{"id":505934,"date":"2026-02-28T20:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505934\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T20:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:28:17","slug":"wnba-players-submit-final-hour-counterproposal-as-strike-deadline-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505934\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Players Submit Final-Hour Counterproposal as Strike Deadline Looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 WNBA season is on the brink. With a March 10 strike deadline looming, the players\u2019 union has submitted a last-ditch counterproposal to the league. The two sides remain millions of dollars apart, putting the upcoming season in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the WNBPA sent a revised proposal to the league, asking for players to receive 26% gross revenue over the course of the agreement, down from 27.5% stated in their previous offer sent on February 17. <\/p>\n<p>This reduction amounts to nearly $100 million in revenue shares. The union also reduced its housing salary demands by 5%. Although the salary cap of roughly $9.45 million remains, $3.85 million more than the league\u2019s offer.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the league remains firm with its offer of 70% net revenue, which amounts to less than 15% gross revenue. The proposed salary remains $5.65 million for 2026, up by $4.15 million from 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 WNBA season is on the brink. With a March 10 strike deadline looming, the players\u2019 union&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-505934","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\/505934","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=505934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}