNBA league’s collective bargaining agreement for chartering of flights in the second half of the season. It's a violation because supposedly it exceeds the permitted compensation to players.

Howard Megdal, the editor and founder of The Next Women’s Basketball Newsroom and The IX Women’s sports Newsletter joined us for more about how inequity effects women’s basketball.