{"id":864645,"date":"2026-08-20T05:56:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864645\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T05:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:56:41","slug":"outspoken-fever-guard-sophie-cunningham-says-wnba-needs-bold-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864645\/","title":{"rendered":"Outspoken Fever guard Sophie Cunningham says WNBA needs bold commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outspoken Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said the WNBA needs a commissioner who is bold and confident and not focused on themselves during an exclusive interview with USA Today that was published Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham said the vision of WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert doesn\u2019t mesh with moving the league forward.<\/p>\n<p>Engelbert\u2019s contract expires after the 2026 season. This is her seventh campaign at the helm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outspoken Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said the WNBA needs a commissioner who is bold and confident and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,11628,8359,10879,82,26256,630],"class_list":["post-864645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cathy-engelbert","tag-lgbtq","tag-sophie-cunningham","tag-sports","tag-transgender","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864645","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=864645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}