$1.1 million<\/a>\u00a0with whichever team signs her as\u00a0a recipient of the WNBA\u2019s new \u2018Veteran Max\u2019 tier, the four-time All-Star guard could price herself out of joining another team, given the league\u2019s $7 million salary cap.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\nThat\u2019s\u00a0part of the\u00a0reason why\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0giving\u00a0Ogunbowale\u2019s\u00a0current team such commanding odds, but also because Dallas needs a star to complement Bueckers\u2019 rise, potentially following in the footsteps of the Indiana Fever, who went from the league\u2019s basement to WNBA Semifinals in 2025.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Where Could Arike\u00a0Ogunbowale\u00a0Go?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Should\u00a0Ogunbowale\u00a0leave the Lone Star State, keep an eye on the free-spending Chicago Sky, who are our top outside contender at +350 (or 22.2%), while the expansion Portland Fire\u00a0check\u00a0in at +400.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Given that the WNBA\u2019s expansion draft for the Fire and Toronto Tempo is slated for Friday, Portland might have excess cash to splash around, which could help them land a top-tier free agent like\u00a0Ogunbowale.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Should Portland whiff on her, though,\u00a0there\u2019s\u00a0a shot that their fellow expansion mates from north of the border could, with Toronto checking in at +450 for similar reasons to the Fire.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Outside of those clubs, keep an eye on the Atlanta Dream (+700) and the aforementioned Fever (+900) in the\u00a0Ogunbowale\u00a0sweepstakes, as both teams look to build on promising seasons, with Atlanta going 30-14 and finishing with the league\u2019s third-best record, while Indiana was 24-20, four games better than where they finished the year before and 11 wins more than the year before that.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 30th, 2026 12:32 PM EDT Can the Wings keep Ogunbowale long-term? (USATODAY) Now that the WNBA\u2019s CBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-554563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554563","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=554563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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