{"id":678376,"date":"2026-03-24T13:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/678376\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:11:08","slug":"inside-the-wnbas-8-day-100-hour-cba-marathon-negotiations-that-forged-a-transformational-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/678376\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the WNBA\u2019s 8-day, 100-hour CBA marathon negotiations that forged a transformational deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"WAV426A2UZAW3K6ON6LEHZM65A\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">NEW YORK \u2014 The intense, all-night negotiations over the WNBA\u2019s collective bargaining agreement were new to many on both sides.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"37KKSI5KNRHMNM4KSZUFKPD4XY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The grueling discussions lasted eight days and went well into the early morning hours each session. Well over 100 hours were spent hammering out the transformational deal that was agreed to in principle early last Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 The intense, all-night negotiations over the WNBA\u2019s collective bargaining agreement were new to many on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":678377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[28957,1339,285631,24963,1260,62,67,132,68,22795],"class_list":{"0":"post-678376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-adidas-ag","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-bkl-wnba-cba-behind-the-scenes","11":"tag-labor-unions","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-wnba-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116284325027705973","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}