The WNBA is the league of ‘contract divorces’
by Carron J. Phillips from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#61ZPN)
The thing about marriage that most people don't realize, or forget, is that it's a binding legal document - thus making it a contract. But, despite how divorce is the breaking of a contract, and union, the thought of putting the two terms together has generally been a foreign concept - until the WNBA started doing it.