{"id":774805,"date":"2026-07-02T05:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774805\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T05:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:17:10","slug":"theres-one-thing-cathy-engelbert-must-do-with-wnba-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774805\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s one thing Cathy Engelbert must do with WNBA players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans showered WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert with disapproval as she presented the Liberty with the Commissioner\u2019s Cup trophy after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/30\/sports\/sabrina-ionescu-liberty-hold-off-aces-to-win-wnba-commissioners-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tuesday\u2019s 93-85 win against the Las Vegas Aces<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The chorus of boos hurled from every corner of Barclays Center was deafening and relentless. There was no mistaking Engelbert was the target of the fans\u2019 disdain. The jeers started when she grabbed the microphone and didn\u2019t let up until she handed it off.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second time in eight months Engelbert has been booed so spectacularly.<\/p>\n<p>Even after helping secure a historic collective bargaining agreement earlier this year, Engelbert, the WNBA\u2019s first commissioner, can\u2019t catch a break.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans showered WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert with disapproval as she presented the Liberty with the Commissioner\u2019s Cup trophy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,735,48,3457,82,2091,2089,630,105474],"class_list":["post-774805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-free-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}