{"id":449266,"date":"2026-02-02T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449266\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:37:10","slug":"caitlin-clark-calls-wnba-talks-one-of-the-biggest-moments-in-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449266\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark calls WNBA talks ‘One of the biggest moments’ in women’s sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the eve of Monday\u2019s crucial collective bargaining session <\/a>in N.Y., Fever G Caitlin Clark called the impending negotiations \u201cone of the biggest moments we\u2019ve ever had\u201d in women\u2019s sports and predicted the two sides will \u201cget something done here in the next couple weeks.\u201d During her debut on NBC\u2019s \u201cBasketball Night in America\u201d pregame show inside MSG Sunday night — where the network showed her defeating NBC analyst Jamal Crawford in a taped mini-game of H-O-R-S-E called N-B-C — Clark stressed that Monday\u2019s meeting is \u201csuper important\u201d and then explained why.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, honestly, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s just a big moment for the WNBA; I think [for] all of women\u2019s sports,\u201d she said. \u201cI think this is one of the biggest moments we\u2019ve ever had. So I feel very confident that we\u2019re going to get something done, and that\u2019s because we\u2019re in this moment because of the product we put on the floor. So we need to be able to continue to do that. And I know everybody\u2019s working really hard. I mean there\u2019s a lot of boxes that we still need to check. We\u2019ve added two new teams [in Portland and Toronto]. I mean, there\u2019s going to be more players than ever, and then we have to get into free agency and have a normal draft as well. So there\u2019s a lot of things left to do, but I really do feel confident that both sides are going to reach a deal here soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s meeting will be the sides\u2019 first full negotiation session of 2026, and sources believe the outcome could lead to either a deal or a player strike — with just 97 days left before the May 8 season openers. Several players in and out of the union\u2019s executive committee have made it a priority to attend, such as Napheesa Collier, Kelsey Plum, Nneka Ogwumike and Breanna Stewart — not to mention WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert. The core issue is still revenue sharing and a critical month-old union request for 30% of the pie that has been largely ignored by the league<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the eve of Monday\u2019s crucial collective bargaining session in N.Y., Fever G Caitlin Clark called the impending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-449266","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\/449266","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=449266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}