WNBA & WNBPA Announce $15 Million + 2023 Season Extension Deal!

Oct 3, 2025; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert talks during a presser before the start of game one of the 2025 WNBA Finals between the Phoenix Mercury and the Las Vegas Aces at Michelob Ultra Arena NEW YORK -- Looking like a season, how u ? After eight straight days and over 100 hours of talks, the WNBA and the Players' Association finally came to an agreement for their next Collective Bargaining Agreement. Annie Costabile of Front Office Sports broke the news.

BREAKING: The WNBA and WNBPA have reached a tentative verbal agreement for a new CBA, sources tell me. Term sheet will now go to the players and WNBA Board of Governors for a vote to ratify the new agreement. — Annie Costabile (@AnnieCostabile) March 18, 2026 With the WNBA season in danger of being delayed, the league and its players came to an agreement at the 11th hour.

After the league famously went six weeks without a proposal , they made a deadline date of March 10th for them to come up with an agreement or else the season would get delayed. March 10th came and went and then WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said that they had to get this done by Monday, March 16th . While that date passed by as well, they continued to negotiate before they came to this agreement on early Wednesday morning.

The CBA hasn't been released yet but the agreement was all about the salary cap, revenue share, and housing, among other things. The league should be giving players million dollar salaries for the first time in their history. The Players' Union wanted a $10.