NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Tuesday that WNBA players will get a "big increase" in salaries in their new collective bargaining agreement, but pointed to "absolute numbers" as the way to measure that growth as opposed to share of revenue.

"I think share isn't the right way to look at it because there's so much more revenue in the NBA," Silver said on the "Today Show." "I think you should look at absolute numbers in terms of what they are making. They are going to get a big increase in this cycle of collective bargaining and they deserve it."

The WNBPA opted out of the current collective bargaining agreement a year ago this week and has since been negotiating a new one with the current deal set to expire in less than two weeks on Oct. 31.

On an Instagram story, the WNBPA reposted a

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