Welcome to the Edge of Sports Podcast, brought to you by the Nation magazine.

I'm Dave Ziron.

We've got a great show for you this week.

We are going to speak to Maya Goldberg, Safer, who writes the WNBA blog, WMBA Rough

notes to speak about the incredibly important and historic labor agreement that just took place

between the WMBA union of its players and WNBA management.

Maya is going to break it all down and I'm so glad she's going to be here.

Also, I've got some choice words to tell you about my night with the mayor and Muhammad, where I sat down with Mayor Zoran Mamdani and New York Knicks player Muhammad Diawara.

We're going to get to that in just a second, but first, Maya Goldberg Safer.

So first and foremost, this deal,

what are the basic parameters of what the union signed for? And what are your initial thoughts?

Yeah. So I guess off the bat, so we know that they have a verbal agreement, the players and the league, right? So that's huge. I do think that it's going to stick, right? They're talking to the press. They're

on Good Morning America. Everyone on both sides seems to really want a WMBA season, which is

30th season, so a historic season with two new expansion franchises in Toronto and

Portland. So I think, I think we're headed for a season. At the same time, we haven't seen

the, you know, the terms hammered out in writing. So there are still some unknowns. We're sort of

relying on what they're saying about the agreement. But let's see,

to me, one of the biggest things is that this is a huge sort of economic leap for the entire

league. So we are looking at the lowest salaries in this new CBA still being higher than the

highest salaries in the old CBA. Wow.

Yep.

And to put some numbers on that, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the peak salary you could get last year was $220,000.

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