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Union: WNBA generated enough profit for revenue sharing
According to the Women's National Basketball Players Association, the WNBA reached a revenue benchmark to trigger revenue sharing with its players for the first time.,Union leadership told ESPN Monday that the 13 teams that played in 2025 will receive a total of $8 million to be dispersed among play...
ESPN replacing 'Sunday Night Baseball' with WNBA, NWSL games
With "Sunday Night Baseball" moving to NBC this season, ESPN revealed Thursday it has elected to fill its premium Sunday slot with WNBA and NWSL games and ancillary coverage.,"Women's Sports Sundays" will debut in prime time this summer. ESPN said 12 live games and accompanying studio segments will ...
Report: WNBA owners present modest CBA changes to players
The WNBA has at long last presented a CBA proposal to players, according to a report from Front Office Sports.,Following a six-week period of silence with no reported movement, league representatives met with players earlier this week to renew talks.,That Monday meeting, lacking from the players' pe...
Reports: WNBA offers no CBA proposal during meeting
Players expecting to receive a proposal from the WNBA about a new collective bargaining agreement walked away from Monday's meeting empty-handed.,Meeting for the first time in months, the two sides talked for about three hours at the league's New York offices.,However, the league still has not respo...
Report: WNBA, players union to hold CBA talks on Monday
The WNBA and its players association are scheduled to meet on Monday in New York to take up talks about a new collective bargaining agreement, ESPN reported Friday.,The sides have been unable to come to an agreement and have not held in-depth conversations this calendar year.,The WNBA's 30th season ...
Report: WNBA yet to respond to union’s December CBA proposal
The WNBA has yet to respond to the WNBA players union's collective bargaining proposal it provided nearly a month ago, Front Office Sports reported on Friday.,That lack of movement may put the start of the WNBA season, scheduled for May, in jeopardy, according to multiple sources who spoke with the ...
Reports: WNBA, WNBPA agree to moratorium on league business
The WNBA and Women's National Basketball Players Association agreed to a moratorium on league business, specifically free agency, according to several reports Monday.,The sides failed to reach a deal for a new collective bargaining agreement by Friday's deadline, which had already been extended twic...
WNBA, players won’t extend CBA deadline; ‘status quo’ period expected
The WNBA and the Women's National Basketball Players Association will not extend the previous collective bargaining agreement before Friday's deadline.,As New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart first told reporters Thursday, the two sides remain far apart on multiple issues and were not going to hamm...
Lynx star Napheesa Collier to have surgery on ankles
WNBA superstar Napheesa Collier will miss the upcoming Unrivaled season and be sidelined for four to six months following scheduled surgery on both ankles.,Unrivaled, the 3-on-3 league Collier co-founded with Breanna Stewart, announced the surgeries and timeline on Thursday, saying that all options ...
Report: WNBA, players association not close on CBA as deadline looms
With 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 ...
WNBA players vote to strike 'when necessary' amid labor talks
The WNBA Players Association said Thursday that its members have authorized its executive committee to call for a strike "when necessary" as labor negotiations continue with the league.,"The players have spoken," the WNBPA said in a statement. "Through a decisive vote with historic participation, ou...
Report: WNBA offers $1M max base salary plus revenue sharing
The latest proposal made by the WNBA in collective bargaining negotiations with the players' union would guarantee a $1 million base in salary for players on max deals, ESPN reported Monday.,The total earnings for max players could exceed $1.2 million when factoring in revenue sharing, which would s...
WNBA, players union extend CBA to new Jan. 9 deadline
The WNBA and WNBA Players Association agreed late Sunday night to extend their collective bargaining agreement until Jan. 9, 2026, and continue negotiations toward a new agreement.,The announcement came just before the CBA's expiration at 11:59 p.m. ET on Sunday, which was the first extension after ...
Reports: WNBA proposal includes max salaries over $1.1M
The WNBA proposed a maximum player salary of more than $1.1 million in the latest round of collective bargaining negotiations this week, multiple reports said Tuesday.,The league's CBA proposal, which would include revenue sharing, would set the league minimum at more than $220,000 and allow more th...
How the WNBA Could Learn from an Outrageously Simple NBA Fix
A bold idea for the WNBA: scrap drafts and form NBA-style teams by birth year. Here’s how it could reshape basketball and spark fan excitement....
Reports: WNBA, union agree to extend CBA to Nov. 30
The WNBA and the Women's National Basketball Players Association approved a 30-day extension of the current collective bargaining agreement, The Athletic and ESPN reported Thursday.,As the league and the union work on negotiating a new CBA, they faced a Friday deadline before the current agreement e...
WNBPA counsel: CBA deal by deadline 'not going to happen'
The WNBA and the players' union are unlikely to reach a new collective bargaining agreement by Friday's deadline.,Erin Drake, legal counsel for the Women's National Basketball Players Association, said it's "not going to happen.",The two sides will continue to meet this week but are said to remain f...
Caitlin Clark 'honored' to return to The Annika pro-am
Caitlin Clark fever will return to the LPGA Tour next month when the WNBA superstar makes another appearance at The Annika pro-am in Belleair, Fla.,Thousands of fans lined the fairways last year to watch the Indiana Fever guard compete in the event. One of Clark's many endorsement deals is with Gain...
ESPN networks break WNBA viewership records
Broadcasts of the WNBA regular season and postseason were the most-watched ever across ABC, ESPN and ESPN2.,For 25 regular season games, WNBA action on ESPN networks averaged 1.3 million viewers, up 6% year-over-year. The numbers across 24 postseason games were up 5% with an average of 1.2 million v...
WNBA postseason draws record audience on ESPN
The WNBA postseason delivered record ratings to ESPN throughout September and October, the network announced Tuesday.,The 2025 playoffs were the most-watched ever on ESPN, with an average of 1.2 million viewers across 24 games -- up 5% from 2024.,Game 1 of the Finals between the Las Vegas Aces and P...