{"id":26185,"date":"2025-07-26T19:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26185\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T19:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T19:35:08","slug":"are-wnba-players-sitting-out-the-season-explaining-viral-post-about-salary-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26185\/","title":{"rendered":"Are WNBA players sitting out the season? Explaining viral post about salary protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WNBA&#8217;s players have made clear where they stand on league salaries.<\/p>\n<p>They wore matching shirts before the league&#8217;s All-Star Game that read, &#8220;Pay us what you owe us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming CBA negotiations have the potential to be heated. The current deal ends on Oct. 31, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The looming conflict has also set up some false claims on social media, though.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/wnba\/news\/wings-paige-bueckers-sets-wnba-rookie-record-caitlin-clark\/c96b048cfa9b17931cedd5eb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Paige Bueckers set a new WNBA rookie record<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are WNBA players sitting out the season?<\/p>\n<p>No, WNBA players are not sitting out the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>That was the claim by a parody account, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheNBACentel\/status\/1949186583422177708\" rel=\"nofollow\">NBA Centel<\/a>, on X on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: WNBA players are prepared to protest and sit out the remainder of the season if salary demands are not met.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPMNBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@ESPMNBA<\/a>) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ALYtMAGyiA\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ALYtMAGyiA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBACentel (@TheNBACentel) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNBACentel\/status\/1949186583422177708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">July 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simply put, that&#8217;s not real.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t believe everything you read on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/wnba\/indiana-fever\/news\/fevers-sophie-cunningham-couldnt-miss-upset-win-aces-without-caitlin-clark\/821222fd2e05b491deb1e590\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sophie Cunningham could hardly miss in upset win over Aces<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA&#8217;s players have made clear where they stand on league salaries. They wore matching shirts before the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-26185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26185","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=26185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}