Angel Reese has threatened to boycott WNBA video games if the league doesn’t meet gamers’ calls for for the brand new Collective Bargaining Settlement, because the Chicago Sky ahead continued to complain about her wage.
Reese signed a four-year, $324,383 rookie scale contract forward of her first professional season, and is ready to make slightly below $75,000 in 2025, in keeping with Spotrac.
And whereas WNBA gamers are set to barter a brand new CBA after the gamers’ union opted out of the present one in October (it nonetheless runs by October 31, 2025), Reese mentioned on her ‘Unapologetically Angel’ podcast that gamers might skip video games if negotiations go awry.
‘If y’all do not give us what we wish, we sitting out,’ she mentioned, whereas speaking to fellow WNBA participant Dijonai Carrington.
Reese added that she ‘cannot wait’ for the brand new CBA, which can be negotiated amid a huge improve in league reputation, and is ready to enter impact for the 2026 season.
The league additionally introduced a brand new 11-year TV rights cope with Disney, Amazon Prime and NBCU in July.
Angel Reese mentioned WNBA gamers deserve extra on the most recent episode of her podcast
Reese was named an All-Star in her first season enjoying for the Chicago Sky within the WNBA
Reese will make lower than $75,000 in base wage this season however has a number of endorsement offers
The contract is value about $2.2billion, or $200million yearly per a number of stories, and is ready to start in 2026.
Reese added that gamers within the league ‘deserve extra,’ as younger All-Stars like her and Caitlin Clark make simply five-figure salaries.
The truth is, it appears as if the rookie scale contracts for 2026 draftees will usurp the rookie offers that Clark and Reese are at the moment set to nonetheless be enjoying on three years into their profession.
Reese mentioned she was ‘damage’ by that chance, whereas Carrington mentioned she had been in league conferences and confirmed that to be the case.
Reese, who averaged 13.6 factors, 13.1 rebounds and supplied a robust defensive enhance for the Sky, has beforehand complained about her WNBA wage not overlaying her $8,000-per-month lease.
‘Hating pays my payments, child. I simply hope you recognize the WNBA do not pay my payments in any respect. I do not even suppose that pays one in all my payments,’ she mentioned on Instagram. ‘Actually, I am making an attempt to think about my lease for the place I keep at. I am gonna do the maths actual fast. I do not even know my wage.’
‘Yo, I am dwelling past my means! No, my lease is greater than that. It is $8,000. I am dwelling past my means.’
Apart from her WNBA wage, Reese additionally has endorsement offers with the likes of Reebok, Reese’s and Beats by Dre.
She has additionally suited up within the inaugural version of the 3-on-3 Unequalled league, which is paying all 36 gamers six-figure salaries.
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