New CBA includes a section on 'game cadence' that addresses back-to-backs and breaks between playoff games

Stewie mentioned this on the latest episode of her podcast and I couldn't remember hearing about it before so I went and looked it up.

One wonders how easy it would be for players to prove that "reasonable and good faith efforts" were not made for future schedules, but it's certainly better than nothing (which was what the 2020 CBA had):

Game Cadence.

(a) Prior to creating an initial draft of the game schedule each year, the WNBA will consult the Medical Director and Players Association with respect to issues relating to game cadence and player health.

(b) The WNBA will make reasonable and good faith efforts, taking into account, among other things, the availability of arenas and the requirements of league media partners, to schedule Regular Season games

(i) to manage the number of back-to-back games (i.e., games played by a Team on consecutive days) as much as possible, and

(ii) to provide at least twenty (20) hours between the scheduled start of a Team’s first game of a back-to-back and the scheduled start of the Team’s second game of a back-to-back.

(c) The WNBA will make reasonable and good faith efforts, taking into account, among other things, the availability of arenas and the requirements of league media partners, to schedule playoff games such that there are:

(i) at least forty-eight (48) hours between the scheduled start of consecutive games played by a Team when such games are played in different locations,

(ii) at least thirty-six (36) hours between the scheduled start of two (2) consecutive games played by a Team when such games are played in the same location, and

(iii) at least forty-eight (48) hours between the scheduled start of the final game played by a Team in a playoff series and the scheduled start of the Team’s first game in the subsequent playoff series.