{"id":558551,"date":"2026-03-25T00:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/558551\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T00:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:02:19","slug":"longer-seasons-incoming-for-wnba-seattle-storm-fans-emerald-city-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/558551\/","title":{"rendered":"Longer Seasons Incoming For WNBA, Seattle Storm Fans \u2014 Emerald City Spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"sqsrte-large\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">Longer WNBA seasons are on the near horizon for Seattle Storm basketball fans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"sqsrte-large\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">The WNBA board of governors unanimously ratified the new collective bargaining agreement between the league and the players union on Tuesday, per the Associated Press, leaving just the long-form document to be written up before the agreement is finalized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"sqsrte-large\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">Included in the new CBA, in addition to the landmark increases in salaries for players, is the framework for substantially longer seasons, per ESPN\u2019s Alexa Philippou and Kendra Andrews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longer WNBA seasons are on the near horizon for Seattle Storm basketball fans. The WNBA board of governors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-558551","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\/558551","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=558551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}