{"id":261641,"date":"2025-10-30T22:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T22:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261641\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T22:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T22:35:11","slug":"napheesa-collier-bashes-wnba-cba-as-illegal-before-negotiation-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261641\/","title":{"rendered":"Napheesa Collier bashes WNBA CBA as \u2018illegal\u2019 before negotiation deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"

The post Napheesa Collier bashes WNBA CBA as \u2018illegal\u2019 before negotiation deadline<\/a> appeared first on ClutchPoints<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Napheesa Collier<\/a> earned yet another career honor as one of the five women\u2019s basketball players chosen among the 2025 Glamour Women of the Year, and she used the opportunity to voice her thoughts on the chaos surrounding the WNBA CBA (collective bargaining agreement) negotiations.<\/p>\n

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In her interview with Glamour, which took place before Collier\u2019s scathing viral speech that called out the WNBA\u2019s leadership<\/a> in late September, the Minnesota Lynx<\/a> star didn\u2019t hold back when discussing the league\u2019s existing CBA.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are being so grossly, almost, taken advantage of, and it should be illegal,\u201d Collier declared. \u201cThe amount of money that Caitlin Clark has made the league is insane, and she\u2019s getting 0% of it because we have no [revenue] share. She gets less than $80,000 a year, and she\u2019s bringing in, like, hundreds of millions of dollars. It\u2019s insane.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the overwhelmingly loud support the W\u2019s players have received, from politicians to fellow athletes, some have been just as vocal in criticizing their efforts. Even a WNBA legend was among the dissenting voices when Candace Parker called out the 2025 All-Stars<\/a> for not \u201cmaximizing the moment\u201d by playing hard in the All-Star Game and showing off everything they\u2019re capable of.<\/p>\n

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Collier also had a direct clapback to that line of criticism, pointing out how many players had been suffering injuries due to the intensity of the season\u2019s schedule. \u201cWe could not go hard in that game because you\u2019re adding another game to our already packed season, where people are dropping [like] flies,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

As the October 31 CBA negotiation deadline approached, a representative from the league told Glamour that, despite the very public fallout, they\u2019re on the players\u2019 side with some of the issues being discussed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the WNBA has stated repeatedly, we agree with the players that they deserve to be paid more and, importantly, to participate in the success and growth of the league by sharing in revenue,\u201d the W\u2019s spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe comprehensive proposal we provided to the Players Association includes both significant guaranteed salary cap increases and substantial uncapped revenue sharing that enables player salaries to grow as the league\u2019s business grows,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/p>\n

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However, WNBPA executive director Terri Carmichael Jackson maintains that more talks are still needed for both sides to be fully on the same page.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur player leadership remains focused on meaningful progress. Whether a deal is reached by the deadline remains to be seen, but we\u2019re prepared to keep doing the work until it is right,\u201d Jackson said in her statement to Glamour.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll keep pushing until this league finally reflects the value of the women who make it run,\u201d Jackson finished.<\/p>\n

Collier also joked that the league is \u201ctoo sensitive\u201d when it comes to doling out fines<\/a> over player comments. When the question of whether she herself would face a fine for the declarations she made in this interview came up, Collier remained unfazed and stood solidly in her conviction.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI can talk about whatever I want to talk about,\u201d Collier boldly responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The post Napheesa Collier bashes WNBA CBA as \u2018illegal\u2019 before negotiation deadline appeared first on ClutchPoints. Napheesa Collier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[1760,12548,12549,141107,14400,1077,3250,99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-261641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-caitlin-clark","9":"tag-cba","10":"tag-collective-bargaining-agreement","11":"tag-glamour-women","12":"tag-jonquel-jones","13":"tag-minnesota-lynx","14":"tag-napheesa-collier","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261641","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=261641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}