WNBA CBA deadline drama: Emma Baccellieri and Lindsay break down the labor fight
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🗓️ 1 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Emma Baccelllieri, staff writer at Sports Illustrated and co-author of Court Queens, joins co-host Lindsay Gibbs to talk about the plethora of WNBA CBA news this week, break down gross revenue vs. net revenue (in a fun way, we hope!), and put this labor fight into the context of history of women's basketball.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to burn it all down. |
| 0:14.3 | The Feminist Sports Podcast You Need. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm one of the host, Lindsay Gibbs, and I am joined today by Emma Bachelori, the staff writer at Sports Illustrated, and a co-author of the book I have in my background, Court Queens, Celebrate the Players, Teams, and History of Women's Basketball. |
| 0:33.5 | Emma, thank you so much for joining Burn It All Down. |
| 0:36.6 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:38.7 | So today we are going to discuss the CBA negotiations in the WMBA because a lot is happening. |
| 0:47.2 | We haven't had Burn It All Down on while this has been going on. |
| 0:50.8 | So I feel like, you know, our last couple of episodes have just been Olympics focused, |
| 0:54.7 | and I just felt like we needed a breakaway to fully delve into the labor relations back |
| 1:00.6 | and forth we're seeing here. I want to remind everyone up top that we do have our Kickstarter |
| 1:05.3 | going. We're trying to, you know, fund this new world and new era of burn it all down and make sure that we can all be properly |
| 1:14.0 | compensated. The Kickstarter response has been overwhelming so far. We have swore past our goal, |
| 1:20.8 | but we're still trying to get about $5,000 more dollars, I think, to hit that $29,000 mark, which will allow us, I think, |
| 1:29.4 | to fully fund six episodes. So that's our new goal. And it's only open for a few more days. |
| 1:35.3 | So we're recording this on February 28th. I'll have it in the show notes the exact date in March |
| 1:40.5 | that it ends, but I believe it's March 3rd. So coming up soon. So hopefully you all can |
| 1:46.5 | get to our Kickstarter and help this independent women's, women in sports, women's sports, men's |
| 1:55.5 | sports, everything. But this independent feminist focused sports podcast continue because we're so excited to be back. |
| 2:03.2 | But enough of that, Emma, we're 16 months into the negotiations between the WMBA and the WNBA Players Association. |
| 2:13.9 | A negotiation that I believe is probably one of the most consequential in women's sports history, beyond all the other ones, of course, that have come before it. |
| 2:23.3 | But the stakes are so much bigger now because of the amount of money that's coming in. |
| 2:27.7 | And things just get different when there's this much money involved. |
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