{"id":297214,"date":"2025-11-21T09:18:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/297214\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:18:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:18:26","slug":"why-cba-7-figure-max-contract-talks-is-misleading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/297214\/","title":{"rendered":"Why CBA 7-figure max contract talks is \u2018misleading\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/wnba\/wnba-stories\/wnba-news-league-wnbpa-reach-30-day-extension-cba-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA and the players association agreed to a 30-day extension<\/a> in terms of the ongoing negotiations as they faced an Oct. 31 deadline to agree on a new CBA. With the second deadline approaching on Nov. 30, some of the details of the WNBA\u2019s latest proposal have come to light, including a potential increase in max contract values.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, the WNBA is offering players a starting max contract of around $1 million in the latest CBA negotiations. However, that proposal in terms of a max salary <a href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/wnba-cba-million-dollar-offer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">is not exactly<\/a> what it appears to be, as per Annie Costabile of Front Office Sports. That max contract of around $1 million is reportedly contingent on the WNBA hitting specific revenue-sharing goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMultiple sources familiar with the league\u2019s labor negotiations said that the numbers are misleading. While salaries can reach a maximum of more than $1.1 million in the league\u2019s offer, the base supermax contract would still pay between $800,000 and $850,000 annually \u2013 as was the case in early October,\u201d Costabile reports. \u201cThe $1.1 million figure represents combined earnings from a base salary and additional potential revenue sharing, the league source said. Under the league\u2019s offer, no player would sign a contract in 2026 with a base salary of $1.1 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the CBA talks have continued, the negotiations have become contentious at times, hitting a boiling point back in September when Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier blasted the league during her exit interview. WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert responded to the comments with disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>During WNBA All-Star Weekend, fans rained down chants of, \u2018pay them,\u2019 amid Engelbert awarding the game\u2019s MVP award. The players also made a strong statement of their own when they came out for All-Star Game warmups wearing shirts that said, \u2018Pay Us What You Owe Us.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA is experiencing a time of tremendous growth and popularity, with Game 1 of the WNBA Finals between the Las Vegas Aces and Phoenix Mercury <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/wnba\/wnba-news-league-astonishing-game-1-viewership-28-year-mark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">breaking a 28-year viewership record<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, the WNBA and the players association agreed to a 30-day extension in terms of the ongoing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630,108958],"class_list":["post-297214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297214","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=297214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}