As noted in the base salary protection section, all contracts become fully guaranteed after the midpoint of the season, so seven-day contracts are a very low commitment compared to a rest-of-season contract that must be paid out in full even if the player is released. The maximum and minimum roster rules include injured players who are left on the roster but does not include players who have been suspended voluntarily or due to injury. Williams saw action in 10 games as a rookie. There are no partial years of service, players can either earn zero or one. Seattle: Jenna Giacone Sign Training Camp Contract Las Vegas: Young, Jackie Contract Amendment Time-Off Bonus Dallas Wings: Tyasha Harris Team Option Exercised A merit bonus is a bonus paid to a player given individual or team success throughout the season. PAUL - The Minnesota Lynx tonight selected Kayla Jones and Hannah Sjerven in the 2022 WNBA Draft as the team's 22nd and 28th overall picks, respectively. Minnesota: Cruz, Anna QO Extended This is what allowed Skylar Diggins-Smith to be cored by Dallas, re-signed by Dallas, and then traded immediately to Phoenix even though Griner was already on the roster with a core designation. Phoenix: Williams, Kiana Waived "As a team, we've really been trying to navigate the health and safety protocols and trying to be safe and do the right thing," Stewart told reporters. Connecticut: Holmes, Joyner QO Extended Indiana: Smith, NaLyssa Sign Rookie Scale Contract . "He told me to pack a bag and that I was going to be playing a game tonight in Seattle," Williams said. Seattle: Plaisance, Theresa Sign Regular Contract A hardship clause in a contract allows the parties to modify or excuse their contract obligations when one of the parties experiences a hardship. The contracts are at the minimum base salary and prorated where the fraction is seven divided by the total number of days in the regular season. 2022 WNBA Per Game Split Stats - Days Rest. Minnesota: Clarendon, Layshia Waived Indiana: NaLyssa Smith Required Tender Made The Atlanta Dream have signed Destiny Slocum to a hardship contract, the organization announced today. An offer sheet is an offer to a restricted free agent that a team other than the player's prior team extends. We will have less people interested in global warming and feminism etc, and more people susceptible to religion and science-denying, xenophobia and nationalism. If the team does not exercise its option, the player would become an unrestricted free agent after the conclusion of her third season. The other situations where players may earn less than the league minimum in a season are for non-standard contracts like seven-day contracts, rest-of-season contracts, or replacement contracts. Phoenix: Simms, Jennie 7-Day Contract Release Phoenix Mercury: Tina Charles Sign Regular Contract Washington Mystics: Klara Lundquist Personal Decision Full Season, Washington Mystics: MeMe Jackson Sign Training Camp Contract Las Vegas Aces: Avery Warley-Talbert - Sign Regular Contract. Phoenix: Turner, Brianna Set Active It was approved by the players on January 14, 2020, and the agreement was signed on January 17, 2020. LOS ANGELES (June 30, 2021) - The Los Angeles Sparks re-signed Karlie Samuelson under the hardship exception, the team announced today. Seattle: Perez, Raina Waivers Cleared Phoenix: Maya Dodson Sign Rookie Scale Contract Seattle: Evina Westbrook Sign Rookie Scale Contract Atlanta: Hayes, Tiffany Set Active, Minnesota: Sims, Odyssey Waived In 2022, after her 10% raise, Ionescu would earn $76,297 compared to the 2021 number one pick who would earn $71,441. Seattle: Manis, Lauren Waived, Alanta: Morrison, Que Waivers Cleared "Honestly, it wasn't anything difficult," Williams said of Friday's journey. The base salary can be any value between the league minimum and maximum, though they are typically for the minimum. Much like extensions, what happens after a contract expires is determined by the type of contract and whether or not the team has taken certain actions. Connecticut Sun: Natisha Hiedeman QO Extended Los Angeles: Kianna Smith Required Tender Made Connecticut: Jones, Stephanie Hardship Release, Seattle: Davis, Kaela Hardship Release For example, Brittney Griner was cored in January of 2020 and signed a three-year contract with Phoenix that runs through the 2022 season. As long as a player's level of play is not faltering due to certain off-the-court activities, including the use of prohibited substances or committing a felony, the player is owed the protected portion of their salary if they are cut because of their performance. Indiana: Robinson, Danielle Set Active The