{"id":549303,"date":"2026-03-20T16:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549303\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:11:09","slug":"fever-have-a-1-4-million-caitlin-clark-kelsey-mitchell-aliyah-boston-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549303\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever have a $1.4 million Caitlin Clark, Kelsey Mitchell, Aliyah Boston problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indiana Fever have three All-Star players, two of whom were selected to All-WNBA teams in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The problem that might create is that Indiana can&#8217;t pay them all.<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA&#8217;s new collective bargaining agreement, which is still pending formalization by the league&#8217;s Board of Governors, will raise the <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/wnba\/news\/wnba-new-cba-player-contracts-salary-cap\/6a2adb0dcb8cc8ccfc3ac973\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">salary cap<\/a> to $7 million per team, a significant increase that will pave the way for historic pay hikes for all players.<\/p>\n<p>That includes the league&#8217;s elite, like Aliyah Boston, Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell, who all are eligible to sign supermax contracts as soon as this year.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/wnba\/indiana-fever\/news\/how-new-cba-impacts-wnba-highest-salaries-kelsey-mitchell-aja-wilson-caitlin-clark\/b4c07034e04c7c1135e23511\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How new CBA impacts WNBA&#8217;s highest salaries, from Kelsey Mitchell and A&#8217;ja Wilson to Caitlin Clark<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mitchell, a pending free agent who holds the Fever&#8217;s single-season points per game record, is eligible to sign a supermax contract worth $1.4 million per year after she was selected to the All-WNBA first team in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Boston, a three-time All-Star across three WNBA seasons, is in the last year of her rookie-scale contract and will be getting a pay raise anyway, with the league&#8217;s new average salary set to fall around $600,000.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Teams in WNBA with a Supermax player <\/p>\n<p>FEVER <br \/>Caitlin Clark <br \/>Kelsey Mitchell <br \/>Aliyah Boston <\/p>\n<p>Los Vegas Aces <br \/>Aja Wilson <br \/>Chelsea Gray <\/p>\n<p>New York Liberty <br \/>Breanna Stewart <br \/>Sabrina Ionescu <br \/>Jonquil Jones <\/p>\n<p>Minnesota <br \/>Napheesa Collier <\/p>\n<p>Dream <br \/>Rhyne Howard <\/p>\n<p>Wings <br \/>Paige Bueckers<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CT Smith (@scaryman42) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scaryman42\/status\/2034320533446115622?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 18, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Clark, though, is not eligible to sign a supermax until 2027, when she enters the fourth and final year of her rookie contract. And she has something to prove in 2026, as she comes off an injury-plagued second season in The W.<\/p>\n<p>If all three of these players earn the max, then Fever general manager Amber Cox will have precious few resources to fill out the roster in the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>Boston or Mitchell could agree to take less than the supermax in order to maintain roster flexibility. But with salaries reaching unprecedented heights, the days of stars taking less may soon be at an end.<\/p>\n<p>It creates an interesting conundrum for the Fever, who want Mitchell back at all costs while\u00a0viewing Clark as a paradigm-altering superstar and understanding that Boston is one of the best all-around bigs in the league.<\/p>\n<p>More WNBA news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indiana Fever have three All-Star players, two of whom were selected to All-WNBA teams in 2025. 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