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WNBA’s $270,000 Salary Floor Meets a One-Sentence Gender Eligibility Rule as Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White Challenge the 2027 Draft
The WNBA says there is no immediate eligibility matter after Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White announced intentions to pursue the 2027 draft. The deeper issue is a long-standing women-only eligibility sentence, a dramatically richer compensation structure and what the CBA does and does not define.