Erica Barris
speaker
426 appearances
11 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 21 Aug
Erica Barris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And this time, it was the players who gave the league a hardball deadline.
You have till 9.30 p.m.
The league, for their part, is going to lose even more money if there's a strike because there will not be games.
And if it goes on long enough, they could fully lose fans, lose momentum.
That pie could start getting smaller instead of continuing to grow.
Alicia has notes in her journal.
Proud of this group.
For another 24 hours, they went back and forth on details.
And then, on March 18th, day eight, at 2 a.m., Alicia and Brianna and the rest of the players are scattered around the conference room, lying in their blankets...
Alicia and the other players are looking at each other.
Holy crap.
We really just got this done.
She recorded her final diary entry from the negotiations.
This agreement was a big deal.
At the draft a few weeks later, the WNBA commissioner called it the first comprehensive revenue share model in the history of women's professional sports.
And the ref share is just one of the big changes.
The players secured housing for everyone and even one-time payments to retired players so they get a cut too.
And salaries overall are way higher.
So now, the player's math, built on the math of a Nobel laureate, is embedded in the pages of every WNBA player's contract.
Alicia gets to keep her reputation as a winner.
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