{"id":503542,"date":"2026-02-27T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/503542\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:10:08","slug":"players-split-on-cba-details-after-heated-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/503542\/","title":{"rendered":"Players split on CBA details after ‘heated’ meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the WNBA continues to try to come to an agreement<\/a> on labor negotiations, things became tense<\/a> in the latest virtual meeting amongst the players, according to Annie Costabile of Front Office Sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe tone quickly became tense as players discussed the best path forward, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting,\u201d Costabile wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the causes of disagreement between players, according to multiple sources, is the approach to a potential strike,\u201d Costabile continued. \u201cPlayers authorized a potential strike in a near-unanimous votein mid-December, but some players have changed their mind since.\u201d<\/p>\n

There should be no surprise that there could be some spirited conversations going on between the players, as they all have different experiences playing in the league.<\/p>\n

The WNBA and the union had a meeting at the start of the week, and the league noted that both sides needed to prioritize reaching an agreement by March 1o<\/a> or the season could be delayed. If a deal is verbally agreed on March 10, it would not be signed until the end of the month, according to the league sources.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all want to play,\u201d Brown said via Costabile. \u201cWe all want a fair CBA, but fair looks different to different people. So how do we get to a place where fair looks good to everybody: to the majority, to the minority, to the max players, to the role players, the rookies. How do we get to a place where fair looks the same?\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest proposal was from the league, where they proposed a salary cap of $5.65 million per team. They also offered team housing to all players, but only for 2026.<\/p>\n

The union has yet to respond to the proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the WNBA continues to try to come to an agreement on labor negotiations, things became tense in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630,154563,108958],"class_list":{"0":"post-503542","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-wnba-rumors","13":"tag-wnba-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503542","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=503542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}