WNBA’s Engelbert: Progress in negotiations and a deal needed by Monday to avoid season disruption | Region

NEW YORK (AP) — WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said Friday night that progress is being made toward a new collective bargaining agreement with the players’ union and there’s an urgency to get a deal done by Monday to avoid disruptions to the upcoming season.

“I’ve never been a betting woman in my life and I’m not going to start now. But we have to get a deal done by Monday,” Engelbert said during a break in in-person negotiations. “We have to get it done without disrupting some part of the fact that we’ve got to run this two team expansion (draft). We have to get expansion going. We got to get free agency going. We gotta get the college draft.”

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