After the 2024 WNBA season concluded, the WNBPA (the league’s players’ union) opted out of the final two years of its collective bargaining agreement (CBA). The current CBA will expire at the end of the 2025 season, and negotiations have already started between the union and the WNBA.
Their current agreement was reached in January of 2020 — before the boom of women’s sports, before Caitlin Clark even went to college at Iowa, and before the WNBA signed an 11-year media rights deal valued at over $2.2 billion. So much has changed for the players and the league in this time, and the expectation is that the next CBA
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