{"id":568254,"date":"2026-04-06T17:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/568254\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:40:07","slug":"wnba-free-agency-begins-with-a-fast-track-window-for-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/568254\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA free agency begins, with a fast-track window for offers"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 The WNBA and its players\u2019 union agreed to start free agency on Monday<\/a>, the league announced Sunday.<\/p>\n

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

Then, starting Wednesday, teams can begin meeting with unrestricted free agents, with the ability to offer them contracts starting Saturday.<\/p>\n

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

There are only two veteran players who aren\u2019t under rookie contracts that are signed for this season \u2014 Seattle\u2019s Lexie Brown and Phoenix\u2019s Kalani Brown.<\/p>\n

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

Players could also go after the money and accept a bigger contract from a team they might not know as much about.<\/p>\n

The WNBA Draft is scheduled for April 13 in New York.<\/p>\n

The WNBA and its players\u2019 union agreed on a new collective bargaining agreement<\/a> 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

Seattle Storm lose Nika M\u00fchl to Portland in WNBA Expansion Draft<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 The WNBA and its players\u2019 union agreed to start free agency on Monday, the league…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-568254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568254","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=568254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}