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The Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham sent a blunt message to the WNBA and Commissioner Cathy Engelbert while addressing journalists on Sunday.
When asked if the WNBA season was too long or too short, Cunningham referred to the league negotiations with the players’ union on a new collective agreement, and the players expressing the desire for more money.
“You can just tell Cathy to pay us, then we can have a discussion,” said Cunningham.
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Cunningham is only one of the many players to talk about desire more compensation while the Women’s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) is negotiating a new agreement with the League.
The Indiana Cunningham Indiana fever guard during the Dallas wings at the American Airlines Center on June 27, 2025. (Jerome Miron-Imagn images)
The players of the All-Star match on Saturday wore t-shirts that read “pay us what you owe us” during the heating. The shirts included the WNBPA logo.
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The Indiana Cunningham Indiana fever guard and the Connecticut JACY Sheldon Solar Guard are fighting at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on June 17, 2025. (Images of Trevor Ruszkowski-Imagn)
The players met league officials on Thursday and the teams did not conclude an agreement. Chicago Sky star Angel Reese was one of the many WNBA players who criticized the treatment of negotiations by the League.
“It was a revelation for me. As, hearing things and hearing the language of things and not things that I was happy to hear. It was disrespectful the things we were sent back, the proposal that we were sent back,” she said on Friday.
The Indiana Sophie Cunningham fever custody reacts against the Brazil national team in Carver-Haweye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa, May 4, 2025. (Images Jeffrey Becker-Imagn)
“It is important to be able to be vocal. If I sit down, it seems that I don’t care.”
New York Liberty Star Sabrina Ionescu said that the players were not going to be content with “the minimum” in the negotiations, while the Phoenix player Mercury Satou Sabally called the last offer of the League a “slap opposite”.
