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The WNBPA's leap of faith in WNBA CBA negotiations

More than a year after it opted out of the collective bargaining agreement, the Women's National Basketball Players Association are not significantly closer to signing off on a new CBA.

Negotiations with the WNBA have not proven fruitful to this point, and both sides faced an inflection point on Sunday: the imminent expiration of the CBA, following a mutually-agreed 30-day extension of the 2020 CBA.

The sticking point continues to be the WNBPA's demand for player salaries -- and, by proxy, the salary cap -- to grow in tandem with the WNBA as a business. It is a model that for years has been used in the NBA -- whose commissioner, Adam Silver, is WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert's boss.

Will an agreement happe

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