{"id":530958,"date":"2026-03-12T07:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/530958\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T07:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:52:10","slug":"wnba-teeters-on-the-edge-as-cba-talks-fail-to-yield-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/530958\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA teeters on the edge as CBA talks fail to yield deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Negotiations between the WNBA and its players&#8217; union stretched past 5 a.m. ET on Wednesday with no deal in sight, and a leading sports business expert said the league was now dangerously close to uncharted territory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are on the verge of a lockout,&#8221; Dr. Daniel G. Kelly II, Associate Dean and Clinical Professor at NYU&#8217;s Preston Robert Tisch Institute for Global Sport, said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one wins with a strike, it&#8217;s a zero-sum game. With a 44-game season, you really can&#8217;t afford to have too long a &#8230; stoppage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Negotiations between the WNBA and its players&#8217; union stretched past 5 a.m. ET on Wednesday with no deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-530958","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\/530958","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=530958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}