The WNBA season is two days away and the teams are making final cuts before Thursday’s league deadline for setting opening night rosters.
No mercy is being given to veterans or rookies. The WNBA, with just 144 available roster spots, is the toughest professional league to get into and stay in.
As calls for expansion grow louder (it doesn’t appear that commissioner Cathy Englebert is in a rush to add teams for the 2024 season, though), fans are becoming more nervous as more and more players are cast aside.
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The Sporting News looks at who has been waived in recent days.
What does it mean to be waived?
Being waived is an official term for being cut by a team.
The waiver procedure in the WNBA begins with a team ending its contractural obligation to a player, removing her from its roster and placing her on waivers.
Over the next 48 hours, the other teams in the league are able to claim the player’s contract. If multiple teams submit a claim, then the league will award the contract to the team with the highest waiver priority. Waiver priority is based on inverse order of standings; the team with the worst record is given first priority.
If no team claims the player, then…
