{"id":361271,"date":"2025-12-22T07:54:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/361271\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T07:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:54:20","slug":"wnbpa-president-says-players-seeking-a-fair-cba-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/361271\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBPA president says players seeking a ‘fair’ CBA agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Skylar Diggins talks Unrivaled player expectations<\/p>\n

Skylar Diggins shares how Unrivaled is elevating player experience with top tier resources and support.<\/p>\n

Sports Seriously<\/p>\n

Nneka Ogwumike, Women’s National Basketball Players Association president and Seattle Storm All-Star, told ESPN on Friday<\/a> that the players want a 2026 WNBA season despite the strike authorization vote issued by the union on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Players voted to authorize the WNBPA’s Executive Committee to “call a strike when necessary.”<\/a> The vote comes less than a month before the current CBA is set to expire on Jan. 9, 2026, following two previous extensions<\/a>\u00a0from the original Oct. 31 deadline.<\/p>\n

Ogwumike said the vote is a “symbol of our unity and the confidence that we have in each other to be able to give ourselves some level of authority in these negotiations.”<\/p>\n

“We’re looking for a good deal to get done, but we’re also prepared for whatever it takes for that to happen, while also understanding that we want a 2026 season,” Ogwumike said. “We want to make sure that that season is the way that it can be best for us to put the product on the court and for that product to be valued.”<\/p>\n

The league’s latest offer\u00a0includes a maximum $1 million base salary, with a projected revenue sharing component\u00a0that raises\u00a0players’ max total earnings to more than $1.3 million in 2026,\u00a0a person with direct knowledge\u00a0of the situation told USA TODAY Sports.\u00a0The person\u00a0spoke on the condition of anonymity because they’re not authorized to speak publicly about ongoing negotiations. The league’s maximum salary would grow to nearly $2\u00a0million over the life of the agreement.<\/p>\n

The proposal also raises the league’s minimum salary to over $250,000 and the average salary to more than $530,000, up from the current $67,000 and $120,000\u00a0salary,\u00a0respectively.<\/p>\n

A strike could result in the 2026 season being delayed or canceled. The WNBA has never experienced a lockout in its 29-year history, although the 2003 WNBA draft\u00a0and preseason were postponed before a new\u00a0CBA was reached.<\/a><\/p>\n

The players have prioritized two main points amid negotiations\u00a0\u2014\u00a0increased revenue sharing and salary structures. According to\u00a0The Athletic<\/a>, the league has offered revenue sharing at 15% while the union has proposed 30%. The sides also differ on how that percentage, as well as the salary cap, would be calculated.”This means we could possibly strike if we need to, but it doesn’t mean that we want that to happen,” Ogwumike said. “But we have it in our arsenal in order for us to get exactly what we need, which is a fair deal that represents our value in a very meaningful way.<\/p>\n

“I want to play, and I know that I’m going to get a good deal done on behalf of these players, along with the amazing leadership of this executive committee. So I’m looking forward to seeing how conversations can be more collaborative.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skylar Diggins talks Unrivaled player expectations Skylar Diggins shares how Unrivaled is elevating player experience with top tier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[461,49,48,1161,3049,2561,8891,1571,2034,44,10663,10667,10664,1333,2042,82,865,1335,630,4134,4143,5368,11932],"class_list":["post-361271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-espn","tag-espn-inc","tag-inc","tag-issues","tag-labor","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-nnemkadi","tag-nnemkadi-ogwumike","tag-ogwumike","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-u0026","tag-wnba","tag-womens","tag-womens-sports","tag-work","tag-work-u0026-labor-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361271","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=361271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}