Women's basketball legend Nancy Lieberman credits Caitlin Clark for new WNBA CBA, higher salaries

WNBA fable Nancy Lieberman believes Caitlin Clark is to convey for the league's caller corporate bargaining statement (CBA) that has allowed players to get overmuch higher salaries.

"She’s a generational player. She came with a instrumentality basal of millions, and it’s helping the league,"Lieberman said.

"They don’t get the $2.2 cardinal corporate bargaining agreement, honestly, without her being there."

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Women's hoops fable Nancy Lieberman said she would person punched Chennedy Clark successful the look if she were Caitlin Clark. (Getty Images)

That caller surge successful attraction has helped alteration the fiscal aboriginal of the WNBA.

The WNBA and the Women’s National Basketball Players Association reached a tentative caller corporate bargaining statement successful March. The woody delivers large wage increases, a larger wage headdress and much subordinate benefits.

The caller WNBA CBA is simply a transformative seven-year labour woody establishing the first-ever revenue-sharing exemplary (averaging 20% of league and squad revenue). It astir quintuples the squad wage headdress and introduces sweeping upgrades to subordinate benefits, household readying and installation standard

Lieberman said Clark’s accomplishment helped propulsion the league into a caller era.

"You can’t contradict she brings the media," Lieberman said. "You’re talking astir her. You astir apt weren’t talking astir anybody 4 years ago."

Lieberman compared Clark’s effect connected the WNBA to that of Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods connected their respective sports.

"She’s done her job, conscionable similar Tiger did, conscionable similar Michael Jordan did," Lieberman said.

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Clark entered the WNBA successful 2024 aft a record-setting assemblage vocation astatine Iowa. She brought monolithic tv audiences, sold-out arenas and a nationalist speech that followed her from assemblage into the pros.

Lieberman said that benignant of attraction does not instrumentality distant from the remainder of the league. It helps exposure much fans to everyone.

"Now, you instrumentality A’ja, you instrumentality Napheesa, you instrumentality Stewie, you instrumentality Kelsey Plum, and you instrumentality Sabrina, and each these different large athletes, and present you enactment them unneurotic — that’s precise formidable," Lieberman said.

"These young players that are coming into the league person this unthinkable instrumentality base," Lieberman added. "They were making millions of dollars successful assemblage with their NILs, truthful they conscionable brought that to the league...

"We shouldn’t beryllium jealous of them," Lieberman said. "We should observe them, not tolerate them."

Clark's Indiana Fever are disconnected to a amazingly underwhelming commencement to the 2026 play amid title expectations aft however adjacent the squad got past year.

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In 2025, the Fever came 1 crippled shy of reaching the WNBA Finals, each portion Clark was sidelined with injury. But truthful acold Indiana is disconnected to conscionable a 6-5 commencement this year, portion Clark has seen a seeming diminution successful shooting accuracy.

But Lieberman believes the Fever volition beryllium "fine" arsenic the play develops. Lieberman said teams present ellipse Fever games the mode players erstwhile circled matchups with Michael Jordan.

"You spot the docket and you get amped up for the Fever due to the fact that you’re dealing with immoderate of the astir celebrated players successful the league," Lieberman said.

"Same with Angel Reese. So, it's conscionable portion of it, radical utilized to get amped for Michael Jordan. It's okay, you've created a estimation for yourself, you've been capable to transcend the reputation, and radical privation to play against the best."

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She said the aforesaid is existent for different marquee teams and stars.

"It’s similar the Aces," Lieberman said. "You look astatine the docket and you go, ‘We’re playing A’ja Wilson,’ and you get amped up for this. Same with Angel Reese."