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Indiana Fever’s star, Sophie Cunningham, sent a forceful message to the WNBA and Commissioner Cathy Engelbert while talking to journalists on Sunday.
When asked if the WNBA season is too long or too short, Cunningham referred to the ongoing negotiations of the League with the players’ union on a new collective bargaining agreement, and the players express the desire for more money.
“You can tell Cathy to pay us, and then we can have an argument,” said Cunningham.
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Cunningham is only one of the many players who talk about more compensation, since the National Association of Basketball (WNBPA) female negotiates a new agreement with the League.
Indiana Sophie Cunningham’s guard during the Wings game at the American Airlines Center in Dallas on June 27, 2025. (Jerome Miron-Imagn images)
The players in the stars game on Saturday wore t -shirts that said “we paid what you owe us” during the warm -up. The shirts included the WNBPA logo.
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Indiana’s fever guard, Sophie Cunningham, and Connecticut Sun’s guard, Jacy Sheldon, fight in Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, on June 17, 2025. (Images of Trevor Ruszkowski-Imagn)
The players met with the League officials on Thursday, and the parties did not reach an agreement. The Chicago Sky star, Angel Reese, was one of the many WNBA players who have criticized the management of the League negotiations.
“It was a revelation for me. As, listening to things and listening to the language of things and not the things I was happy to listen. The things they sent us was disrespectful, the proposal they sent us,” he said on Friday.
The Indiana fever guard, Sophie Cunningham, reacts against the National Team of Brazil in Carver-Haweye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa, May 4, 2025. (Jeffrey Becker-Imagn images)
“It is important to be a vocal. If I feel, it seems that I don’t care.”
New York freedom The Sabrina Ionescu star said that the players would not settle for “the minimum” in the negotiations, while the Phoenix Mercury Satou Sabally player described the last offer of the league as a “slap.”
