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NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA and its players’ union are meeting for a sixth straight day on Sunday in hopes of getting a collective bargaining agreement finished in a timely fashion to avoid any potential delays to the upcoming season.
It’s been a marathon week of discussions with the two sides getting together for more than 60 hours since the first in-person bargaining session on Tuesday.
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Sunday’s session began around noon EDT with Nneka Ogwumike, Breanna Stewart, Napheesa Collier and Alysha Clark back in attendance on the union’s side. Brianna Turner arrived a few hours later.
Revenue sharing and housing are still key sticking points.
“It’s very important for us to nail those two things down, which is I think the biggest thing on the agenda today,” Ogwumike, the union’s president, said Saturday between bargaining sessions. “So we want to make sure that we can get that.”
League proposals have involved net revenue — revenue after expenses — and union ones have talked about gross revenue — revenue before expenses.
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When negotiations first started more than a year ago, the union was asking for 40% of gross revenue and had come down to 26% before the marathon in-person bargaining session Tuesday. The league had been offering more than 70% net revenue for the players.
“We’ve talked a lot about revenue share, which that’s obviously going to be, I don’t even really like calling it the elephant in the room. Like it’s there, you know, like we’re going to talk about it,” Ogwumike said. “But housing is big, you know, and housing is really big. And I think that perhaps people understanding this negotiation or learning about it has really shown how meaningful something like a housing benefit is, especially for the women in the W.”
Teams have paid for player housing in the WNBA since the beginning and the league wanted to amend that in the new CBA.
“We’re trying to enter into this transitional space where we are now making enough money toward to be able to take care of that, but we’re not quite at the point where we can eliminate it outright,” Ogwumike…
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Author : DOUG FEINBERG
Publish date : 2026-03-15 20:37:00
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