{"id":249748,"date":"2025-10-30T09:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249748\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:05:15","slug":"wnba-offers-players-extension-on-cba-negotiations-sources-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249748\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA offers players extension on CBA negotiations: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the current collective bargaining agreement set to expire on Friday, the WNBA has offered the WNBPA a 30-day extension to continue negotiating a new CBA, sources confirmed to The Athletic on Tuesday. ESPN was the first to report.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding an extension, WNBPA senior advisor and legal counsel Erin D. Drake said earlier Tuesday on The Athletic\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/podcast\/287-the-athletic-womens-basketball-show\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:No Offseason;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">No Offseason<\/a>\u201d podcast: \u201cWe\u2019re having constant conversations with players, but that is a strategic decision for everyone to consider. Of course, an extension is always on the table, as are a number of other options.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest benefit (of an extension) is certainty,\u201d Drake added. \u201cYou know what the next period under that extension is going to look like. It\u2019s going to look like this agreement. \u2026 The drawbacks of that is that you have cemented this reality while you\u2019re negotiating and that things remain the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Drake said she did not expect to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6756761\/2025\/10\/28\/wnba-cba-deadline-agreement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a deal on a new CBA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">a deal on a new CBA<\/a> by Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Cathy Engelbert entertained the possibility of an extension prior to the start of the WNBA Finals while still expressing hope that a deal could get done by the Oct. 31 deadline. \u201cI feel confident that we can get a deal done, but if not, I think we could do an extension,\u201d Engelbert said. \u201cHopefully, the Players Association and we will continue to work hard between now and the end of the month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A source familiar with the negotiations said that while the players would consider an extension under the right circumstances, \u201cthose circumstances do not yet exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The players\u2019 union opted out of the present CBA on Oct. 21, 2024, but the two parties don\u2019t appear to have made much progress on a new deal in the year since. The main sticking point is the issue of revenue share: the league is proposing a structure similar to the current iteration that has a fixed salary cap and potential revenue share if certain targets are achieved, while the WNBPA wants a revenue-sharing system that allows players to partake in all of the revenue the league brings in.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the model, players are expected to see significant salary gains in the new CBA. How they get there remains a point of contention, and neither side is content with how the negotiations have proceeded.<\/p>\n<p>WNBPA executive director Terri Jackson said last week that the league\u2019s response was \u201cto run out the clock\u201d, while the league accused the players\u00a0union\u00a0of spending more time \u201cdisseminating public disinformation.\u201d The league also said in a statement Tuesday that it submitted its latest proposal to the\u00a0WNBPA on Oct. 1 and only received a response on Oct. 27.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6758591\/2025\/10\/28\/wnba-cba-negotiation-deadline-extension-offered-players\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Athletic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WNBA, Sports Business<\/p>\n<p>2025 The Athletic Media Company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the current collective bargaining agreement set to expire on Friday, the WNBA has offered the WNBPA a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,11628,4233,116847,34150,115871,92501,82,630,15457,56438],"class_list":["post-249748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cathy-engelbert","tag-cba","tag-erin-d-drake","tag-extension","tag-players-association","tag-revenue-share","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-finals","tag-wnbpa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249748","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=249748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}