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The WNBA stars fired a message to the league before the All-Star game on Saturday night when the players expressed their frustration with the negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement.
The players wore t -shirts that said “we paid what you owe” during the warm -up.
The shirts included the logo of the National Basketball Players (WNBPA) female.
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Caitlin Clark, from Indiana Fever, uses a shirt that says “we pay what you owe us” before the 2025 star game in the WNBA in Gainbridge Fieldhouse on July 19, 2025 in Indianapolis. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
The game had the Caitlin Clark team against the Napheesa Collier team. Both players were named captains for the game. Both stars arose with the shirts. Clark did it even though it is marginalized for the game due to an injury to the groin.
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 expressed criticism of 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.
Aliyah Boston of Indiana Fover is heated on Saturday, July 19, 2025, before the WNBA stars game in Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Grace Smith/Indiestar/USA Today Network through IMAGN images)
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“It is important to be a vocal. If I feel, it seems that I don’t care.”
The New York Liberty star, Sabrina Ionescu, said the players would not settle for “the minimum” in the negotiations, while the PHOENIX player Mercury Satou Sabally described the last CBA of the League, offers a “slap.”
The WNBA commissioner, Cathy Engelbert, told Associated Press after the meeting that the meeting was “constructive.”
The WNBA commissioner, Cathy Engelbert, speaks during a press conference before the WNBA All-Star basketball game on Saturday, July 19, 2025 in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
“It was a very constructive dialogue. I think that, obviously, part of the process is to come and go and listen to the players. They listen to us and the owners who represent the Board of Governors,” said Engelbert. “I still really feel optimistic that we can do something transformative at the end. But it is a process.”
