{"id":587640,"date":"2026-04-07T08:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/587640\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:35:09","slug":"2026-wnba-free-agency-dates-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/587640\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 WNBA Free Agency Dates Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-258026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/logo26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"51\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, Apr. 5, 2026 \u2013 The WNBA and the Women\u2019s National Basketball Players Association agreed today that free agency will open tomorrow, April 6, with the start of the Designation Period, the WNBA announced today.<\/p>\n<p>The Negotiation Period will begin on Wednesday, April 8 and continue for three days. Teams and players will first be able to sign new contracts beginning on Saturday, April 11.<\/p>\n<p>2026 WNBA FREE AGENCY TIMELINE<\/p>\n<p>April 6-7, 2026<br \/>\nDesignation Period (Qualifying Offers and Core Player Designations must be sent)<\/p>\n<p>April 8-10, 2026<br \/>\nNegotiation Period<\/p>\n<p>April 11, 2026<br \/>\nSignings may commence<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK, Apr. 5, 2026 \u2013 The WNBA and the Women\u2019s National Basketball Players Association agreed today that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-587640","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\/587640","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=587640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}