supermax is about 16% higher than the standard maximum. Chicago: Wells, Kayla Waived 1 pick in the draft. That is, the player must sign an extension before May 15 of the final, team-option year of their rookie contract. Connecticut: Nelson-Ododa, Olivia Traded1 Las Vegas: Clark, Alysha Sign Regular Contract It's a temporary roster spot that must be granted by the league. Washington Mystics: Stephanie Mavunga Sign Training Camp Contract, Atlanta Dream: Maya Caldwell Sign Training Camp Contract, Washington Mystics: Linnae Harper Sign Training Camp Contract From February 1 until the last day of the regular season, players may sign all types of contracts, with the caveat that all standard contracts signed after the midpoint of the regular season become fully guaranteed. Only players with six or more years of service at the time the contract is signed may receive a trade bonus. This stops teams from passing off a player so another team can get the rights to core the player or sign them to a supermax as a free agent. Las Vegas: Winters, Deja Waived Seattle: Nurse, Kia Sign Regular Contract Los Angeles: Horvat, Chantel Waivers Cleared Connecticut: Gulbe, Aleksa Waivers Cleared Chicago Sky: Kamiah Smalls Sign Training Camp Contract New York: Dangerfield, Crystal Hardship Release, Indiana: Cannon, Emma Sign ROS Contract, Seattle: Williams, Kiana Hardship Release, Seattle: Williams, Kiana Sign ROS Contract (Hardship) When the CBA was agreed to in January 2020, max salaries went up 82% ($117,500 to $215,00) while the cap only grew 30% ($996,100 to $1.3 million), forcing general managers to be creative in . Seattle Storm: Jewell Loyd Core QO Extended, Atlanta Dream: Tianna Hawkins Waived However, if an international player chooses to play collegiately in the United States, they then have to follow the domestic draft eligibility rules. Phoenix: Gray, Reshanda Sign ROS Contract Connecticut: Nia Clouden Required Tender Made Additionally, drafted players are eligible for rookie scale extensions. Connecticut: Smith, Kiara Sign Rookie Scale Contract, Connecticut: Hayes, Tiffany Traded Exclusive Negotiating Rights1, Chicago: Ndour-Fall, Astou Sign Regular Contract New York: Shook, Kylee Rights Renounced June 15, 2022. This is not the conventional definition of "rookie" that fans typically think of: someone who is playing her first-ever regular-season game that year. Historically, many WNBA players have arrived late for camp or even missed the opening games of the regular season due to overseas commitments. The core component of rookie contracts is that the player can not have previously signed a WNBA contract. 5-12 of the first round and the entirety of the second and third rounds are determined by the reverse order of the teams regular-season record for the prior season only. For the 2021 WNBA season, the salary cap for each of the league's 12 teams is $1,339,000. New York: Vandersloot, Courtney Sign Regular Contract Atlanta: Caldwell, Maya Hardship Release Seattle: Dojkic, Ivana Sign Rookie Scale Contract Trade bonuses cannot be for more than 10% of the player's remaining base salary on their contract, not just the season the trade takes place. Connecticut: Sims, Odyssey Sign ROS Contract (Hardship) If the injury occurs in the preseason or offseason while playing for a non-WNBA team the team can suspend the player for the season to remove their salary from the salary cap and open up another roster spot. Indiana: Wallace, Kristy Traded1 Dallas: Bertsch, Morgan Waived So if the injury took place on July 10, 2020, the team must wait until July 10, 2022. Connecticut: Nia Clouden Sign Rookie Scale Contract Players receive one-ninth of their base salary twice per month because of the extended regular season. "That was a pretty long day for me," she said -- a massive understatement. Below is a list of all types of contracts that cannot be protected: All other types of contracts may have base salary protection, but it must be negotiated. Los Angeles: Atwell, Amy Sign Rookie Scale Contract Players are paid in semi-monthly installments by their current teams, so a player's new team is only on the hook for the remaining salary. "I got off the phone with him and started packing.". So, for 2020, this means the league is guaranteeing that it will pay out at least $1,209,000 multiplied by 12 for a total of $14,508,000. Any player who has not completed their offseason playing obligations by the start of the 2023 regular season will be suspended for the entire 2023 season. Connecticut: Jones, Brionna Sign Core Contract, Atlanta: Rupert, Iliana Awarded on Waivers Evina Westbrook signed a hardship contract with the Minnesota