{"id":216431,"date":"2025-10-16T04:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/216431\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T04:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:05:15","slug":"candace-parkers-3-word-take-on-cathy-engelbert-wnba-finals-boo-brouhaha-says-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/216431\/","title":{"rendered":"Candace Parker’s 3-Word Take on Cathy Engelbert WNBA Finals Boo Brouhaha Says It All"},"content":{"rendered":"

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert is public enemy No. 1 right now within the women’s basketball community. While this has been the case for quite a while in the eyes of many, vitriol towards Engelbert has reached new heights in the wake of Napheesa Collier’s scathing claims<\/a> about her during a September 30 exit interview. <\/p>\n

While Engelbert responded<\/a> to what Collier claimed she had said before the 2025 WNBA Finals tipped off earlier this month, this hasn’t done anything to help fix her reputation among WNBA fans. And this was made apparent when Engelbert was emphatically booed by fans when she came on to the court to present the Las Vegas Aces with their WNBA championship trophy on October 10.<\/p>\n

CATHY ENGELBERT GETTING BOOD LMAOOOOOO pic.twitter.com\/Ddr4poB2Fa<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Shabazz \ud83d\udcab (@ShowCaseShabazz) October 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

When asked about Engelbert getting booed during her postgame press conference, Las Vegas Aces star guard Chelsea Gray said, \u201cWhen you have great players. You need to treat them like that. And that’s top to bottom.<\/p>\n

“There has been a lot of eyes on this league, and everybody\u2019s been stepping up to the plate and putting on performances that\u2019s legendary. We have legends that you guys get to witness every day. When we have a league full of people like that, it needs to be treated as such,” she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t play in our faces<\/a>,\u201d reigning WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson (who said she was “disgusted” <\/a>about Engelbert’s comments to Collier) then added after Gray.<\/p>\n

\"A'ja<\/p>\n

A’ja Wilson (22, Las Vegas Aces) warms up before a May 13, 2022 WNBA game. | IMAGO \/ Sports Press Photo<\/p>\n

Candace Parker Sends Clear Message About Cathy Engelbert Getting Booed by WNBA Fans<\/p>\n

WNBA legend Candace Parker (who was teammates with Gray and Wilson on the Aces in 2023) is one of the most respected people in the basketball community, and many take her words as gospel. And Parker got brutally honest about Engelbert getting booed in this way during an October 15 episode of her Post Moves podcast alongside Indiana Fever star Aliyah Boston. <\/p>\n

“That was crazy,” Parker said about Engelbert getting booed, per an X post from the show. <\/p>\n

When Boston asked Parker whether she saw how social media was posting clips and screenshots of Aces players reacting to the boos, Parker added, “She was talking at the beginning to give the championship trophy, people booed. Then there was a pause, and then she gets to come back up there and give the… Finals MVP to A’ja. They booed the entire time.<\/p>\n

“It was wild,” Parker continued. <\/p>\n

Candace Parker & Aliyah Boston react to Cathy Engelbert being booed at the WNBA Finals \ud83e\udd74 pic.twitter.com\/CIloAf3eb4<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Post Moves with Candace Parker & Aliyah Boston (@PostMovesShow) October 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

It doesn’t sound like Parker (who has criticized Engelbert recently) felt all that bad for the commissioner in that moment.<\/p>\n

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