WNBA Players' Concessions Keep Season Alive

An announcement from the WNBA confirming a new five-year CBA is expected today, and observers unanimously call the league the winner in this weekend's contentious negotiations. While the players did win free agency and more marketing rights, it was the WNBPA's opposition to the five-year length of the deal that nearly led to the cancellation of the season. The union is admittedly unsatisfied with the deal, and ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski writes, "The players confessed to breaking down and doing the inevitable: Seeing it the commissioner's way".

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