Agreement on WNBA contract

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WNBA, players' union reach verbal agreement on new CBA terms

After a prolonged labor battle, the WNBA and players' union have reached a verbal agreement on the terms for a new CBA. Sources told ESPN that the salary cap will start at $7 million and raise the average salary to around $600,000.

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It sounds like the WNBA players and owners have reached a verbal agreement on a new CBA

Under the new CBA, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania, the salary cap will start at $7 million (up from $1.5 million in 2025) with the supermax starting at $1.4 million (was $249,244 in 2025). The average salary will be around $600,000 ($120,000 in 2025), with the minimum salary surpassing $300,000 ($66,079 in 2025), sources said.

Sources said the average revenue share would be nearly 20% across the length of the deal.

Sounds like Caitlin Clark, Kate Martin, Lucy Olson and Megan Gustasfon are going to get a a huge raise.

 

[Hawkfnntn]

Caitlin says you're welcome everyone now let's play ball. The hot stove part of their off season should be nuts. Pretty much every vet had set their previous contracts up so they'd all be a FA now leading up to this. They are adding 2 teams to the league so these next few weeks are gonna be nuts

 

[Gander Hawk]

Caitlin says you're welcome everyone now let's play ball. The hot stove part of their off season should be nuts. Pretty much every vet had set their previous contracts up so they'd all be a FA now leading up to this. They are adding 2 teams to the league so these next few weeks are gonna be nuts

Right, they now have to squeeze in an expansion draft, college draft, and free agency before they start playing in April. I was already concerned that their preseason is too short and leads to sloppy play early in the season.

 

[Hawkfnntn]

Right, they now have to squeeze in an expansion draft, college draft, and free agency before they start playing in April. I was already concerned that their preseason is too short and leads to sloppy play early in the season.

It's a lot... But they have it scheduled out and the season itself should start on time as scheduled anyway.

Yeah the gap between the college kids getting drafted and starting to play is way too short always has been. Caitlin I believe played 80 competitive games that first calendar year without much of a break coming from college. Rookies often have a hell of a time starting out and she was no different. It took her awhile to get her footing and figure somethings out. But once she did...

 

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It's a lot... But they have it scheduled out and the season itself should start on time as scheduled anyway.

Yeah the gap between the college kids getting drafted and starting to play is way too short always has been. Caitlin I believe played 80 competitive games that first calendar year without much of a break coming from college. Rookies often have a hell of a time starting out and she was no different. It took her awhile to get her footing and figure somethings out. But once she did...

The funny part is Caitlin was still technically enrolled in school and finishing up her senior season and then graduated in May, all while she moved to Indy in April and started working out and playing in games with the Fever

 

[Hawkfnntn]

The funny part is Caitlin was still technically enrolled in school and finishing up her senior season and then graduated in May, all while she moved to Indy in April and started working out and playing in games with the Fever

Yeah she took that seriously. She was getting her degree. I wonder what the graduation rate difference is between the men and women these days...