{"id":243782,"date":"2025-10-27T16:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/243782\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:18:09","slug":"elected-officials-send-letter-to-cathy-engelbert-adam-silver-regarding-wnba-cba-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/243782\/","title":{"rendered":"Elected officials send letter to Cathy Engelbert, Adam Silver regarding WNBA CBA tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761581889_422_PTVSKWPPAHMJXUNH2CHTG25TXE.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Elected officials urged the WNBA \u201c\u2018to bargain in good faith to reach a fair (Collective Bargaining Agreement) in a timely manner\u2019 before the Oct. 31 deadline.\u201d Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">A letter to WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver from elected officials urged the WNBA \u201c\u2018to bargain in good faith to reach a fair (Collective Bargaining Agreement) in a timely manner\u2019 before the Oct. 31 deadline,\u201d according to Ben Pickman of THE ATHLETIC. The letter sent Friday from more than 70 legislators, who \u201cgovern in proximity to seven WNBA markets and include a mix of mayors, council members and assembly members\u201d comes at a \u201ccritical moment in the discussions\u201d between the league and WNBPA. The two sides \u201cremain divided on key issues as the current CBA nears its expiration date and tensions are high.\u201d The letter reflects the \u201ccontinued growing spotlight on the WNBA\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6746614\/2025\/10\/24\/wnba-players-letter-union-zohran-mamdani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6746614\/2025\/10\/24\/wnba-players-letter-union-zohran-mamdani\/\">THE ATHLETIC, 10\/24<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elected officials urged the WNBA \u201c\u2018to bargain in good faith to reach a fair (Collective Bargaining Agreement) in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,459,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-243782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243782","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=243782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}