In the early hours of Wednesday morning, the WNBA and the Women’s National Basketball Players’ Association reached a handshake agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement, which they billed as “transformational.”
The landmark deal, which still awaits approval from the rank-and-file and the WNBA Board of Governors, includes soaring salaries, a radically improved revenue-share model for players and better play benefits.
Among the most notable changes is a salary cap starting at $7 million in 2026 — up from $1.5 million in 2025 — and an average of 20 percent revenue share across the lifetime of the deal, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania.
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