Lynx on Thursday, the franchise announced. New York: Willoughby, Jocelyn Team Option Exercised, Las Vegas: Young, Jackie Sign Contract Extension SEATTLE -- When Seattle Storm starters Sue Bird and Ezi Magbegor joined reserve Stephanie Talbot in COVID-19 health and safety protocols early Friday, the team scrambled to sign Kiana Williams as a replacement and get the guard from her home in San Antonio to Seattle before that night's 7 p.m. tip-off. Teams are not allowed to insure against a lack of skill. This means if a career-ending injury happens on June 10, 2020, then the team can apply for the extension on January 1, 2022. The payments begin on or around June 1 and continue until approximately September 30. The third-year center appeared in one preseason game for the Wings this season, recording nine points and four . Players who were already over the league minimum did not receive any bump in their salary. This seems to be an unintended consequence, so it is possible the WNBPA and WNBA could work out an amendment covering this situation in the future. Dallas: Veronica Burton Sign Rookie Scale Contract Chicago: Emmanuelle Tahane Sign Training Camp Contract Atlanta: Caldwell, Maya 7-Day Contract Release, Phoenix: Turner, Yvonne Sign ROS Contract (Hardship), Minnesota: Allen, Lindsay Sign ROS Contract (Hardship) Chicago is trading its own 2022 1st round pick (#7) and 2023 1st round pick to Indiana. Phoenix: Gray, Reshanda 7-Day Contract Release This means the 2019 season (34 games) held more impact on this calculation for the 2021 draft than the 2020 season (22 games). Seattle: Elissa Cunane Required Tender Made These bonuses are constant throughout the current CBA, but if the maximum number of playoff games increases, they increase by 10%. The qualifying offer itself is also much lower, between $8,000 and $25,000 lower for first-round picks drafted in 2020 or later. Los Angeles: Lexi Gordon Waivers Cleared Time off bonuses can be added even if the original contract did not include one, and they take effect in the first offseason following the extension. "I have all that and they don't have those lines available, so I was in line for maybe 30 minutes. New York: Ionescu, Sabrina Team Option Exercised Minnesota: Ursin, Moon Waived Just as with the team minimum, the Players Association is tasked with determining a reasonable way to divide that money, known as the "shortfall", within 30 days of the end of the season. However, doing this is risky, as the player would need to clear waivers and then not sign with another team in the 10-day waiting period when their prior team is not allowed to sign them. Indiana Fever: Victoria Vivians QO Extended Phoenix: Griner, Brittney Sign Regular Contract The earliest a player can earn a supermax contract is to sign an extension of their rookie scale contract. A cap hold is a placeholder of salary that teams are given when they have fewer than 10 players counted on the cap. Phoenix: Macee Williams Sign Rookie Scale Contract Atlanta: Jones, Ndea Waived, Washington: Williams, Christyn Waivers Cleared Indiana: Emma Cannon Waived Atlanta trades the exclusive negotiating rights to Tiffany Hayes to Connecticut in exchange for New Yorks 2023 1st round draft pick (#6). Chicago: Williams, Elizabeth Sign Regular Contract, Washington: Walker-Kimbrough, Shatori Sign Regular Contract Washington: Jones, Jazmine Sign ROS Contract First-round and second-round picks are scheduled to receive a 10% increase in their third season and a 13.64% increase in their fourth season. Connecticut: Aleksa Gulbe Sign Training Camp Contract Players earn each relevant bonus to their achievements, meaning the league MVP would earn the MVP bonus and the All-WNBA First Team bonus, barring any weird voting results. Finally, veteran extensions can qualify for the supermax if specific criteria are met. Trade bonuses do count against the cap, but only after they are paid out. Indiana Fever: Aaliyah Wilson Waived, Phoenix Mercury: Kiana Williams Sign Training Camp Contract, Washington Mystics: Sydney Wiese Waived, Chicago Sky Tina Krajisnik Sign Training Camp Contract Players with two or fewer years of service are at the lowest level, while players with three or more years of service have a higher minimum base salary. Chicago: Yueru, Li Suspended Partial Season Atlanta: McDonald, Aari Team Option Exercised, Los Angeles: Ogwumike, Chiney Sign Regular Contract Veteran extensions may last no longer than three years past the year the extension was signed. Los Angeles: Smith, Kianna 7-Day Contract Release, Connecticut: Jones, Jazmine 7-Day Contract Release Chicago: Yueru, Li Set Active Washington: Jenkins, Alisia Sign Training Camp Contract Therefore, no team can sign a player to a replacement contract under the basic hardship exception for opening night. Minnesota: McBride, Kayla Suspended Partial Season The extension can be for a salary up to the supermax usually reserved for veterans of five or more seasons beginning in 2021 (six or more seasons in 2020). 