Fever President's 5-Word Message About WNBA Roster Sizes Speaks Volumes

While there are several frustrating aspects of the WNBA's current Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), one that affects entire franchises is the 12-player limit on rosters once the regular season begins.

Not only does this force teams to cut high-level players that otherwise deserve a spot in the world's best women's basketball league, but it can handicap clubs when several players get injured in a short amount of time.

This was the case with the Indiana Fever over the past week, when guards Caitlin Clark, Sophie Cunningham, and Sydney Colson all suffered leg injuries, thus limiting Indiana's active roster to having one guard (Kelsey Mitchell) heading into June.

The Fever atoned for this by signing Aari McDonald to an emergency hardship exception contract on Monday, which acts as a way for teams to add players to their roster in the wake of injuries piling up. However, the Fever wouldn't have needed to scramble to add an emergency guard if WNBA teams were allowed to have 15 players on their roster like NBA teams do.

This is the sentiment that Fever President and COO Kelly Krauskopf shared when speaking with the media on June 1.

"More bodies would be good," Krauskopf said when a laugh when asked about the WNBA only having 12 available roster spots for players at the moment, per an X post from Chloe Peterson of IndyStar.