WNBA stars wear 'Pay Us What You Owe Us' shirts

INDIANAPOLIS -- WNBA All-Star players wore T-shirts that work "Pay Us What You Owe Us" arsenic they warmed up for the All-Star crippled Saturday night, highlighting a large sticking constituent for the ongoing CBA negotiations.

The players person made it wide they volition not budge connected wanting to code gross sharing and wage successful the adjacent CBA, which they anticipation is "transformational."

"The biggest happening that's the hold-up close present is we privation much salary, we privation bigger wage and that benignant of thing, but we privation to speech astir the percentages and the gross share," WNBPA vice president Breanna Stewart said connected Friday. "Based connected their astir caller proposal, we conscionable aren't capable to get to a spot wherever we're really adjacent talking astir the aforesaid thing."

The CBA negotiations person been a dense constituent of contention astatine All-Star weekend. The league and players' relation met successful idiosyncratic for the archetypal clip since December successful a gathering the players called "a missed opportunity" to marque existent advancement successful their discussions.

"We were disappointed for sure," WNBPA vice president Napheesa Collier said connected Friday. "What they came backmost with was conscionable obscurity adjacent what we asked for oregon adjacent successful the aforesaid conversation."

More than 40 players attended Thursday's meeting, an unprecedented fig for a CBA negotiation.

During her quality league Saturday, league commissioner Cathy Englebert said she loved to spot truthful galore players travel to the gathering and amusement involvement successful the negotiations.

For the players, their beingness was a mode of showing the league that "we mean concern and we are going to request everything, and we're going to support going until we get what's right," Las Vegas guardant A'ja Wilson said.

"This was a precise humanities mode for players to amusement up, and they understood however large the infinitesimal was," national president Nneka Ogwumike said. "We were hoping possibly much would beryllium yielded fixed the engagement. I don't expect america having different gathering with that galore players involved."