WNBPA’s Adam Silver Decision Puts the League’s Concerning Reality on Display, Per Analyst Adam Silver was met with a firm response from the WNBPA, but this analyst has slammed the association for it.

In the messy world of finance and legal contracts, clarity is capital and ambiguity is liability. When NBA President Adam Silver was asked what we can expect from the new WNBA CBA, he committed to a pay raise but argued with the wording of how it would be. The Today show host, Craig Melvin, asked Silver if the players should get a larger piece of the revenue that the league brings in.

“Yes. I mean, I think share isn’t the right way to look at it because there’s so much more revenue in the NBA,” Silver answered. “I think you should look at it in absolute numbers in terms of what they’re making. And they are going to get a big increase in this cycle of collective bargaining, and they deserve it.” WNBPA wasn’t too happy with that answer, as it refuted the idea of the revenue-sharin