{"id":231280,"date":"2026-03-03T05:22:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/paige-bueckers-doesnt-hold-back-on-wnba-negotiations\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T05:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:22:33","slug":"paige-bueckers-doesnt-hold-back-on-wnba-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/paige-bueckers-doesnt-hold-back-on-wnba-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers doesn\u2019t hold back on WNBA negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The 2026 WNBA season is meant to begin on May 8, although that might not be the case due to ongoing CBA discussions.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/basketball\/wnba-cba-deadline-passes-without-agreement\/735572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deadline passed for the sides to come to terms<\/a> on a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/teams\/dallas_wings\/17269\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas Wings<\/a> star and No. 1 pick Paige Bueckers did not hold back and made known her frustrations with the way things have gone. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAt this point, it\u2019s not really a negotiation anymore. Both sides aren\u2019t moving,\u201d Bueckers said. \u201cWe as players we don\u2019t want to have a strike, we want to have a season. But there are things that need to be handled, and we want to do it as professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/articles\/paige_bueckers_doesnt_hold_back_on_wnba_negotiations\/s1_127_43540876\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 WNBA season is meant to begin on May 8, although that might not be the case due to ongoing CBA discussions. In January, the deadline passed for the sides to come to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA).\u00a0 Now, Dallas Wings star and No. 1 pick Paige Bueckers did not hold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-231280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}