Will The WNBA Players Strike?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
These, the love streak, thet y'all, man, if he right here,
would me, oh you even know it sports.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm just here so I won't get fined.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Inside Leons locker room on one of seven five GCR
NBA action was fantastic last night as we get ready
to get closer and closer to the playoffs, get ready
to get ready to get The Wizards beat the Pistons
one twenty nine twenty five. Lakers, Uh, they've been struggling lately.
The Bucks get to win one twenty six to one
oh seven. Yeah, magic over the Pelicans one thirteen to

(00:29):
ninety three. The Warriors dominate the Kings one thirty to
one oh four. But the game of the night Bulls
took on the nets. The Bulls get to win. I
know that's gonna upset that one sixteen to one. T
wow ay y'all winning. Tank it up, Man, Tank tank
it up? Tanky R and b Singer tanking.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
And I want to say this about the Lakers, okay,
because when Lebron comes back and they start winning again,
and let's say they go far and Lucas scores more
points in certain games, they're gonna be like, well, it's
because of Luca le Bron hanging on Lucas Cup. No,
as you see, when Lucas by himself even though he
had forty three, they lost by twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Okay, so when Lebron comes.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Back and they start winning and he may have more points,
I want you to know why he matters.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Like to know Angel Reese, you know, shout out to
Angel Reese recent cup.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
She's caution that the WNBA.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
The caution the NBA WNBA that players may strike if
their salaries do not see an increase. Now, the WA
NBA has recently chosen to opt out of his existing
collective bargaining agreement, which is set to expire this coming
October instead of twenty twenty seven. Now. Player conversation is
one of the issues causing friction between the league and

(01:44):
Recents indicated that she and her teammates might choose to
refrain from playing if their request are not addressed. She said,
I need to be in the players' union meetings because
I'm hearing that if the league doesn't give us what
we want, we're sitting out. That's a possibility for real.
I love how y'all have selective hearing. I said, I'm
hearing if they don't give us what we want. We're
sitting out and that's the truth.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Oh okay, I said what you say. I see what
she's saying. She's saying because people were saying this. If
angel re said I'm sitting out if it doesn't right,
she and I think she's trying to clear that up.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
But she's saying this. I'm hearing that.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
If negotiations the players union, of course I'm riding with
the with the players, Okay, different.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
So I'm playing devil's advocate. I'm on the owner's side.
You guys signed the deal that's supposed to go to
twenty twenty seven, and now y'all trying to back out
of that deal. So as a business owner, you know
what if I say I do, I'm gonna do because
most of these business owners, this is a toy for them.
It's not a it's not the main So Reverends.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Got to hit the road. The rubber hit the road.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
I mean, I think I think if I really think
they're gonna work it out, because you said these times
say they would usually.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Do, and the players that are about to come in
this year, it's only.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Going to kind of like letting them know, like Hey,
if you don't, we'll like kind of go and strike.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
But I don't think.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
It's I think a great negotiation is both sides are
going to give in now yea, yeah, you know what
I'm saying, and they'll play.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
I think that's what's going on.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
I think they're just letting them know we're willing to
go that distance.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
They need them more.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Who the players need the league to stay a lot
not they will be all in Russia.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
We need there's other leagues. There's other league. They all
been playing on them now.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
I just feel like the with the excitement of the
w n b A where it's at now, where this
will not be a good time for the players to
stry to break the moment.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
I wouldn't want to break momentimum.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
I wouldn't be a good thing for the league to
lose those players because without the Angel reason, the Caitlin Clark,
we're not talking about the.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
W n b A like that. I get what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
I'm not saying that dude, don't need to play with you,
that you gotta meet in the middle.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Both go meet in the middle. You gotta meet in
the middle.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
But I don't think the w n B A players
have as much leverage as they think they do because
at the end of the day, the end of the day,
the owners can say, hey, hey man, we talked about this,
and y'all fi in this collective bargaining agreement they're supposed
to go to twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Y'all are literally trying to back out of a deal
right now.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah, because they're getting way more advertised, they getting way
more money in.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
The owner is like, I want to get this two
years before we have the thing.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
What's coming up?

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Man?

Speaker 2 (04:15):
In the Z spot? A man, the Z Spot is
on the way to