{"id":322999,"date":"2025-12-03T16:18:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322999\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:18:05","slug":"wnba-and-wnbpa-extend-collective-bargaining-negotiations-through-jan-9-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322999\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA and WNBPA extend Collective Bargaining negotiations through Jan. 9, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As you might have expected, the WNBA and WNBPA (players union) have agreed to extend Collective Bargaining negotiations through Jan. 9 2026. This came in a late night tweet by NBC contributor Khristina Williams last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That came just a day or two before reports of a guaranteed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bulletsforever.com\/mystics\/66596\/wnba-1-million-maximum-salaries-earlier-season-start\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$1 million maximum player salary and a $5 million salary cap<\/a> were released. These are wins for the players\u2019 union, but teams also proposed removing team housing, something that could give cause to pause for players who are on short-term contracts or get cut from teams midseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As you might have expected, the WNBA and WNBPA (players union) have agreed to extend Collective Bargaining negotiations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,737,630],"class_list":["post-322999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-washington-mystics","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322999","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=322999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}