Uncasville, CT (May 31, 2022) - The Connecticut Sun announced today that the team has signed forward Stephanie Jones to a hardship contract. Chicago: Emmanuelle Tahane Sign Training Camp Contract Phoenix: Simms, Jennie 7-Day Contract Release Activities like soccer or baseball are also deemed to be an excessive risk-yet softball is explicitly listed as an acceptable activity. Offer sheets may be negotiated at any time beginning on January 15, but may not be signed until February 1. Washington: Shakira Austin Sign Rookie Scale Contract Atlanta: Caldwell, Maya Sign 7-Day 1st Contract Indiana: Williams-Holliday, Ameshya Waivers Cleared Los Angeles: Talbot, Stephanie Non-WNBA Injury Full Season These contracts are used as a flexible alternative to standard or rest-of-season contracts when filling out the roster, or when covering for an injured player. Minnesota: Sjerven, Hannah Sign ROS Contract (Hardship) Minnesota: Davis, Rennia Waivers Cleared The difference is huge between 10 days of NBA competition compared to an entire G League season. Time off bonuses are prorated in the same manner as base salaries, based on the portion of the season a player was on the team's active list. Indiana: Smith, NaLyssa Sign Rookie Scale Contract If a player goes undrafted, they immediately become an unrestricted free agent and are free to sign a rookie-scale contract at the undrafted base salary for either one or two years. Phoenix: Gilles, Mael Waivers Cleared 4:30 p.m. PT: Williams' flight arrives at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport gates about two and a half hours before tip-off. For seasons after the first year of the extension, a veteran player's base salary can increase or decrease by a maximum of 3% of the base salary in the last season of the original contract. Bonuses for All-Star Game selections are only paid out for years that the All-Star festivities are held. Seattle Storm: Jordin Canada QO Extended New York: Allen, Rebecca Set Active 1-4 in the 2022 WNBA Draft, the base salary is expected to be $72,141 in year one. 3-4 picks in reverse order of their winning percentage over the past two seasons. Until one of those things happens, the player's salary remains on the team's salary cap. All those players informed their teams before the season that they did not intend to play that season, which is why it is called a voluntary suspension. Minnesota: Allen, Lindsay Sign 7-Day 1st Contract The Indiana Fever signed former Rookie of the Year Crystal Dangerfield to a hardship exemption contract. Minnesota: Hooks, CeCe Waivers Cleared Indiana: Nared, Jaime Waived For players without a guaranteed contract, this request is not relevant if the team cuts the player immediately after the injury occurs. Base salary protection is an agreement between a player and their team that allows a player to still receive their base salary in the event of being released due to lack of skill, injury, or illness. Phoenix: Macee Williams Required Tender Made Since a standard minimum is $58,710, this is about a 1% difference. New York: Shook, Kylee Rights Renounced Professional basketball career. Phoenix: Onyenwere, Michaela Traded1 For the 2021 season, players who have played three or more seasons on contracts that were signed while under the core designation may not be cored again. 2007 (option) $728,000. Dallas: Jasmine Dickey- Sign Rookie Scale Contract Indiana is trading the contract of Julie Allemand to Chicago, Seattle Storm: Breanna Stewart Sign Regular Contract Phoenix: Gray, Reshanda Sign 7-Day 1st Contract Las Vegas: Young, Jackie Contract Amendment Time-Off Bonus Cunane was originally selected by the Seattle Storm with the 17th overall pick in the . Atlanta: Billings, Monique Sign Regular Contract A seven-day contract is exactly what it sounds like, a contract that is in effect for only seven days. The specified amount for the trade bonus can either be expressed as a percentage of remaining base salary or as a specific dollar amount. They may play professional or amateur basketball prior to being drafted, but they cannot play collegiately in the United States. New York: Prince, Epiphanny Sign Training Camp Contract The standard maximum is for 14.2% of the salary cap and the supermax is for 16.5% of the salary cap. She also had some snacks at the arena, she said, "But I was really going off adrenaline Friday night.". Connecticut: Gulbe, Aleksa Waivers Cleared Despite the delay of the 2020 WNBA season until late July, players still received their first paycheck on June 1. New York: Dangerfield, Crystal Sign ROS Contract 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. Dallas: Bertsch, Morgan Waivers Cleared $700,000. This gets the Fever, a team under the team minimum, closer to that benchmark and lessens the shortfall the team owed its players by about $45,000. When the NBA dealt with COVID-19 outbreaks during the height of the winter Omicron wave, the league modified its hardship rules to enable rosters that are already far bigger -- NBA teams can have up to 17 players, including two on two-way contracts, to the WNBA's maximum of 12 -- to expand quickly. Dallas Wings: Destinee Walker Sign Training Camp Contract, Las Vegas Aces: Sydney Colson Sign Training Camp Contract Thus, they do not affect the team minimum or league-wide guarantee unless the player makes the team and it becomes a standard contract. Phoenix: Gustafson, Megan Sign Training Camp Contract ", Added Loyd: "If we had a G League, it would help. Dallas: McCowan, Teaira Sign Regular Contract The 5-7 guard was drafted in the second round of the 2021 WNBA Draft by Las Vegas and went on to play 21 games with the Aces in her rookie season. The Collective Bargaining Agreement, is the agreement between the WNBA and the WNBA Players Association. They are constant for the length of the CBA, and they cannot increase as team bonuses can. Minnesota: Hannah Sjerven Required Tender Made There is no 1% fine penalty for 2024 onwards. Waiting to cut the player until the team can apply to the league is the only way players without guaranteed money can be taken off the cap in the year they are cut. Dallas trades the contract of Allisha Gray to Atlanta in exchange for Atlantas own 2023 1st round pick (#3) and Atlantas own 