With reports that the WNBA and its players’ association reached a verbal agreement on the terms of a new collective bargaining agreement a couple of weeks ago, former Sacramento Kings point guard Jason Williams gave a shout-out to the ladies for getting their due during the recent episode of the “Hoopin N Hollerin” podcast.
When Williams’ co-host Adam Ferrone told him that he thought J-Will hated the WNBA, the 2006 NBA champion clarified that he has nothing against the “W”. It’s just that he doesn’t believe that women’s sports and men’s sports are comparable.
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“I don’t really hate the WNBA, it’s just that I get kind of tired about how people compare women’s sports to men’s sports. There’s just levels to everything. And that’s not taking away from women because some of them women are great at all sports. But shout out to them for getting their bread, and maybe getting to fly on the private Delta junk and all that, getting the nicer buses, nicer hotels,”explained J-Will.
WNBA and its players agree to a deal 51 days before the start of the next season
As reported by ESPN’s Shams Charania, the WNBA’s salary cap will be raised from $1.5 million in the past campaign to $7 million beginning next season. The supermax salary will also balloon from $249,244 to $1.4 million, while the average salary will increase from $125,000 in 2025 to $600,000, and the minimum salary will be pegged at $300,000, up from $69,079 last season.
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The agreement came 17 months after the players opted out of the latest CBA, which expired in October 2025 and ended a tense eight-month period where it looked like the parties would not reach an agreement, and the 2026 season could be impacted. However, with less than two months to go before the start of the new campaign, a deal was finally agreed upon. But while Williams congratulated the women, he insisted he isn’t changing his previous stand on them.
“But with all that being said, me and Billy Gilmore are still in their a–, shorty. I promise you, 94 Panthers… I’ll take that to my grave,” he added.
White Chocolate says his HS team would beat the WNBA All-Star team
It can be recalled that Williams caused a stir when he declared on the same show five months ago that his high school basketball team, which also featured NFL Hall of Famer Randy Moss and reached the Class AAA state championship game, would convincingly beat a WNBA All-Star team.
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“1994 DuPont High School in West Virginia would beat the WNBA All-Star team today,” Williams declared last October. “Ain’t no way (that they’re beating us). What’s A’ja Wilson doing to J-Will on the court? If she get 30, I’m getting 60…”
Williams’ take came after Brooklyn Nets forward Michael Porter Jr. first claimed that a selection of WNBA stars would not beat a men’s high school all-star team because men have natural physical advantages over women. “White Chocolate”still holds that saying, despite the women getting a significant salary raise.
This story was originally published by Basketball Network on Mar 29, 2026, where it first appeared in the Latest News section. Add Basketball Network as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
