{"id":453861,"date":"2026-02-07T05:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/453861\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T05:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:05:09","slug":"brionna-jones-four-time-all-star-suffers-torn-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/453861\/","title":{"rendered":"Brionna Jones, four-time All-Star, suffers torn ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WNBA and WNBAPA are still hashing things out in negotiations for the league\u2019s next collective bargaining agreement. One thing that feels like a certainty is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/47813218\/wnba-cba-collective-bargaining-agreement-negotiations-salary-cap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the league will have a player make over $1 million in salary for the first time.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A pay increase relative to the massive income the league is generating is one of the union\u2019s priorities. Last season, even stars like Indiana Fever point guard Caitlin Clark made a brutally low amount in base salary relative to the exponential financial growth of the league.<\/p>\n<p>This has led many, even some of the league\u2019s top players, to supplement thier income by playing in other leagues during the WNBA\u2019s offseason. Unrivaled, a three-on-three league, has emerged as a domestic option over the last couple of seasons, but a lot of players are still playing abroad.<\/p>\n<p>One of those players is four-time All-Stat Brionna Jones, who has been playing for the Czech club USK Praha. Unfortunately, the offseason leagues can take a physical toll, as Jones found out.<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA free agent suffered a torn ACL overseas and will miss the remainder of \u00a0USK Praha\u2019s season, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/47849901\/four-wnba-all-star-brionna-jones-torn-meniscus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">per ESPN\u2019s Alexa Philipopou.<\/a> Jones is set to return to the United States for reconstructive surgery.<\/p>\n<p>If a collective bargaining deal is agreed upon, the WNBA season will tip off on May 8, and Jones\u2019s injury serves as a harsh but critical reminder of why it\u2019s imperative that the WNBA starts to pay its players their worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA and WNBAPA are still hashing things out in negotiations for the league\u2019s next collective bargaining agreement.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[18417,99,434,143360],"class_list":{"0":"post-453861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-brionna-jones","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-wnba","11":"tag-wnba-cba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453861","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=453861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}