The WNBA and the players’ union are unlikely to reach a new collective bargaining agreement by Friday’s deadline.

Erin Drake, legal counsel for the Women’s National Basketball Players Association, said it’s “not going to happen.”

The two sides will continue to meet this week but are said to remain far apart on the central issue of revenue sharing.

“We have worked hard to be able to say on Friday, ‘We did it.’ Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen,” Drake told The Athletic on Tuesday. “In a dance, it takes two to tango. And it has been difficult to find a beat, to find a rhythm and to find the same sense of urgency (from the league), just to be frank, to get this done.”

The league did not immediately respond to The Athletic’s request for comment on Drake’s characterization of the ne

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