As expected, the WNBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement expired without a new extension in the early hours of Saturday. After two previous extensions of the original Oct. 31 deadline, the deal has officially expired, but there are no signs of an imminent work stoppage from either the WNBA or the WNBPA, the players’ association. Instead, we now enter a status quo period, where the sides can continue to negotiate under the same rules of the previous contract. Yet, they are also now (by definition of letting the agreement expire) more open to exploring a strike or lockout in the coming weeks.
There are a few different scenarios we could see play
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