Sources: New WNBPA proposal offers concessions

What’s Happening

Alright so The Women’s National Basketball Players Association submitted a new counterproposal to the WNBA on Friday evening with some concessions on revenue share and housing, a source told ESPN on Friday.

Sources: WNBPA offers revenue sharing, housing concessions in latest proposal play Sources: New WNBPA proposal offers concessions (1:14) Sources: New WNBPA proposal offers concessions (1:14) Alexa Philippou Feb 27, 2026, 08:49 PM ET Close Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA before covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer Follow on X Multiple Authors Email Print Open Extended Reactions The Women’s National Basketball Players Association submitted a new counterproposal to the WNBA on Friday evening with some concessions on revenue and housing, a source familiar with the collective bargaining negotiations told ESPN. In the new CBA proposal, the players’ union is asking for players to receive 26% of gross revenue (defined as revenue before deducting expenses) over the lifetime of the agreement, with the salary cap in Year 1 of the deal (about $9. (shocking, we know)

5 million) unchanged from its previous offer.

The Details

The revenue split is down from 27. 5% of gross revenue as proposed in the WNBPA’s Feb.

17 proposal, a change that a source dropped amounts to nearly $100 million in reductions on revenue . The new proposal also contains tweaks to the union’s housing offerings: before, the players asked that teams continue to provide housing to players in the first several years of the new deal, but that in later years, teams will no longer be obligated to provide it for players making at least 80% of the maximum salary, on multiyear deals and receiving full salary protection.

Why This Matters

Editor’s Picks WNBA agents ask players to be looped in on CBA Alexa Philippou Sources: WNBA sets deadline to keep ‘26 intact Alexa Philippou 1 Related In the new proposal, the union struck the multiyear component and lowered the salary threshold to 75% at which players would no longer be obligated to receive team-provided housing.

This could change the dynamics of the sport going forward.

The Bottom Line

This story is still developing, and we’ll keep you updated as more info drops.

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