March 18 (UPI) -- The WNBA and Women's National Basketball Players Association reached a verbal agreement on terms of a collective bargaining agreement, the league confirmed Wednesday. WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert informed reporters of the agreement inside the lobby of The Langham Hotel in New York. Engelbert, WNBPA executive director Terri Carmichael Jackson and executive committee members Nneka Ogwumike, Breanna Stewart, Alysha Clark and Brianna Turner had started negotiation sessions