{"id":163480,"date":"2025-09-17T16:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/163480\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T16:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:01:06","slug":"lsu-guard-flaujae-johnsons-values-emblematic-of-wnbas-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/163480\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU guard Flau\u2019jae Johnson&#8217;s values emblematic of WNBA\u2019s changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">LSU G FLAU\u2019JAE JOHNSON was profiled by TEEN VOGUE\u2019s Ruth Samuel, who noted Johnson\u2019s ethos \u201corganically aligns with the women of the WNBPA\u201d as the group negotiates the next CBA. When Johnson walks into a brand meeting, she \u201cseeks to open doors, she says, not just for herself but for the young women after her.\u201d That means \u201cnegotiating for her worth.\u201d Johnson, discussing the WNBA CBA, said it is \u201cnot about getting paid like the NBA players; it\u2019s just about getting paid our due percentage of the revenue share. It\u2019s something that\u2019s got to be fixed, and it\u2019s deserved from a lot of work being put in for it.\u201d Johnson also discussed the fashion of the league, saying there \u201cwasn\u2019t really any femininity\u201d in the past. Samuel noted there has recently \u201cbeen a shift.\u201d The league Johnson will enter into in 2026 \u201clooks much different from the WNBA of the past &#8212; and as a player, so does Johnson.\u201d She wrote as viewership of women\u2019s basketball has risen, we have \u201calso seen an increase in\u202fWNBA players attending\u202for\u202fwalking in New York Fashion Week.\u201d Brands \u201chave been flocking to invest in the WNBA.\u201d Johnson said, \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of individuality. Women know how to rock it well, and brands love that. \u2026 I think it\u2019s just the perfect time with the rise of women\u2019s basketball, but also just fashion\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/flaujae-johnson-september-fashion-cover-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TEEN VOGUE, 9\/16<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LSU G FLAU\u2019JAE JOHNSON was profiled by TEEN VOGUE\u2019s Ruth Samuel, who noted Johnson\u2019s ethos \u201corganically aligns with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[690,99,434],"class_list":["post-163480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-culture","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}