The Women\u2019s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the league\u2019s players\u2019 union said Friday they had reached a tentative agreement on a \u201cgroundbreaking\u201d seven-year labour deal after months of tense negotiations.<\/p>\n
The new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), which will commence with the 2026 season and run through 2032, will see the salary cap skyrocket from US$1.5 million to US$7 million in 2026 and will adjust annually based on league and team revenue growth, the league and union said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 2026 CBA establishes the first comprehensive revenue-sharing model in women\u2019s professional sports history,\u201d the statement said. \u201cThis groundbreaking model provides unlimited upside for players as league and team revenues continue to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Under the new deal, the league\u2019s top players will gain the ability to sign the first multimillion-dollar contracts in WNBA history.<\/p>\n
Maximum-contract players will earn a salary of US$1.4 million in 2026 that is expected to grow to more than US$2.4 million by 2032, based on current financial projections.<\/p>\n
The league\u2019s average salary is expected to be US$583,000 in 2026 and increase to over US$1 million by 2032.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Women\u2019s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the league\u2019s players\u2019 union said Friday they had reached a tentative…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,11628,9963,214035,736,729,4653,164059,82,630,95013,56438,96421],"class_list":["post-550881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cathy-engelbert","tag-collective-bargaining-agreement","tag-labour-deal","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-napheesa-collier","tag-nneka-ogwumike","tag-revenue-sharing-model","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-commissioner","tag-wnbpa","tag-womens-national-basketball-players-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550881","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=550881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}