After months of backwards and forwards to get a brand new CBA in place, free company is lastly rolling within the WNBA, and the primary days have been a complete frenzy.
Nevertheless, in contrast to different franchises, the Indiana Fever cannot afford to throw cash and long-term offers left and proper, as they’ve loads of planning on doing round Caitlin Clark.
Clark, one of many faces of girls’s basketball and probably one of many main driving forces behind this vital rise in gamers’ salaries, will make considerably extra money in her third yr within the league. Her verify goes from roughly $85K final season to round $528K this yr, per The Athletic.
Greater than that, as ESPN’s Alexa Philippou defined, she’ll be eligible for a good larger bump in her wage subsequent season, so the Fever could need to make some sacrifices.
The Fever are constructing round Caitlin Clark
“Not surprising to see Indiana dealing out one-year offers (Kelsey Mitchell too). Keep in mind, Caitlin Clark can get an enormous wage bump subsequent yr underneath the brand new EPIC provision (Aliyah Boston is eligible for it this yr). Fever must do some retooling to suit everybody underneath the cap,” Philippou shared on X.
