{"id":323935,"date":"2025-12-04T02:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323935\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T02:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:30:08","slug":"a-big-confusing-wnba-cba-update-the-athlete-influencer-era-and-wnba-draft-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323935\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big, Confusing WNBA CBA Update, the Athlete-Influencer Era, and WNBA Draft Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seerat is joined by Maitreyi Anantharaman to discuss the evolving landscape of women\u2019s basketball, focusing on the WNBA\u2019s recent CBA negotiations, salary proposals, and the implications for players. They also talk about the importance of transparency regarding housing and contract terms. They also discuss the rise of the \u201cathlete-influencer\u201d in the WNBA, and finish off with a dive into some recent happenings in college basketball to see what the new crop of pro prospects may have in store.<\/p>\n<p>(00:00) Intro<\/p>\n<p>(01:11) CBA Updates<\/p>\n<p>(24:43) Housing in the CBA<\/p>\n<p>(40:24) The Athlete-Influencer Era<\/p>\n<p>(47:00) College Hoops Updates<\/p>\n<p>Host: Seerat Sohi<br \/>Guest: Maitreyi Anantharaman<br \/>Senior Producer: Steve Ahlman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seerat is joined by Maitreyi Anantharaman to discuss the evolving landscape of women\u2019s basketball, focusing on the WNBA\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-323935","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\/323935","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=323935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}