NBA is a prestige brand popular worldwide and more respected than wrestling.
Wrestling has a niche market of jobless fat neets who have been historically shunned by advertisers because they're trash on par with or viewed as even less than NBA's nigger viewership.
Its viewer dollars are simply less valuable than any other sport no matter how dirtsheets try and frame it.
IN WM season Raw only gets 1.7 mil, not far ahead of what they normally get. Last year the NBA playoffs averaged over 3.5 million and was even higher for the finals, averaging 4 times what SD gets. That's where networks recoup all their investment.