5:30 p.m. PT: Williams arrives at the arena, showers and heads to the court for warmups. Indiana: Hartey, Bria Contract Amendment Divorce, Connecticut: Holmes, Joyner Sign 7-Day 3rd Contract Indiana: Hartley, Bria Suspended Partial Season Washington: Kang, Lee Seul Waived Las Vegas: Rupert, Iliana Waived A real-time, sortable list of active WNBA contracts including total value, guaranteed money, and complete salary breakdowns. Washington: Jennifer Coleman Sign Training Camp Contract 10:20 a.m. CT: Williams first hears from her agent about the opportunity with the Storm. Dallas: DeShields, Diamond Traded1 For Related Stories: Basketball Minnesota Lynx Sports WNBA Rookies in the first year of their contracts are also considered to be on training camp contracts until the first day of the regular season. The structure of rookie contracts for each year of the CBA follows the same framework with tiers of players, length, and team options. They drafted me. Seattle: Melbourne, Jade Sign Rookie Scale Contract, Los Angeles: Liwei, Yang Sign Rookie Scale Contract, Minnesota: Banham, Rachel Sign Training Camp Contract, Phoenix: Peddy, Shey Sign Training Camp Contract This can be useful for players on guaranteed contracts with several years left on their contracts. The minimum Team Salary for each . Players may choose to do this rather than force a team to cut them if they want to stay connected to the team that drafted them in the hopes that it will increase their chances in subsequent seasons. Minnesota Lynx: Bridget Carleton Sign Training Camp Contract The maximum and supermax base salary limits increase by 3% annually, but this is not true for contracts. Las Vegas: Rupert, Iliana Sign Rookie Scale Contract, Connecticut: Jones, Jazmine Sign ROS Contract The Indiana Fever signed former Rookie of the Year Crystal Dangerfield to a hardship exemption contract. Starting in 2024, players must complete their offseason playing obligations by the start of camp or May 1 - whichever is later - or they will be suspended for the entire year. 2007 (option) $728,000. This rule only considers when the contract was signed rather than whether the player currently counts as a team's one allocated core-designated player. They also must have been under contract for at least part of each of the two previous seasons. An unrestricted free agent is free to sign with any team, including their prior team, but their prior team has no ability to dictate where the player chooses to sign. There is no 1% fine penalty for 2024 onwards. Indiana: Allen, Lindsay Waived, Phoenix: Gray, Vivian Waived New York: Jones, Jonquel Traded1, Atlanta: Mompremier, Beatrice QO Extended Phoenix: Peddy, Shey QO Extended Chicago: Maley, Anneli Sign Training Camp Contract, Indiana: Hatr, Bernadett Sign Training Camp Contract There is precedent for this, with the Phoenix Mercury pulling off the maneuver with Leilani Mitchell in 2019. Seven-day contracts cannot extend to or past the end of the regular season, so they must be signed at least eight days prior to the last day of the regular season. Atlanta Dream: Kia Vaughn- Traded from Phoenix Dallas Wings: Imani McGee-Stafford Rights Renounced When Indiana traded Stephanie Mavunga to Chicago for Jantel Lavender in 2020, both teams benefited from this rule in different ways. Minnesota: CeCe Hooks Sign Training Camp Contract All veteran players who are cut, as well as any veterans who have finished rendering the services of their contract and who have five or more years of service, will also almost always become unrestricted free agents. Los Angeles trades the contract of Olivia Nelson-Ododa, the contract of Jasmine Walker, and the exclusive negotiating rights to Kianna Smith to Connecticut in exchange for the contract of Jasmine Thomas and Connecticuts own 2023 1st round draft pick (#10). Phoenix: Dodson, Maya Waivers Cleared Dallas: Dangerfield, Crystal Sign Regular Contract Given Williams was unable to go through practice or a shootaround before playing in a game, it helped that she spent part of last season with the Storm, who drafted her out of Stanford in the second round. This means that a contract signed at the supermax in 2020 will only match the league's supermax salary in 2020 and 2021. Before free agency officially begins, players are allowed to