{"id":94679,"date":"2025-08-19T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/94679\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:12:07","slug":"young-wnba-players-gaining-business-insight-through-cba-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/94679\/","title":{"rendered":"Young WNBA players gaining business insight through CBA negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a growing group of players \u201cgetting involved in the WNBA\u2019s contentious labor negotiations,\u201d according to Kareem Copeland of the WASHINGTON POST. The WNBPA is eyeing a new CBA that will \u201cearn it a larger slice of revenue,\u201d and a meeting at All-Star Weekend last month \u201cprovided a glimpse of that struggle.\u201d Forty players attended the meeting<\/a>, \u201cshowing their commitment to a better deal\u201d after they opted out of the current CBA<\/a> last year. There is \u201ca long way to go before the sides agree on a deal,\u201d but when that agreement nears its end, these negotiations \u201cwill be valuable to the next generation.\u201d These players \u201cmight be uniquely prepared, given that they received lessons in the business side of sports\u201d as NIL issues \u201cerupted during their collegiate careers.\u201d That young group \u201cgot its first taste of in-person labor negotiations, featuring lawyers, the WNBPA executive committee, Commissioner Cathy Engelbert<\/a> and the WNBA labor relations committee.\u201d Mystics rookie G Sonia Citron \u201cnoted the complications when she attended the meeting in Indianapolis.\u201d Revenue sharing \u201creceived the most attention, but there\u2019s minutia in contract structure, the free agency environment, benefits, medical coverage, injury provisions and discipline\u201d (WASHINGTON POST, 8\/18<\/a>).<\/p>\n

COMING INTO FOCUS: SBJ\u2019s Abe Madkour, citing sources, said that league officials were \u201cfrustrated\u201d by the players wearing \u201cPay Us What You Owe Us<\/a>\u201d T-shirts at the All-Star Weekend. Some are \u201ccurious\u201d how players would approach negotiations<\/a> when looking at the shirts \u201ccombined with the players\u2019 understandably bold declarations that they won\u2019t settle for less considering all the new revenue coming into the league.\u201d On the management side, \u201clook to see how public it will be in countering that the league\u2019s revenue isn\u2019t nearly what the players believe it to be.\u201d Additionally, what is the \u201crisk tolerance in stifling the league\u2019s growth?\u201d The league and players should \u201cfeel bullish about the future and you can\u2019t, in good conscience, put that at risk with an ugly public labor dispute<\/a>.\u201d The players \u201chope public sentiment will be on their side,\u201d while WNBA leaders will be \u201ccareful not to engage in a PR battle or be perceived as dismissive to player demands\u201d (Abe Madkour, SBJ<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a growing group of players \u201cgetting involved in the WNBA\u2019s contentious labor negotiations,\u201d according to Kareem…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[64021,6856,99,434],"class_list":["post-94679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-athlete-performance","tag-leadership","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94679","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=94679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}