The WNBA and the Women’s National Basketball Players Association remain at odds with the current collective bargaining agreement set to expire at the end of this month.
WNBPA executive director Terri Carmichael Jackson initially issued a fiery response in the wake of NBA commissioner Adam Silver’s recent comments regarding revenue share — a key issue for the players — when he said, in part, “share isn’t the right way to look at it.”
Silver said WNBA players are due to “get a big increase in this cycle of collective bargaining, and they deserve it.”
But Jackson said players stand firm on their desires to have their increased salaries connected to a more robust revenue-sharing model that ties their pay to the league’s business growth.
“When the players opted out a year ago, they made it