Sources: WNBA, players extend CBA for 30 days

The WNBA and WNBPA agreed Thursday to a 30-day hold of the existent corporate bargaining statement done Nov. 30, sources confirmed.

The existent CBA was acceptable to expire connected Friday, which would person opened the doorway to a imaginable onslaught by players oregon lockout initiated by owners.

ESPN reported connected Tuesday that the WNBA had offered the players association the hold of the CBA. The hold follows a akin way to the astir caller circular of CBA negotiations aft the 2019 season, erstwhile the 2 sides agreed to a 60-day hold earlier yet agreeing to a caller woody successful January of 2020.

There person been aggregate meetings this week betwixt the WNBA and WNBPA arsenic portion of negotiations, which person centered connected the mode the league's wage headdress is determined. The WNBA has projected sizeable increases to the league's minimum and maximum salaries, reflecting accrued gross generated by the WNBA since the past CBA was signed.

However, portion the league's connection maintains gross targets that could let players to stock successful aboriginal growth, the wage headdress would stay fixed done the people of the woody if those targets are not met. The WNBPA has countered with offers that would necktie the wage headdress to basketball-related income, akin to the mode the NBA, NFL and NHL person agelong operated.

The NWSL besides adopted a exemplary that shares gross successful its astir caller CBA, signed past year.

The 2 sides person traded crisp words implicit that disconnect.

Last week, NBA commissioner Adam Silver's comments connected the "TODAY Show" that WNBA players volition get a "big increase" successful salaries portion pointing to "absolute numbers" arsenic the mode to measurement that maturation arsenic opposed to stock of revenue. The league has said that "the Players Association has yet to connection a viable economical connection and has repeatedly refused to prosecute successful immoderate meaningful mode connected galore of our connection terms," and that it has offered an uncapped gross sharing exemplary that is straight tied to the league's performance.

The national has countered those claims, saying the league has "run retired the clock, enactment lipstick connected a pig and retread a strategy that isn't tied to immoderate portion of the concern and intentionally undervalues the players. The information that the league present wants to telephone immoderate portion of its connection 'uncapped' is precisely wherefore its leadership, transparency and accountability are being challenged close now."

The Athletic was the archetypal to study the quality of the 30-day extension.

ESPN's Alexa Philippou contributed to this story.