Why A'Ja Wilson Is The Face Of The WNBA's Million Dollar Era

Why A'Ja Wilson Is The Face Of The WNBA's Million Dollar Era

The WNBA successfully collectively bargained this past fall, and we will have a 2026-27 WNBA season. With the success of the league’s new CBA, the players in the WNBA are finally signing million-dollar contracts for the first time. Of the WNBA stars that have begun signing these landmark deals, A’Ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces has signed the first super max contract in WNBA history, according to ESPN. Wilson signed a three-year contract that to…

INSIDE THE WNBA'S NEW CBA

After a long uphill battle, WNBA players are finally getting paid what they’re worth in a landmark new Collective Bargaining Agreement. On Mar. 18, it was announced that the WNBA and the Women’s National Basketball Players’ Association had reached a deal on a seven-year, historic CBA. Pay discrepancy has been a long-standing issue in women’s sports, and the longest-running women’s professional basketball league is no exception. Since its incepti…

Historic Supermax deals headline WNBA Offseason – Howard University News Service

The WNBA’s most decorated player of all time, A’ja Wilson, agreed to the terms of a super-max contract worth at least $5 million on Tuesday, which will keep her in Las Vegas through 2028, making her the highest-paid WNBA player of all time at the time of her signing. This deal follows the WNBA’s new collective bargaining agreement, which increased the supermax contracts from $250,000 to $1.4 million.  The contract is fully guaranteed, and the de…