2025 1st round pick. Washington: Machida, Rui QO Extended We will refer to these players as domestic players. While partial salary protection is allowed for a single season (i.e. If the trade bonus would bring the player over the maximum, it must also be amended accordingly. This is because the complete salary cap hit of a player is transferred to their new team when they are traded, even if the other team has paid a large portion of the players salary for that season. May 31, 2022 2:52 PM EDT. New York: Han, Xu QO Extended, Chicago: Gardner, Rebekah QO Extended Chicago: Maley, Anneli Waived Phoenix: Cunningham, Sophie Sign Regular Contract SEATTLE The Seattle Storm announced today the team has signed forward Kaela Davis to a hardship contract. That would be an additional $12,875 in bonuses, bringing them up to a grand total of $56,631. However, she was able to sign for an extra year and for the full supermax by structuring the deal to be a sign-and-trade where she initially re-signed with Phoenix, her previous team. Los Angeles Sparks: Katie Lou Samuelson Trade from Seattle Storm* Dallas Wings: Morgan Bertsch Sign Training Camp Contract Drafted players are given contracts that last three seasons with a team option for a fourth year. Washington Mystics: Megan Gustafson QO Extended Yesterday, the Lynx traded their eighth and 13th overall picks to the Las Vegas Aces in exchange for the Ace's 2023 first and second round picks. Indiana Fever: Jantel Lavender Contract Amendment Divorce, Indiana Fever: Jaime Nared Sign Training Camp Contract Indiana: Vivians, Victoria Sign Regular Contract, Chicago: Harrison, Isabelle Sign Regular Contract Phoenix: Simms, Jennie Hardship Release Although the financial factor isn't as important with the WNBA's hard salary cap, there is an impact. Dallas: Thompson, Unique Waivers Cleared The supermax is about 16% higher than the standard maximum. However, undrafted players cannot have their rookie contracts extended. Phoenix: Diggins-Smith, Skylar Suspended Partial Season Atlanta: Hayes, Tiffany Suspended Partial Season This means that for the remaining eight picks of the first round, the playoff team with the highest winning percentage that season gets No. "Honestly, it wasn't anything difficult," Williams said of Friday's journey. The exception is cored players. Veteran extensions may last no longer than three years past the year the extension was signed. This is often used for foreign players as well as players who could use a year off after an injury. Phoenix: Gray, Reshanda 7-Day Contract Release, New York: Cubaj, Lorela Waivers Cleared Connecticut: Williams, Courtney Set Active This means if the league has total salaries that are $100,000 below the league-wide guarantee, but one team has to pay a shortfall of $150,000 to reach the team minimum, then the league's total salaries would also rise by $150,000 and take the league over the guarantee level. Connecticut: Hayes, Keyona Waived Phoenix: Cunningham, Sophie QO Extended Connecticut: Williams, Courtney Suspended Partial Season 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. Coring and reserving players requires the player's previous team to extend some form of qualifying offer to retain the exclusive negotiating rights to the player, while those rights automatically go to the team for suspended - contract expired players. Las Vegas trades the contract of Dearica Hamby and Las Vegass own 2024 1st round draft pick to Los Angeles in exchange for the exclusive negotiating rights to Amanda Zahui B. and Los Angeless own 2024 2nd round draft pick. Phoenix: Charles, Tina Contract Amendment Divorce, Minnesota: Westbrook, Evina Waived For example, if a player enrolls in college in the Fall of 2021 and graduates in just three years in the Spring of 2024, they would be eligible for the 2024 draft in April regardless of their age, provided they choose to renounce their remaining collegiate eligibility. Time off bonuses also count on the cap, even before the player has met the requirements to earn it. Seattle: Plaisance, Theresa Sign Regular Contract Minnesota: Shepard, Jessica Sign Contract Extension Minnesota: Carleton, Bridget Sign Regular Contract The maximum and supermax base salary limits increase by 3% annually, but this is not true for contracts. 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. Dallas: Howard, Natasha- Traded1 Davis signed a hardship contract with the Storm on May 13 and was active for one game before being released from the contract on May 18. Phoenix: Simms, Jennie Waived Vandersloot to New York, the rise of superteams and a Liberty-Aces WNBA Finals? These partial season contracts are prorated based on the percentage of days in the season the player is under contract, so by definition, the player will earn less than a full minimum salary. Westbrook, a 6-0 guard, was drafted 21st overall by the Seattle Storm in the 2022 WNBA Draft and . Phoenix: Gustafson, Megan QO Extended Washington Burke, Kennedy Set Active Connecticut Sun: Stephanie Jones QO Extended No. This does not include players given a medical exemption as we saw in the 2020 season. "Austin's airport is terrible in the sense that there's no TSA PreCheck (line)," she said. Jones, a 6-1 forward, appeared in 139 . The updated 2022 Lynx roster can be viewed here . For eligible players, if the team subsequently extends a restricted qualifying offer by the January 14 deadline, or within 48 hours of a withdrawal that takes place after January 12, then the player would become a restricted free agent. After the offer sheet is agreed upon and submitted, the prior team has to either match or decline to match the offer within the next four days. Chicago: Kayla Wells Sign Training Camp Contract Indiana: Hatar, Bernadett - Non-WNBA Injury - Full Season Indiana: Perry, Chelsey This means that a contract signed at the supermax in 2020 will only match the league's supermax salary in 2020 and 2021. August 3, 2021. Atlanta Dream: Erica McCall - ROS (Hardship) Contract Signed. Connecticut: Jones, Jazmine Waivers Cleared Connecticut: Fields, Nirra Sign Training Camp Contract, Connecticut: Anigwe, Kristine Waived 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. 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