{"id":186778,"date":"2026-04-06T04:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186778\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T04:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:28:15","slug":"wnba-free-agency-set-to-open-monday-with-a-fast-track-window-for-offers-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186778\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA free agency set to open Monday, with a fast-track window for offers \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/tag\/wnba\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"11843\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WNBA<\/a> and its players\u2019 union agreed to start free agency on Monday, the league announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Teams will have two days to send qualifying offers to players who they have reserved rights for. Teams will also have a chance to offer a franchise tag to one player who is eligible to be cored.<\/p>\n<p>Then, starting Wednesday, teams can begin meeting with unrestricted free agents, with the ability to offer them contracts starting Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>More than 80% of the league\u2019s players are free agents this year, as players had signed deals that expired at the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p>There are only two veteran players who aren\u2019t under rookie contracts that are signed for this season \u2014 Seattle&#8217;s Lexie Brown and Phoenix&#8217;s Kalani Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Usually teams have a few weeks to court free agents to join their franchise. There\u2019s a chance that many players may just re-sign with their current teams for a year and revisit free agency after the season.<\/p>\n<p>Players could also go after the money and accept a bigger contract from a team they might not know as much about.<\/p>\n<p>The college draft is scheduled for April 13 in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA and its players\u2019 union agreed on a new collective bargaining agreement last month. The new seven-year CBA, which begins this season and runs through 2032, represents a transformational landmark labor deal for the league. The deal was unanimously ratified by the WNBA Board of Governors and approved through a players\u2019 vote.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSabrina Ionescu talks about the Abbott Dream Team program, shares advice for young athletes at tryouts, and says her WNBA preparation has remained business as usual during CBA talks.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA and its players\u2019 union agreed to start free agency on Monday, the league announced Sunday. Teams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56,11452],"class_list":{"0":"post-186778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}