{"id":529985,"date":"2026-03-11T21:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529985\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T21:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:44:13","slug":"the-wnba-and-the-players-union-without-an-agreement-on-the-deadline-imposed-by-the-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529985\/","title":{"rendered":"The WNBA and the players&#8217; union, without an agreement on the deadline imposed by the league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington (EFE).- The WNBA and the union representing the players surpassed this Wednesday the deadline imposed by the league to implement a new collective agreement without having reached an agreement.<\/p>\n<p>You may be interested in:<a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/baloncesto\/adebayo-anota-83-puntos-supera-marca-de-kobe-bryant-y-firma-noche-historica-en-triunfo-del-heat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Adebayo scores 83 points, surpasses Kobe Bryant&#8217;s record and signs a historic night in Heat&#8217;s victory<\/a>t<\/p>\n<p>The league and the union negotiated against the clock in a marathon session that lasted for about ten hours, until well into the early hours of this Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>But the parties failed to reach an agreement by the deadline (March 10) imposed by the WNBA to avoid affecting the 2026 schedule, with the league start scheduled for May 8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s complex. We are working to reach an agreement where everyone wins (\u2026) So we are working hard on it and we still have work to do,\u201d assured the commissioner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/efe.com\/noticias\/wnba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WNBA<\/a>, Cathy Engelbert, in statements to US media.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"WNBA Jugadoras\" class=\"wp-image-2555977\" title=\"The WNBA and the players' union, without an agreement on the deadline imposed by the league | 2 |\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/OBJ_20250523T035625S0012I_1_1_1_15_7_6.webp.jpeg\"\/>La p\u00edvot de Atlanta Dream, Brittney Griner (D), en una fotograf\u00eda de archivo. EFE\/EPA\/Erik S. Lesser<\/p>\n<p>The negotiations between the WNBA and the players<\/p>\n<p>For her part, the executive director of the players&#8217; union (WNBPA), lawyer Terri Jackson, stated that the negotiations are now &#8220;on the right track.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Error en el proceso de traducci\u00f3n<\/p>\n<p>Error en el proceso de traducci\u00f3n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"WNBA Jugadoras\" class=\"wp-image-2555971\" title=\"The WNBA and the players' union, without an agreement on the deadline imposed by the league | 3 |\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/OBJ_20250523T034450S0012I_1_1_1_15_7_6.webp.jpeg\"\/>La base de Indiana Fever, Sophie Cunningham, en una fotograf\u00eda de archivo. EFE\/EPA\/Erik S. Lesser<\/p>\n<p>Error en el proceso de traducci\u00f3n<\/p>\n<p>Error en el proceso de traducci\u00f3n<\/p>\n<p>Error en el proceso de traducci\u00f3n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington (EFE).- The WNBA and the union representing the players surpassed this Wednesday the deadline imposed by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-529985","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\/529985","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=529985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}