{"id":193146,"date":"2025-09-30T21:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/193146\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:09:12","slug":"caitlin-clark-mentioned-in-speech-criticizing-wnba-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/193146\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark Mentioned In Speech Criticizing WNBA Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"668\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/17592657126491.jpg\" alt=\"Las Vegas Aces v Indiana Fever - Game Three\" class=\"wp-image-745297\"  \/>Andy Lyons<\/p>\n<p>MINNEAPOLIS, MN.\u2013Napheesa Collier, Vice President of the WNBA\u2019s Player\u2019s Association Executive Committee, said Tuesday that WNBA Commissioner Cathy Englebert provides the \u201cworst leadership in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her speech, Collier mentioned the way Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark and others have been treated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked Cathy how she planned to fix the fact that Caitlin (Clark), Angel (Reese), and Paige (Bueckers), who are clearly driving massive revenue for the league are making so little for their first four years. Her response was, \u2018Caitlin should be grateful she makes $16 million off the court. Without the platform the WNBA gives her, she wouldn\u2019t make anything,\u201d said Collier.<\/p>\n<p>Collier said the WNBA is becoming too much about control and power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe (Englebert) also told me that the players should be on their knees thanking me for the media rights deal that I got them. That\u2019s the mentality driving our league from the top,\u201d said Collier.<\/p>\n<p>Collier said she tried to have productive conversations in private, but it was clear that \u201cthere is no intention of accepting that there is a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Collier said the biggest threat to the WNBA isn\u2019t money, ratings, or even missed calls or physical play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the lack of accountability from the league office,\u201d said Collier.<\/p>\n<p>Collier is a power forward for the Minnesota Lynx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Lyons MINNEAPOLIS, MN.\u2013Napheesa Collier, Vice President of the WNBA\u2019s Player\u2019s Association Executive Committee, said Tuesday that WNBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-193146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}