David Sampson

And that's not the end of the world for them because they have options.

It's just because people are not actually paying attention to what's real about this negotiation because they believe that this is their moment because of all the great press around Caitlin Clark and the excitement of the WNBA.

And I am not in any way impugning

the right of players to make as much money as they can.

Because if you can go overseas, if you can go to Unrivaled, if you can go make a living and it's a better living, go make it.

It's like on any business.

If you can make more money at the ringer, people are gonna go to the ringer.

That's how it goes in life.

And in the WNBA, if the players can make more money elsewhere, they're going to go elsewhere, and that's what's going to happen.

I don't think it's too soon or too much.

I'm telling you right now that there is not going to be an agreement before the new year, before this extra extension, which ends January 7th, I believe.

I think there are more moves to be made by both sides, but an agreement is not a guarantee.

And if the Players Association believes that Adam Silver is going to cave, they are wrong.

I can't give you a date because that would, it's not even journalistically proper to give a date because this negotiation could go on for three months, six months.

It could go on for two years, negotiating with a players union.

We've seen that in sports.

You just don't know.

But I would be very careful being cocky if I'm the WNBA Players Association, but finding optionality matters and that's what the women have been doing.

So I give them credit for that.

But I'll tell you, owners don't care.