accept qualifying offers from January 1 until January 14 but they are not allowed to negotiate any contracts until January 15. This specific number is not directly important for individual teams, because the total guarantee is the guarantee level multiplied by the number of teams in the league. January 1 or 15 are the most likely options given recent transaction history according to AcrossTheTimeline. Seattle: Williams, Kiana Hardship Release, Indiana: Smith, Alanna Waivers Cleared 17 overall pick in this year's WNBA draft by Seattle, but . Los Angeles: Smith, Kianna Sign Rookie Scale Contract Los Angeles: Smith, Kianna QO Extended First, any rookie who either goes undrafted or whose team cuts or renounces the rights to them immediately becomes an unrestricted free agent. Dallas: Dungee, Chelsea Waivers Cleared This means that a player who goes undrafted and then signs either a replacement or seven-day contract in their first year would then be governed by a rookie contract when they are signed to a standard contract. Trade bonuses are additional payments for players who are traded from one team to another. Minnesota: Milic, Nikolina Sign 7-Day 3rd Contract Indiana: Hatar, Bernadett - Non-WNBA Injury - Full Season Indiana: Perry, Chelsey Los Angeles: Cambage, Liz Waivers Cleared For every player below 10 that is included on the team's total salary, a cap hold equal to the rookie minimum is added. However, rookie scale extensions can increase or decrease by 3% of the base salary in the first season of the extension. However, players who are traded to a new team are no longer counted on their old team's salary cap. Chicago: Kaba, Masseny Waived Connecticut: Mompremier, Beatrice Waived Chicago Sky: Kaela Davis Sign Training Camp Contract, Chicago Sky: Anneli Maley Sign Training Camp Contract Las Vegas: Gray, Chelsea Contract Amendment Time-Off Bonus 4:30 p.m. PT: Williams' flight arrives at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport gates about two and a half hours before tip-off. This is often used for foreign players as well as players who could use a year off after an injury. Chicago: Gardner, Rebekah Sign Regular Contract Connecticut Sun: Stephanie Jones Sign Training Camp Contract, Los Angeles Sparks: Tea Cooper Sign Training Camp Contract, Atlanta Dream: Megan Walker Awarded on Waivers Indiana: Perry, Chelsey Sign Training Camp Contract In years with an Olympic hiatus, the expanded schedule for games translates to an expanded schedule for payments. Dallas: Thompson, Unique Waivers Cleared Seven-day contracts also count on a team's total salary even after they expire. Notably, the NBA exempted hardship contracts from counting against team salary, meaning teams didn't have to choose between managing luxury-tax payments and adding needed players. Salary paid to players on hardship contracts could ultimately take the Storm over the cap and prevent the team from adding a 12th player late in the season. No. Chicago took on a contract with a lower salary hit, Mavunga's $57,000 compared to Lavender's $117,000, providing the flexibility to sign an additional player while staying under the cap. Phoenix: Maya Dodson Required Tender Made They may only be signed in the second half of the season. The rules do not apply to players with 0, 1 or 2 years of service in the WNBA. Third-round picks are scheduled to receive a 5% increase in their third season and a 14.29% increase in their fourth season. Minnesota: Turner, Yvonne Waived Minnesota: Smalls, Kamiah Hardship Release Teams are ranked by their win-loss percentage over the past two seasons, regardless of differences in games played. Until one of those things happens, the player's salary remains on the team's salary cap. Phoenix Mercury: Kia Nurse QO Extended The tables below show the terms for rookie contracts by draft class. Storm general manager Talisa Rhea is there to pick her up for the 16-mile drive to Climate Pledge Arena in rush-hour traffic, perhaps a bit muted by people leaving early ahead of the three-day weekend. This means if a two-year veteran extension is signed with one year left on the original contract, the contract now runs for a total of three more years: the one remaining year of the original contract and the two years of the extension. Connecticut: Mompremier, Beatrice Awarded on Waivers The only contracts that must have base salary protection are fourth-year option seasons on rookie contracts and signed core qualifying offers. Since a standard minimum is $58,710, this is about a 1% difference. No, not all players whose contracts have expired become free agents. 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