Caitlin Clark finally looked like herself again in San Juan. Named MVP of the FIBA World Cup Qualifiers, she led Team USA to a 5-0 record while leading the tournament with 6.4 assists per game. She also averaged 11.6 points on 52.9% shooting, proving she\u2019s recovered from the injuries that ruined her second WNBA season.<\/p>\n
Before her 2025 season ended in July, Clark played only 13 games for the Indiana Fever due to her season-ending injury. During that stretch, she averaged 16.5 points and 8.8 assists but struggled from deep, hitting just 27.9% of her threes. In this tournament, however, her range improved, hitting 40% from three-point range. She hit deep shots both off the dribble and the catch, the strongest sign yet that she\u2019s back to full strength.<\/p>\n
In this vacuum, the WNBA’s new pay structure finally matches its popularity. After 17 months of talks, the league and the players’ union have reached a deal that more than quadruples the average salary, jumping from about $120,000 to over $530,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Spotrac confirmed, \u201cWNBA & players have reached agreement on a new CBA that will increase the average player compensation to over $500,000. Salaries last season carried an average of around $107,000 according to our data.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark finally looked like herself again in San Juan. Named MVP of the FIBA World Cup Qualifiers,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-545478","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\/545478","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=545478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}