The Women’s National Basketball Players Association said it has a handful of priorities for negotiations, including getting a cut of revenue, higher salaries, and improving benefits for retirees and pregnancy.
The Indiana Fever star became the first rookie to make the team since Candace Parker did it in 2008. She’s the fifth rookie ever to have the honor.
If the union does opt out, the current CBA, which was set to expire in 2027, will still be in effect next season, so the two sides have a year to come to an agreement.
The league also will change the opening-round format in the playoffs to ensure the lower seeded team plays a home game.
The move comes just two weeks after the team announced longtime executive Kelly Krauskopf would return in the role of president of business and basketball operations.
The loss prevents the Fever from returning home for a sold-out game Friday night in Indianapolis, where tickets on the secondary market were priced at hundreds to thousands of dollars.
Kelly Krauskopf led the Indiana Fever from 2000 to 2018 and built the team into one of the league’s most successful franchises, with 13 postseason appearances and three WNBA finals berths in seven years.
Todd Taylor explains how the Indiana Fever and Pacers are using rapidly advancing technology to build customer profiles of attendees, customize the communication and offers they receive and adjust ticket pricing.
Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark missed 10 of her first 11 shots after getting poked in the eye in the team’s 93-69 loss to the host Connecticut Sun on Sunday.
More than five months after the Indiana Fever drafted Caitlin Clark at No. 1 overall in the WNBA draft, local sports and tourism leaders are eager to further grow the state’s role in women’s sports.
The Indiana Fever rested their starters for most of their final regular-season game Thursday night in Washington, D.C., allowing the host Mystics to pull out a 92-91 victory before a crowd of 20,711, the largest in WNBA regular-season history.
The NCAA’s all-time leading scorer added another scoring title to her résumé during a 110-109 victory Sunday over the Dallas Wings at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
Caitlin Clark is up to 321 assists in her first year in the WNBA, breaking the mark of 316 set last season by Alyssa Thomas of the Connecticut Sun.
Pacers executive Todd Taylor was the keynote speaker at IBJ’s Tech Exec of the Year event, which honored 10 technology leaders from business and government.
Barber, who has led the Fever since 2019, plans to help lead the development of a new effort focused on empowering Indiana girls and women through sports called the Marvella Project.
The team didn’t play Tuesday night, but it still clinched its first playoff appearance since 2016 by virtue of the Chicago Sky and Atlanta Dream losing their games. The seven-year playoff drought was the longest active streak in the league.
Olivia West developed an entrepreneurial mindset as a 4-H champion in La Porte and honed her talent for working crowds on a makeshift stage in her family’s barn. Now she’s hosting Fever and Pacers games—and that’s just her side job.
In mid-June, senior WNBA staff told Pacers Sports & Entertainment that the chosen location for the 2025 All-Star Game was in flux, creating an opening for Indianapolis.
The game will be played at Gainbridge Fieldhouse and—thanks to No. 1 draft pick Caitlin Clark—comes amid a massive spike in interest both for the Indiana Fever franchise and the league as a whole.
Indianapolis hosted the NBA All-Star Game in February, which would make the WNBA pick for next year’s event only the third time since the league’s founding in 1999 that a city has been named as host of both midseason events in back-to-back years.
