{"id":498054,"date":"2026-02-25T07:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498054\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T07:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:15:14","slug":"wnba-sets-mar-10-date-for-cba-negotiations-to-prevent-season-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498054\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA sets Mar. 10 date for CBA negotiations to prevent season delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The 2026 WNBA season is at risk of a delay, and possibly worse because of a lack of movement between the league and the WNBPA players union. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/48017494\/sources-wnba-sets-cba-deadline-keep-2026-schedule-intact\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:According to Alexa Philippou of ESPN;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">According to Alexa Philippou of ESPN<\/a>, the league has set a Mar. 10 target date to prevent a season delay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Philippou notes that even if there is a CBA agreement before Mar. 10, there will still be a delay before the CBA is official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Even once a deal is agreed upon, it could take weeks to formally ratify. The WNBA still needs to conduct a two-team expansion draft for the Toronto Tempo and Portland Fire and hold free agency for 80% of the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Training camp is currently slated to begin April 19, with the college draft scheduled for April 13. The regular season is supposed to tip on May 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hopefully, we will see some movement toward a CBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 WNBA season is at risk of a delay, and possibly worse because of a lack of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[11577,40918,199457,49,48,4233,3457,104252,199456,4649,82,737,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-498054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-alexa-philippou","9":"tag-barclays-center","10":"tag-brooklyn-borough","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-cba","14":"tag-new-york-liberty","15":"tag-portland-fire","16":"tag-rebekah-gardner","17":"tag-sonia-citron","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-washington-mystics","20":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498054","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=498054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}