
‘More money is coming’: Canada’s Nurse on one-year deal with WNBA’s Chicago Sky
Newly signed Chicago Sky guard Kia Nurse chose her free-agency destination carefully.
Currently in Nashville, Tenn., for her first Athletes Unlimited basketball season, Nurse tapped into the experience of the 39 players around her to help assess whether Chicago would be a good fit. This was in addition to the regular team meetings that take place around free agency.
When it came time to decide on a contract length, with the WNBA collective bargaining agreement set to expire at season’s end just before a $2.2 billion US media deal kicks in, Nurse made an easy choice and signed a one-year deal.
“At the end of the day, more money is coming,” said Nurse, who agreed to terms with Chicago last week. “So I was taking that one-year deal because more money is coming, and we deserve to get paid and we are going to get paid. Period.”