The WNBA’s collective bargaining agreement expires at the end of the upcoming season, and some of the league’s best and most influential players are discussing their futures.
During the latest episode of her podcast “Unapologetically Angel,” Angel Reese and DiJonai Carrington discussed the potential for a lockout.
“I got to get in the meetings, because I’m hearing like, if y’all don’t give us what we want, we sitting out,” Reese said, stressing that she wants to have her voice heard and her needs met when it comes to negotiations.
Reese also acknowledged that the players who come in after a new CBA is established are likely to make more money on their rookie contracts – a key point in the bargaining efforts for the new agreement.
Reese was criticized for her comments, as some fans argued that the WNBA wasn’t profitable enough for players to ask for a greater share of revenue.
One account even said that Reese “demanded” to be paid as much as her NBA counterparts. After seeing her words misconstrued, Reese took to social media to defend herself.
“I love how yall have selective hearing. I said ‘I’m hearing if they don’t give us what we want, we sitting out’ and that’s the truth. I never said anything about the NBA,” Reese said on X Saturday afternoon.
“We are prepared to stay at the negotiating table for as long as it takes.”
Reese then provided a link to the episode in order for those interested to hear the full context, and added that she “will continue to use my voice to speak for what WE want & deserve as a league.”
ARLINGTON, TX – MAY 15: Angel Reese #5 of the Chicago Sky looks on before the game against the Dallas Wings on May 15, 2024 at the College Park Center in Arlington, TX.
Michael Gonzales/Getty Images
Reese and Carrington each participated in Unrivaled, a new three-on-three league that promised players better offseason pay and benefits they may not have received from their WNBA teams.
Players enjoyed the experience and have advocated for some of the same changes to be made in the more established league. They’ve opted out of the current CBA and will play under the current rules for the 2025 season.
We’ll see what happens in negotiations over the next several months, and if Reese and her counterparts decide to hold out until their needs are met.
News
He Forced Me to the Ground for Walking in My Own Country — He Had No Idea I Was the FBI Agent About to Destroy Everything He Built
At 6:47 on a Tuesday evening, somebody in Oakridge dialed 911 because a Black man in a gray hoodie was walking too slowly past the entrance to Whitfield Estates. That was the whole emergency. No weapon. No fight. No broken…
A Teacher Tore Up My Homework and Called Me a Liar in Front of My Entire Class — She Had No Idea My Father Was a Four-Star General About to Walk Through the Door
The tearing sound was small, but it changed the room. It was the kind of sound children knew instinctively to fear: paper ripped by an adult hand, slow enough to be deliberate, loud enough to be public. Every head in…
He Ordered Me to Kneel in a Seattle Police Station Because He Thought I Was Nobody — He Had No Idea I Was the Federal Prosecutor Who Came to End His Career
By the time Samantha Reynolds stepped out of the Uber, the rain had already found the back of her neck. Seattle rain had a way of doing that. It never arrived with drama. It did not announce itself like a…
I was laughed at in a hall in the United States just because I was a Black boy from Chicago’s South Side — but no one knew that was the day everything began to change.
The first thing Dr. Richard Caldwell noticed about the boy was not his color. It was the shirt. A white button-down, freshly washed, carefully ironed, and still much too large for him. The collar sat wrong against his thin neck….
I stood inside a bank in the United States… and watched a 10-year-old boy get humiliated for his shoes—until everything flipped in a way no one expected.
When Wesley Brooks pushed open the doors of First National Heritage Bank, he did not know he was walking into the worst hour of his life. The glass was heavier than it looked. He had to lean his slight weight…
TRAGIC DISCOVERY: The Chase has left fans stunned with details surrounding the d3ath of star contestant Tim McCarthy, 64, just days before his episode was due to air.
The Chase viewers were left heartbroken on Wednesday night (August 27) after learning that contestant Tim McCarthy had d!ed just weeks after filming his episode. Tim, from Tyldesley in Greater Manchester, p@ssed away in July following a long illness….
End of content
No more pages to load
