Aliyah Boston, Fever Reportedly Agree to Historic WNBA Contract, Full Details Revealed

The Indiana Fever are reportedly making Aliyah Boston the highest-paid player in WNBA history thus far.

The Fever are signing Boston to a four-year, $6.3 million extension, her agent Zack Miller of WME Basketball told ESPN's Shams Charania, Alexa Philippou and Kendra Andrews.

The contract will be worth $1 million next season and take up 20 percent of the Fever's cap from 2027 to 2029.

Boston is heading into her fourth season with the Fever after playing a key role in her team's run to the WNBA semifinals in 2025.

Boston averaged 15 points, 8.2 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.2 steals through 44 regular-season starts before contributing 12.5 points and 11.4 rebounds through eight playoff games.

The Fever were overall more successful on both offense and defense when Boston was in the frontcourt. Indiana marked a net rating of plus-7.3 with Boston on the court and minus-4.0 when she was on the sideline, per WNBA Stats.

Boston's extension was made possible by a provision in the new collective bargaining agreement agreed to by the WNBA and the players' association this offseason known as the EPIC (Exceptional Performance on Initial Contract) clause, according to Philippou.

According to Philippou, the EPIC provision allows players to replace the fourth year of their rookie contract with the start of a three-year contract extension.

Players can earn the max in what was previously the fourth year of the rookie deal if they were named to an All-WNBA team, per Philippou.

Boston was named to the All-WNBA second team last season, but she took slightly less 2026 salary than the $1.19 million max "to help the Fever pay others on their roster," according to ESPN.

All-WNBA first team member Caitlin Clark would be eligible to earn a projected max of $1.7 million in 2027 should the Fever extend her alongside Boston, Philippou noted.

The Fever have already re-signed the third member of their core in Kelsey Mitchell, a former free agent who is rejoining the team in 2026 on a one-year, $1.4 million supermax deal.

Indiana will now hope those three stars can help lead the team on another playoff run after the shorthanded Fever made a surprising postseason push into the 2025 second round despite missing key injured players, including Clark and Sophie Cunningham.

The Fever are set to open the regular season on Saturday, May 9 with a 1 p.m. ET home game against Paige Bueckers, Azzi Fudd and the Dallas Wings.