{"id":321904,"date":"2025-12-03T03:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/321904\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T03:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:43:08","slug":"breaking-down-the-wnbas-latest-collective-bargaining-agreement-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/321904\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking down the WNBA\u2019s latest Collective Bargaining Agreement proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GIST: ICYMI, the WNBA and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnbpa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">its players association<\/a> agreed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6851244\/2025\/12\/01\/wnba-players-union-cba-negotiations-extension\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">a six-week collective bargaining agreement (CBA) extension<\/a> on Sunday. One day later, the league dropped its latest proposal\u2026and raised a whole lot of eyebrows.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcb0 Seven-digit salaries remain in latest proposal: Player compensation has been a sticking point throughout negotiations, but the proposed $1.2M max total salary, which is inclusive of projected revenue sharing, would match the WNBPA\u2019s pay expectations. Under this proposal, next year\u2019s average salary would exceed $500K, while the salary cap would increase from $1.5M to $5M.<\/p>\n<p>These marks inch closer to what players have been asking for, but the newest proposal still doesn\u2019t address the WNBPA\u2019s request for a revenue sharing model that more closely resembles the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba-players-score-shared-revenue-130000564.html#:~:text=The%20previous%20CBA%20guaranteed,years%20of%20the%20CBA.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">equal split in the NBA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc40 The real buzz surrounds two proposed changes that would redefine league operations:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 Player housing: Those lucrative salaries could come at a cost as the league proposed axing team-provided player housing, a WNBA requirement since 2016. In a league with lots of turnover, this decision would disproportionately affect \u201cbubble\u201d players, who make less money than their superstar peers and might play in multiple cities over the course of a season.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc5 Earlier start date: Training camps typically start in April, an already tight turnaround for college hoopers. The league\u2019s proposal featured a start date as early as mid-March, smack dab in the middle of March Madness, meaning rookies would have even less time to recover and could potentially miss some of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u23e9 What\u2019s next: Negotiations will continue ahead of the extended January 9th deadline with the WNBPA expecting \u201csubstantive movement from the league,\u201d as stated following Sunday\u2019s extension. Watching, waiting\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The GIST: ICYMI, the WNBA and its players association agreed to a six-week collective bargaining agreement (CBA) extension&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-321904","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\/321904","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=321904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}