USA Today's Oscar Dixon covers the problems of overseas play, which won't be fixed until the W raises its pay scale (which the league may, or may not, be able to do).

"You don't know how much longer your knees are going to hold up," says DeLisha Milton-Jones. "Now that players have that fresh on their mind, they're really thinking, Do I want my summers off or do I want to take the winters off? What is more lucrative for me? And if you look at it from that standpoint, the scale kind of tips towards Europe."