Former WNBA participant Liz Cambage has a blunt message for the league's present athletes: get off the court docket to make some money.
Cambage, 34, turned to OnlyFans after leaving the WNBA in 2022 following a profession that started over 10 years earlier than. She began her OnlyFans account in 2025, and has since claimed to make rather more cash on the platform than she ever did within the WNBA. “I really feel like girls gotta earn more money enjoying the game they love,” Cambage told TMZ when approached at LAX airport on Monday, October 6.
She added: “I feel everybody has gotta get it how they will … as I'm standing right here in a mink.”
Cambage additionally had recommendation for gamers as they negotiate a brand new Collective Bargaining Settlement (CBA) to hopefully increase their salaries. “Simply be you. Keep on with your persona,” she mentioned. “I really feel like again within the day, there wasn't a chance or an area for ladies to be who they're, however now, I really feel like girls being extra girly or incomes their sexuality extra, and it's enjoyable.”
Although she started her profession enjoying for the WNBL in Australia, Cambage was drafted because the No. 2 general choose within the 2011 WNBA Draft by the Tulsa Shock and was a part of the All-Star Recreation that yr.
Cambage introduced after the 2012 Olympic Video games that she didn't intend to return to the WNBA to complete out the remainder of the season. She finally performed for the Shock once more in 2013, and left the WNBA once more till her return to play for the Dallas Wings in 2018. She was traded to the Las Vegas in 2019 and opted to take a seat out the 2020 season as a consequence of fears surrounding COVID-19. Cambage signed with the Los Angeles Sparks in 2022 and introduced her determination to depart the WNBA in August of the identical yr.
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The subject of salaries has dominated the 2025 WNBA season, which is able to conclude this month after the Finals between the Las Vegas Aces and Phoenix Mercury is determined. The Ladies's Nationwide Basketball Participant's Affiliation (the union for gamers within the league also known as the WNBPA) is advocating for elevated income sharing that's proportional to the league's extraordinary progress because the 2024 season. This is able to enhance participant salaries, which at present start at $66,079 for some rookies and cap out at $214,466 this season.
Whether or not or not a brand new CBA might be negotiated in time is up for debate. The present CBA, signed in 2020, is about to run out on the finish of October, and up to date developments within the league might push again a timeline for any type of decision. On September 30, Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier blasted WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert throughout her exit interview with the crew.
Collier, 29, claimed that Engelbert, 60, mentioned (amongst different issues) that newcomers corresponding to Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and Paige Bueckers “ought to be on their knees, thanking their fortunate stars for the media rights deal that I acquired them.” Engelbert denied Collier's assertion and informed reporters point-blank, “I didn't make these feedback” on Friday, October 3.
