\u201cBecoming Caitlin Clark\u201d is out now!<\/p>\n Howard Megdal\u2019s newest book is here! \u201cBecoming Caitlin Clark: The Unknown Origin Story of a Modern Basketball Superstar\u201d captures both the historic nature of Clark\u2019s rise and the critical context over the previous century that helped make it possible, including interviews with Clark, Lisa Bluder (who also wrote the foreword), C. Vivian Stringer, Jan Jensen, Molly Kazmer and many others.<\/p>\n Then, they touched on what the ongoing negotiations have looked like:<\/p>\n \u201cYou come to terms on a deal, the labor, aka the union, they need to vote on how many of them want this deal or agree with the deal,\u201d Leite said. \u201cThere\u2019s usually a threshold of how much of percentage that votes need to go in in order for the deal to be accepted. And then once a deal comes to terms, everybody goes through it more, then it gets signed. And so I would say that that is probably like the rough draft of the process that would happen should these two sides come to a deal, hopefully soon. It\u2019s funny because the at the beginning of the season, I think the the players put a very lofty kind of goal of having it done by All-Star break, that has come and passed. There\u2019s no deal currently. And there was an in-person meeting at the All-Star game, and more than 40 players showed up, which is a big percentage of the league, given that there\u2019s only about 150 players, give or take, on any given day in the in the WNBA currently. And so yeah, it doesn\u2019t seem like they\u2019re any closer, just given what the players are saying. I know a few have been pretty vocal about that.\u201d<\/p>\n Leite and Mox also gave more details about what \u201crevenue sharing\u201d, one of the most vocal demands from the players\u2019 perspective, actually entails:<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of talk about how [for] the NBA, 50% of basketball related revenue goes to the players in the salary cap directly, whereas in the WNBA, I think the number is like 9.3%, [is] what is reported,\u201d Mox explained. \u201cAnd frankly, that number is been going down because revenue is going up fast. I don\u2019t know the exact numbers, but I can comfortably say the salary cap is going up by 3% every year since the CBA started, revenue over the last couple of years has definitely gone faster than 3%. \u2026 So the players right now \u2026 were locked into a number, and even though there was revenue sharing built in \u2026 even if that revenue sharing had kicked in, it still wouldn\u2019t have kicked in in a way that kept pace with the actual revenue of the league, and that\u2019s what the players want to see change.\u201d<\/p>\n Want even more women\u2019s sports in your inbox?<\/p>\n Subscribe now to The IX Sports<\/a> and receive our daily women\u2019s sports newsletter covering soccer, tennis, basketball, golf, hockey and gymnastics from our incredible team of writers. That includes Basketball Wednesday from founder and editor Howard Megdal.<\/p>\n Readers of The IX Basketball now save 50% on their subscription to The IX.<\/p>\n \u201cThe players want to go to that direct percentage of revenue put straight towards the salary cap, instead of having it be on incremental revenue beyond certain targets. \u2026 So that as the league grows, the players grow to the exact same extent, and ideally as the league previously has been operating on thinner margins, and the new revenue kicks in for the new media rights deal, for the television contracts, ideally, the players would probably want to have a higher percentage of that over time. Because in the short term, the league is operating at a loss from [an] accounting perspective, and as those margins get better and better for the league, then it becomes more reasonable for the players to want a higher percentage, whereas right now, it\u2019s going in the other direction. So that\u2019s the big thing \u2026 the players right now are in a situation where their share of the pie is regressing, and they would like it at least \u2026 to be static, and at best, they want it to be progressing,\u201d Mox continued.<\/p>\n Tune in to hear more about the process of putting together a CBA, what we can expect after the 2025 season concludes, and what the chances are of a WNBA lockout in 2026. To stay up to date with every episode of the podcast,\u00a0subscribe on YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or wherever you listen to podcasts. 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