WNBPA offers revenue sharing, housing concessions in latest proposal

February 27, 2026

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 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 $9.5 million) unchanged from its previous offer.

The revenue share split is down from 27.5% of gross revenue as proposed in the WNBPA’s Feb. 17 proposal, a change that a source said amounts to nearly $100 million in reductions on revenue share.

The new proposal also contains tweaks to the union’s housing offerings: Previously, 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. ESPN