{"id":299099,"date":"2025-11-22T06:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299099\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T06:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:44:11","slug":"after-latest-wnba-proposal-players-not-really-feeling-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299099\/","title":{"rendered":"After Latest WNBA Proposal, Players Not Really Feeling It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-1241906950.jpg\" alt=\"WNBA, 2024 Season, Basketball, DICK BARNETT, BIG3\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/author\/thorntonc\/\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by  Cedric &#8216;BIG CED&#8217; Thornton <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-date\">November 21, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-text\">With a little more than a week left in the collective bargaining agreement, the players are seeking a bigger percentage of the league&#8217;s revenue<\/p>\n<p>After reports of the WNBA\u2019s latest collective bargaining agreement (CBA)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/wnba-max-salary-1-1-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">proposal<\/a> increased substantially, players reportedly are not moved by the offer, with a little more than a week left in the current CBA, which expires Nov. 30 after a month-long extension.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN, the Women\u2019s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) is still looking for more in the most recent agreement offer. Although the league has proposed that the minimum salary would start at more than $220,000, with a maximum of more than $1.1 million, it does not align with the goal of players earning more throughout the life of the proposed arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>The WNBPA feels that the current fixed salary system does not fit what would benefit the players. They would prefer one that would almost mirror their NBA counterparts\u2019 revenue sharing. They want salaries based on basketball-related income (BRI).<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the WNBA said the proposal includes \u201csignificant guaranteed salary cap increases and substantial uncapped revenue sharing that enables player salaries to grow as the league\u2019s business grows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, in response, WNBPA Executive Director Terri Jackson told ESPN in October in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/46675630\/wnba-cba-updates-negotiations-latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">written<\/a> statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the players opted out a year ago, they made it clear they wanted a salary system that values their labor and allows them to grow with the business they are very clearly driving. The league\u2019s response has been to run out the clock, put lipstick on a pig, and retread a system that isn\u2019t tied to any part of the business and intentionally undervalues the players.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo Sports reported that the players want a model\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/breaking-news\/article\/wnba-union-reportedly-unmoved-by-cba-proposal-034046467.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">similar to the NBA\u2019s,<\/a> in which the salary cap is a fixed percentage of basketball-related income, which was 44.74% in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Market Watch\u00a0reported that WNBA players\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/wnba-players-only-get-9-3-of-league-revenue-heres-how-much-nba-nfl-and-nhl-players-get-0abef80c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">receive<\/a> 9.3% of their income from the league, a substantially lower percentage than the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Napheesa Collier, vice president of the WNBPA, had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/adam-silver-wnba-players-big-increase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">already stated<\/a> previously that the players were seeking \u201ctwo main points\u201d in the new CBA: increased revenue sharing and salary structures.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED CONTENT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/wnba-max-salary-1-1-million\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA Players Offered Over $1.1M Max Salary, Up From Current $250K<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Cedric &#8216;BIG CED&#8217; Thornton November 21, 2025 With a little more than a week left in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,4233,9963,82,630],"class_list":["post-299099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cba","tag-collective-bargaining-agreement","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299099","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=299099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}