The WNBA and WNBA Players Association agreed to an extension on the current CBA through Jan. 9, as they look to continue negotiations toward a new deal, the league announced Sunday night.
The agreement includes the option for either party to terminate the extension with 48 hours' notice.
Both sides agreed to the extension shortly before their Sunday 11:59 p.m. ET deadline. The union proposed a six-week extension after initially discussing a 24-hour extension, sources said, while the league pushed for one of 21 days.
«We expect substantive movement from the league within this window,» the union said in a statement.
The union and league previously extended the initial Oct. 31 deadline by 30 days last month.
«The WNBA and WNBPA are continuing to work toward a new agreement,» the league said in its statement Sunday.
Sunday's move comes as the two sides have seemingly remained far apart amid negotiations particularly in determining salary structure and revenue sharing systems.
According to a Nov. 18 report by The Associated Press, and later confirmed by ESPN, the WNBA had proposed a deal featuring significant salary increases as well as a revenue sharing component, in all offering players at the maximum more than $1.1 million and at the minimum more than $220,000. The league's minimum salary was $66,079 in 2025 and its supermax was $249,244.
But the WNBPA and its players were not moved by the proposal, sources told ESPN, as they felt it did not feature a system in which the salary cap, and thus player salaries, would sufficiently grow with the business — such as in the NBA, where the salary cap is directly determined by basketball-related income (BRI). Players no longer want a salary cap that, in their view, is chosen
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