{"id":593506,"date":"2026-04-09T23:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593506\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T23:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:14:08","slug":"sparks-sky-discussing-big-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593506\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparks, Sky Discussing Big Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"73\">Welcome to the WNBA\u2019s free agency period. It\u2019s been a long time coming.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"76\">Thanks to the WNBPA and the league <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/new-cba-wnba-venturing-into-transformative-future\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement<\/a> last month, this year\u2019s free agents are set to make a lot more money. The W\u2019s salary cap is reportedly soaring from $1.5 million to $7 million, which should usher in an unprecedented and lucrative era for players looking for new homes. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"79\">With the Toronto Tempo and Portland Fire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/2026-wnba-expansion-draft-live-updates-toronto-portland-build-their-foundations-for-the-future\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrapping up their expansion draft<\/a>, the free agency period serves as a crucial time for teams to rebuild and revamp their rosters with a wide pool of talent available in 2026. Though a majority of the league are technically considered free agents, some players have already taken themselves off the market, like Breanna Stewart and Sabrina Ionescu.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7c\">Follow along in Sports Illustrated\u2019s live blog on all the biggest updates from WNBA free agency heading into the new season.<\/p>\n<p>2026 WNBA Free Agency Tracker Live Updates: Sparks, Sky Discussing Big Trade More WNBA from Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the WNBA\u2019s free agency period. It\u2019s been a long time coming. Thanks to the WNBPA and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-593506","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\/593506","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=593506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}