The WNBA and Women’s National Basketball Players Association agreed to a moratorium on league business, specifically free agency, according to several reports Monday.<\/p>\n
The sides failed to reach a deal for a new collective bargaining agreement by Friday’s \u200bdeadline, which had already been extended \u200dtwice since \u2060the end of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
After \u200dthe CBA officially expired at midnight ET on Friday, the sides entered a “status quo” period in which the working conditions of the previous agreement are maintained, \u200dand the league said in a statement that negotiations “remain ongoing” with the players’ union.<\/p>\n
With a moratorium \u200cin place, however, WNBA franchises are not allowed to extend qualifying offers or “core \u200bdesignations” to \u200ctheir players, nor to negotiate with or \u200csign free agents.<\/p>\n
Players are waiting for \u200bthe \u200cnew CBA to be finalized and ratified because of the expected leap in salary-cap space and minimum and maximum salaries.<\/p>\n
The levels of player salaries and the methods of revenue sharing remain key sticking points. The WNBA’s latest offer included between 50-70% of the league’s net revenues going to \u200dthe \u200dplayers, while the union wants a certain percentage of the gross revenue instead, per ESPN \u200dand USA Today reports.<\/p>\n
The WNBA has not lost games due to labor issues in its 30-year history. However, the continued negotiation standoff \u200cshrinks an offseason in which it has to fit in an expansion draft for the new Portland and Toronto franchises, free agency and the college draft in a shorter period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA and Women’s National Basketball Players Association agreed to a moratorium on league business, specifically free agency,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630,56438],"class_list":{"0":"post-406034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba","12":"tag-wnbpa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406034","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=406034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}