Draft for 2 new WNBA teams drafting current players from teams. On CBS Sports. She is going to Toronto.
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She's from Chatham which is about 2/3 of the way from Toronto to Detroit, so maybe a 2 1/2 to 3 hr drive.
Maybe even more importantly, her family and friends will be able to watch her games on TV as they are all televised on channels in Canada that most people get (TSN and Sportsnet). Alot of US feeds don't cross the border into Canada so her profile in Canada will increase.
Wow. Over Caitlin Clark, the greatest to ever do it or so I'm told
I think the current teams get to tag a certain number of their players to be ineligible for the expansion draft
I mean each team protects five players. CC wasn’t available.
Each team gets to protect 5 players. CC obviously wasn't available. Actually kind of surprised Minnesota didn't include Carleton in their protected 5.
Probably they thought that Toronto would pick her and she would relish the chance playing at home. Didn’t think Portland would nab her first
I think when the nhl added the knights it was each team could reserve x amount of players and whoever wasn’t reserved was an eligible draft pick.
I think financially she will be compensated well. She can play for one year and then go play somewhere else after this season.
WNBA expansion draft results, winners and losers: Tempo, Fire select initial rosters ahead of 2026 season
The 14th and 15th WNBA franchises finally have rosters, and the implications are far-reaching
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Each expansion team was only allowed to select one unrestricted free agent; the Fire chose Carleton and the Tempo chose Mabrey. The assumption is that both players will receive the core designation -- why draft a UFA if you aren't going to core them? -- which grants their new team exclusive negotiating rights and comes with an automatic one-year, fully guaranteed supermax contract offer.
Thanks to the new CBA, the supermax for 2026 comes in at $1.4 million. Carleton made $125,000 last season while Mabrey made $210,000.
Carleton and Mabrey are not required to take the one-year supermax and could negotiate long-term deals with their respective new clubs if they wish. Regardless of which route they each take, both now have the leverage to command a life-changing pay raise.
