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Former WNBA player Liz Cambage has a blunt message for the league’s current athletes: get off the court to make some cash.
Cambage, 34, turned to OnlyFans after leaving the WNBA in 2022 following a career that began over 10 years before. She started her OnlyFans account in 2025, and has since claimed to make much more money on the platform than she ever did in the WNBA. “I feel like women gotta make more money playing the sport they love,” Cambage told TMZ when approached at LAX airport on Monday, October 6.
She added: “I think everyone has gotta get it how they can … as I’m standing here in a mink.”
Cambage also had advice for players as they negotiate a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) to hopefully raise their salaries. “Just be you. Stick to your personality,” she said. “I feel like back in the day, there wasn’t an opportunity or a space for women to be who they are, but now, I feel like women being more girly or earning their sexuality more, and it’s fun.”
Though she began her career playing for the WNBL in Australia, Cambage was drafted as the No. 2 overall pick in the 2011 WNBA Draft by the Tulsa Shock and was part of the All-Star Game that year.
Cambage announced after the 2012 Olympic Games that she did not intend to return to the WNBA to finish out the rest of the season. She ultimately played for the Shock again in 2013, and left the WNBA again until her return to play for the Dallas Wings in 2018. She was traded to the Las Vegas in 2019 and opted to sit out the 2020 season due to fears surrounding COVID-19. Cambage signed with the Los Angeles Sparks in 2022 and announced her decision to leave the WNBA in August of the same year.
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The topic of salaries has dominated the 2025 WNBA season, which will conclude this month after the Finals between the Las Vegas Aces and Phoenix Mercury is decided. The Women’s National Basketball Player’s Association (the union for players in the league often referred to as the WNBPA) is advocating for increased revenue sharing that is proportional to the league’s extraordinary growth since the 2024 season. This would increase player salaries, which currently begin at $66,079 for some rookies and cap out at $214,466 this season.
Whether or not a new CBA will be negotiated in time is up for debate. The current CBA, signed in 2020, is set to expire at the end of October, and recent developments in the league may push back a timeline for any kind of resolution. On September 30, Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier blasted WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert during her exit interview with the team.
Collier, 29, claimed that Engelbert, 60, said (among other things) that newcomers such as Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and Paige Bueckers “should be on their knees, thanking their lucky stars for the media rights deal that I got them.” Engelbert denied Collier’s assertion and told reporters point-blank, “I did not make those comments” on Friday, October 3.
