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WNBPA: 'We will not be pawns' in political conversationAs discussion surrounding transgender athletes and whether they should be allowed to compete in women's sports continues to run rampant, the WNBA Player's Association put out a statement which made its stance on the matter known.,"The WNBPA represents 200+ individual people with different lived expe...

Report: WNBA, players association not close on CBA as deadline loomsWith just over a week remaining until the Jan. 9 deadline for a new WNBA collective bargaining agreement, the league and the Women's National Basketball Players Association are not close to a deal, ESPN reported on Wednesday.,The report indicates that the league and players association are very far ...

The NFL and NBA players associations are taking questionable leadership routesThe first collective bargaining agreement in the history of professional sports was signed by the MLB and MLBPA in 1966. At that time the executive director of the MLBPA was the late Marvin Miller, formerly a union negotiator for workers of U.S. Steel. His fierce advocacy for labor rights is largely...

NBA Agents Refuse NCAA's Latest Bullshit Regulatory Proposal

The National Basketball Players Association sent a letter to the NCAA on behalf of player agents that outlines those agents’ refusal to be a part of a new certification process that the collegiate association wants to implement. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski obtained the signed letter and tweeted it out...

The WNBA Players Union Is Headed Towards Labor War, But Its Leader Is Nowhere To Be Found<em></em>

Back in July, at the WNBA All-Star weekend in Minneapolis, a league official sidled up to me and asked me a question. Did I know how much money the WNBA had lost last season?...

Report: NBA Teams Want Unfettered Access To Medical Records Of Prospects Before Killing One-And-Done

The infamous one-and-done policy that the NBA put forward in 2005 is almost dead, but the league and the National Basketball Players Association are still a couple obstacles away from fully killing it, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski....

NBA Union Chief Is Tired Of Everyone Complaining About The Cap Spike

The head of the NBA Players Association, Michele Roberts, has read and heard the resurgence of opinions that blame the current state of the NBA—one in which the Warriors are an invincible superteam, DeMarcus Cousins can be had for the mid-level exception, and solid free agents can’t get reasonable o...

The NBPA's Decision In 2016 Is Why This Season Is Already Over

The National Basketball Players Association had two choices heading into the 2016 offseason regarding the salary cap, which was due to spike dramatically on account of a huge revenue influx: Smooth out the cap and increase it incrementally over the course of several years, or take it all in one lum...