Aces' A'ja Wilson's $1.4 million contract update signals new era in WNBA

Following eight successive days of negotiations in New York City, the WNBA and the Women's National Basketball Players Association have reached a deal on a landmark new collective bargaining agreement that will include substantial pay hikes for all players.

But for the league's elite -- like the Las Vegas Aces' four-time MVP A'ja Wilson -- they will become the first players in WNBA history to take home million-dollar salaries.

That's because, pending formalization and ratification by the Board of Governors, the WNBA's new supermax salary will start at $1.4 million. And Wilson -- who made just $200,000 in 2025 -- could be the first beneficiary.

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According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal's Callie Fin, the Aces plan to re-sign Wilson to the new $1.4 million supermax "as soon as possible."

For years, Wilson had agreed to take a lower salary so the Aces could build a contender. Now that Vegas has won three of the past four WNBA championships -- and since Wilson won Finals MVP in a four-game sweep of the Phoenix Mercury last year -- the 29-year-old will become the league's top-earning player in short order.

NEW: Now that terms for a new WNBA CBA have been set, the Aces will sign 4-time MVP A'ja Wilson to the new $1.4 million supermax as soon as possible, sources told @reviewjournal ⬇️https://t.co/DahAYJjBYA

Wilson is a pending free agent, like 80 percent of the WNBA's players. But leaving Las Vegas never has been on the cards for Wilson, the #1 overall pick of the Aces in 2018 and a player who has since won three WNBA titles and three Defensive Player of the Year awards in addition to her MVPs.

“I think everyone knows where my heart is. And my heart’s always going to be in Vegas," Wilson told the Review-Journal last year. "So if I leave here, it’s because they sent me away. Know that. Because I love it. This is my second home, and I don’t see myself leaving.”

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