{"id":489269,"date":"2026-02-21T05:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/489269\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T05:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:36:08","slug":"breanna-stewart-tells-the-post-that-wnba-cba-talks-need-to-hit-next-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/489269\/","title":{"rendered":"Breanna Stewart tells The Post that WNBA CBA talks need to hit next gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 2026 WNBA season inching closer and a new collective bargaining agreement <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/18\/sports\/how-the-wnba-can-get-past-its-cba-impasse\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">yet to be finalized<\/a>, Breanna Stewart said both sides need to feel the time crunch and negotiate with a sense of urgency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with The Post ahead of Unrivaled\u2019s March 2 debut at Barclays Center, Stewart on Friday said labor talks need to accelerate in order to avoid a delayed start to the season, especially considering the league still needs to execute two drafts and arguably the WNBA\u2019s biggest free agency to date.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Asked about her level of optimism that the WNBA will open on its scheduled start date of May 8, Stewart said she wasn\u2019t sure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that for it to start on time, like, [the] deal needs to be done within the next two weeks, and I don\u2019t know,\u201d Stewart said. \u201cRight now, I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ll have more of an idea once they respond back.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 2026 WNBA season inching closer and a new collective bargaining agreement yet to be finalized, Breanna&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[4657,49,48,282,82,2089,630,105474],"class_list":{"0":"post-489269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-breanna-stewart","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-exclusive","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-plus","14":"tag-wnba","15":"tag-wnba-free-agency"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489269","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=489269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}