Just days ago, Breanna Stewart declared, “Enough is enough,” making it clear she wanted to be in the room where “the real stuff” was happening. After months and months of negotiations with no resolution, the WNBA and the WNBPA have agreed to hold a crucial in-person CBA meeting in New York. However, with Unrivaled still in action, the 3×3 league co-founder is being pulled in two directions. But Stewart plans to be present, even if it’s from afar.

According to Myles Ehrlich of Winsidr, Stewart will stay in Miami to play the upcoming Laces BC game, but she will attend the meeting virtually.

“There’s moments and times where you have to do both,” Stewart said. “That’s what I’ll be doing on Monday. I want to make sure I’m present in that meeting on Zoom, and at the same time, be ready for our game at 8:45 at night.”

As players continue to push for progress, the upcoming meeting is less than 100 days away from the scheduled start of the 2026 WNBA season. The gathering is expected to include league executives, the labor relations committee, team owners, and key player representatives.

WNBPA president Nneka Ogwumike will attend the meeting in person, alongside executive committee members Kelsey Plum and Napheesa Collier. Both Plum and Collier will fly to New York after playing their early Unrivaled games on Sunday.

“I think we’ll learn a lot from this meeting,” Plum recently said in an interview when Unrivaled set a record night. “This is a meeting that, I think, everyone understands what’s at stake, timeline-wise.”

While an in-person meeting signals that both sides are ready to push toward a resolution, the biggest challenge remains that they still differ sharply on what true common ground should look like.

Revenue sharing remains the biggest sticking point as the WNBA clock keeps ticking

It has been 15 months since the WNBPA opted out of the previous collective bargaining agreement to secure pay that truly reflects the players’ role in the league’s rapid growth. Yet even now, the two sides remain far apart, largely due to major disagreements over the new salary structure.

The league’s last offer to the players included an average salary of $530,000 in year one of the deal and a max of $1.3 million, with the potential to earn more after the season through revenue sharing.

However, Breanna Stewart and her peers believe the offer still falls short of what they truly deserve.

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They are pushing for a roughly 30% share through a gross-revenue model. But what the league offered was less than 15% of the net revenue, arguing that if the players’ demands are met, it could result in nearly $700 million in losses over the life of the agreement.

That difference has become one of the biggest roadblocks in negotiations, and it’s already affecting the 2026 WNBA season schedule.

With the season all set to kick off on May 8, the league has yet to organize an expansion draft for Toronto and Portland, a free agency period featuring more than 100 unrestricted players, and the regular draft, set for April 13. And that’s why the meeting on Monday is important.

“Let’s be real: When we play telephone with people in our own lives, a lot of times things can get scattered, right?” Plum added. “So, to be able to sit down face-to-face and say, ‘This is how I feel, this is how you feel, let’s see what we can do from there.'”

The WNBA has never had a work stoppage. The most recent work stoppage in American professional sports came when the NHL had a lockout for nearly four months in 2013. Before that, the NBA had also slipped into a 161-day lockout in 2011, resulting in only a 66-game season.

With so much still unresolved and the timeline tightening fast, this may be the clearest chance for the WNBA and the players to finally move forward, and Breanna Stewart is making sure she’s part of it, even if it means showing up from a screen.