{"id":326147,"date":"2025-12-05T02:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/326147\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T02:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:52:17","slug":"wnba-wnbpa-spar-over-revenue-sharing-in-latest-cba-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/326147\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA, WNBPA spar over revenue sharing in latest CBA negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dallas Wings could choose Azzi Fudd in WNBA Draft<\/p>\n

As Dallas weighs options for top pick in WNBA Draft, USA TODAY’s Meghan Hall breaks down how UConn’s Azzi Fudd could help the Wings shine.<\/p>\n

Sports Seriously<\/p>\n

The WNBA<\/a> and WNBPA continue to spar over revenue sharing as the two sides negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement<\/a>, SBJ reported<\/a> on Thursday, Dec. 4.<\/p>\n

The Athletic reported<\/a> Dec. 3 that the WNBA’s latest offer includes players getting 15% of league and team revenue. SBJ reported that the player’s association countered with 30%. The gap demonstrates the two sides are still a ways from figuring out a compromise.<\/p>\n

WNBA players got 9.3% of the revenue under the old CBA and opted out of that agreement last October. A bump of a little over 5% in revenue share is not what the union had hoped for or will accept, SBJ reported.<\/p>\n

The WNBA declined comment Thursday but sources familiar with their thinking said comparing the the 50-50 split of revenue in men’s leagues, like the NBA, is not a good comparison. The NBA and WNBA have similar infrastructure of arenas, coaches, trainers and other support staff with very different revenues. The NBA’s projected revenue for the 2025-2026 season is $14.3 billion, according to Sportico<\/a>. The New York Times reported <\/a>WNBA revenues for 2025 at $300 million.<\/p>\n

The WNBA’s latest proposal, reported earlier this week,<\/a> would also raise the salary cap to $5 million a season per team, with increasing the cap over the length of the CBA tied to revenue growth. The minimum player salary would rise to $225,000, the average salary to $500,000 and max $1 million. Under the current CBA, the salary cap is $1.5 million a season per team. The minimum player salary is around $66,000, with the maximum salary worth just north of $249,000.<\/p>\n

The same source familiar with the WNBA’s thinking said players have had two items at the top of their list through negotiations: increased salary and revenue sharing tied to growth. The WNBA believes they have made significant concessions in both areas.<\/p>\n

The two sides agreed to keep the current CBA intact while they hammer out the new deal. They extended the deadline to Jan. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings could choose Azzi Fudd in WNBA Draft As Dallas weighs options for top pick in WNBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[461,49,48,2539,8891,1571,47,2349,459,2034,5268,5852,44,1333,2042,82,865,5842,1335,630,4134,4143,5368,11932,5841],"class_list":["post-326147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-company","tag-issues","tag-labor","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-nba","tag-neutral","tag-new","tag-new-york-times-company","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-times","tag-u0026","tag-wnba","tag-womens","tag-womens-sports","tag-work","tag-work-u0026-labor-issues","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326147","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=326147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}