{"id":230179,"date":"2025-10-21T20:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/230179\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:38:12","slug":"nba-commissioner-adam-silver-signals-big-pay-raise-for-wnba-in-upcoming-cba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/230179\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Commissioner Adam Silver signals &#8216;big&#8217; pay raise for WNBA in upcoming CBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said WNBA players are \u201cgoing to get a big increase in this cycle of collective bargaining and they deserve it.\u201d Silver, speaking on NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show, said as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/06\/09\/its-time-for-player-salaries-to-catch-up-with-wnbas-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/06\/09\/its-time-for-player-salaries-to-catch-up-with-wnbas-growth\/\">players in the WNBA are calling for more money<\/a> &#8212; they get 9% of total revenue compared to roughly 50% of the revenue of NBA players &#8212; the share of the WNBA\u2019s revenue \u201cisn\u2019t the right way to look at it because there\u2019s so much more revenue in the NBA.\u201d Rather, he thinks people \u201cshould look at it in absolute numbers in terms of what they\u2019re making.\u201d Silver, when speaking on this season\u2019s NBA All-Star game, said they are \u201cgoing to look at a Ryder Cup type format\u201d as they will be \u201cright in the middle of the [2026 Milano-Cortina Games], which of course will also be on NBC.\u201d Silver: \u201cRoughly a third of our league is international, so we have to figure out a way to make it fair to the All-Stars that if one third of the team is international, we want to make sure that us all stars get a fair shot\u201d (\u201cToday,\u201d NBC, 10\/21).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said WNBA players are \u201cgoing to get a big increase in this cycle of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[461,49,48,1639,459,82,630,4143],"class_list":["post-230179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-deals","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}