Wnba player Angel Reese lit a fiery storm on social networks after claiming that players are ready to sit games to require higher salaries during Her subcastation Friday.
Reese and colleague WNBA Player Dijonai Carrington He addressed the following agreement on the WNBA collective work.
“I have to go to meetings because I hear it as,” If you don’t give us what we want, we sit, “Reese said.
Carrington added, “That’s the possibility.”
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Angel Reese responds from Rose during the first quarter of the game against Phantom in Wayfair Arena 31 January 2025 in Medley, Fla. (Megan Briggs/Getty Images)
Reese has been squeezed in the past because of her financial situation.
“Wnba Don’t pay my accounts at all. I don’t even think that one of my accounts is paying. Literally, “Reese said.
Reese’s comments have encouraged a fierce discussion of social media about the WNBA player strike, which resulted in higher wages. Wnba never made a profit in her existence and subsidized by NBA.
Chicago Sky, Angel Reese, during the first half of the game against Las Vegas Acesses in the Wintrust Arena. (Kamil Krzaczynski/USA Today Sports)
Reese entered the discussion when she invited the conservative influencer aka to the X to the place she said to have falsely claimed to have asked to pay her as much as NBA players.
“I never said anything about NBA. We’re ready to stay at the negotiating table as long as necessary,” Reese said.
The original post has been deleted since then.
Reese was signed by four -year -old, $ 324,383 by a rookie contract ahead of her first season of WNBA 2024. In the first year, she made under $ 75,000 and will make less than in 2025.
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In October, Reese admitted that she couldn’t afford to pay the bills based on that salary in a live Instagram video.
“I live outside my funds. I hate them paying their bills, honey. I hope you know WNBA don’t pay the bills at all,” she said. “I don’t even think it’s paid one my accounts. Literally, I try to think of my rent for where I stay. Let me make math quickly. I don’t even know my (WNBA) salary, $ 74,000? “
Caitlin Clark of Indiana Fever and Angel Reese from Chicago Sky during the June 1, 2024 match at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Jeff Haynes/Nbae via Getty Images)
Reese said she was paying $ 8,000 for rent.
“Honey, if you all thought … that WNBA check didn’t pay anything,” she added. “Did it even pay for my car? … I couldn’t even eat a sandwich. I couldn’t even eat. I couldn’t live.”
The WNBA player union decided in his current collective negotiating agreement in October, two years before the expiration.
The current CBA will continue to cover the 2025 season, so two sides have a year to negotiate a new agreement.
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