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Alexa PhilippouApr 5, 2026, 10:11 PM ET<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Multiple Authors<\/p>\n The WNBA and WNBPA agreed that free agency will begin on Monday, the league announced Sunday evening.<\/p>\n The designation period, including sending qualifying offers and core player designations, will be held Monday and Tuesday. Negotiations will run Wednesday through Friday and signings will begin Saturday.<\/p>\n The WNBA draft is set for April 13.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks 1 Related<\/p>\n The WNBA and WNBPA verbally agreed to the terms of a new collective bargaining agreement March 18. Both sides ratified the terms a week later, but the long-form document is still being completed.<\/p>\n Over 100 players are free agents and will benefit from the massive salary bumps featured in the new deal.<\/p>\n Training camps are set to begin April 19 and then preseason games April 25. The first day of the regular season is May 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexa PhilippouApr 5, 2026, 10:11 PM ET CloseCovers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-585446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585446","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=585446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPreviously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant
\nStanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775463436_922_r1637486_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
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