WNBA and WNBPA players union held a CBA negotiation meeting last Friday <\/a>in New York City where the league gave a counteroffer. The biggest hurdle is revenue sharing. However, according to Seattle Storm forward\/WNBPA President Nneka Ogwumike, things shouldn\u2019t be difficult once that hurdle is negotiated. Here is a snippet from the ESPN article.<\/p>\nOgwumike said once revenue sharing is solved, the rest hopefully will fall into place quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe made the point that once we nail this, we can get everything else done,\u201d Ogwumike said.<\/p>\n
The players are looking to get 30 percent of gross revenue while the owners are looking to give the players 70 percent of net revenue after expenses.<\/p>\n
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While WNBA players are in various international leagues or alternative American leagues like Unrivaled and Athletes Unlimited, it is still in both sides\u2019 interest to have a season given that the NBA and WNBA\u2019s joint media deal kicked off last fall with the 2025-26 NBA season. The revenue the WNBA will be getting is multiple times more than what it previously received.<\/p>\n
The WNBA regular season is supposed to begin on May 8 but the offseason, including the draft, will be on a compressed timeline when the agreement is finalized. Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Normally, early February is a big month for the WNBA. It\u2019s when we know which free agents will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[40918,49,48,9963,3484,189276,3430,3457,4653,1611,4649,82,737,630,11043],"class_list":{"0":"post-467605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-barclays-center","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-collective-bargaining-agreement","12":"tag-getty-images","13":"tag-nbae","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-liberty","16":"tag-nneka-ogwumike","17":"tag-seattle-storm","18":"tag-sonia-citron","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-washington-mystics","21":"tag-wnba","22":"tag-wnba-players"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467605","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=467605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}