Dominate CBA Like Never Before: PWNBA Takes Over!
NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA and the players union will meet for the fifth straight day Saturday having a sense of urgency to get a deal done by Monday to avoid disruptions to the upcoming season. Both sides said Friday night that movement is being made toward a new CBA that would be transformational. They have spent approximately 50 hours discussing a new CBA since first getting together in person on Tuesday — the day the league had originally said there would need to be at least a handshake agreement for the season to start on time.
WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said Friday night that they need to get a deal done by Monday to avoid disruptions to the upcoming season. “I’ve never been a betting woman in my life and I’m not going to start now, but we have to get a deal by Monday,” Engelbert told reporters. “I should say we have to get it done without disrupting some part of the fact that we’ve got to run this two-team expansion (draft).
We have to get expansion going. We have to get free agency going. We got to get the college draft, which is now a month from today.
” The league's first two preseason games are on April 25 with Caitlin Clark and Indiana visiting New York and Seattle playing Golden State. “We have a fairly short preseason,” Engelbert said. “We have preseason games scheduled on April 25.
That’s what I first worry about. Those are some great games. ” Before the preseason games even happen, there's a lot to do with an expansion draft for Portland and Toronto as well as free agency for 80% of the league.