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, not like 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 12 months within the league. Her verify goes from roughly $85K final season to round $528K this 12 months, per The Athletic.
Greater than that, as ESPN’s Alexa Philippou defined, she’ll be eligible for an excellent greater bump in her wage subsequent season, so the Fever could need to make some sacrifices.
The Fever are constructing round Caitlin Clark
“Not stunning to see Indiana dealing out one-year offers (Kelsey Mitchell too). Bear in mind, Caitlin Clark can get an enormous wage bump subsequent 12 months beneath the brand new EPIC provision (Aliyah Boston is eligible for it this 12 months). Fever must do some retooling to suit everybody beneath the cap,” Philippou shared on X.
