{"id":620675,"date":"2026-04-22T08:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/620675\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:41:12","slug":"stephanie-white-baffled-by-indiana-fevers-player-contracts-under-new-wnba-cba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/620675\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie White Baffled by Indiana Fever&#8217;s Player Contracts Under New WNBA CBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a lot of pressure on Stephanie White heading into her second season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/wnba\/indiana-fever\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Fever<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The former <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> Coach of the Year joined the Fever ahead of the 2025 season with high hopes. Unfortunately, injuries to <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/tag\/caitlin-clark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin Clark<\/a> and other key players got in the way of White\u2019s debut season.<\/p>\n<p>White, however, still led the team to the Commissioner\u2019s Cup title in 2025. The Fever also progressed to the semifinals of the WNBA playoffs despite dealing with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/45927791\/fever-lose-sydney-colson-aari-mcdonald-rest-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">full-blown injury crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With a Clark-led, fully healthy roster heading into the new season, White is expected to deliver even better results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a lot of pressure on Stephanie White heading into her second season with the Indiana Fever. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-620675","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\/620675","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=620675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}