WNBA player Angel Reese ignited a four -storm on social media after claiming players are prepared to sit at stake to demand higher wages during her podcast Friday.
Reese and colleague WNBA player Dijonai Carrington treated the next WNBA collective negotiation agreement.
“I have to get into the meetings because I hear as, ‘if you don’t give us what we want, we’re sitting out,'” Reese said.
Carrington added, “It’s an option.”
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Angel Reese from Rose responds during the first quarter of a game against Phantom in the Wayfair Arena 31 January 2025 in Medley, Fla. (Megan Briggs/Getty Images)
Reese has seized his financial situation in the past.
“Wnba doesn’t pay my bills at all. I don’t even think it pays one of my bills. Literally,” Reese said.
Rees’s comments encouraged heated heated debate on social media about a WNBA player strike, resulting in higher wages. Wnba has never turned a profit in its existence and has been subsidized by the NBA.
Chicago Sky Forward Angel Reese during the first half of a game against Las Vegas Aces at the WinTrust Arena. (Kamil Krzaczynski/USA Today Sports)
Reese came into the discussion when she shouted the conservative influencer alias on X for a post that Reese said mistakenly claimed she demanded to be paid as much as NBA players.
“I never said anything about the NBA. We are ready to live on the negotiating table as long as it takes,” Reese said.
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AKA’s original post has since been deleted.
Reese signed a four-year, $ 324,383 rookie contract ahead of her first WNBA season in 2024. She earned less than $ 75,000 in her first year and will do less than that in 2025.
In October, Reese admitted that she could not afford to pay her bills based on this salary in an Instagram Live video.
“I live beyond my funds. Hate paying them bills, baby. I just hope you know that wnba won’t pay my bills at all,” she said. “I don’t even think it pays one of my bills. Literally I try to think of my rent for where I live at. Let me do the math really quickly. I don’t even know my (wnba) salary, $ 74,000? “
Caitlin Clark from Indiana Fever and Angel Reese from Chicago Sky during a game 1 June 2024 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Jeff Haynes/NBAE via Getty Images)
Reese said she pays $ 8,000 for rent.
“Babe, if you thought … that wnba check won’t pay anything,” she added. “Did it even pay that my car note? … I wouldn’t even be able to eat a sandwich with it. I wouldn’t even be able to eat. I wouldn’t be able to live.”
WNBA Players Union chose its current collective negotiation agreement in October, two years before its expiry.
The current CBA will still cover the 2025 season, so the two sides have a year to negotiate a new deal.
