LAS VEGAS (KTNV) \u2014 While the Aces prepare for their third WNBA Finals appearance in four years, rising tensions have broken out across the league after Minnesota Lynx Forward Napheesa Collier spoke out against WNBPA Vice President Cathy Engelbert.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt Unrivaled this past February, I sat across from Cathy and asked how she planned to address the officiating issues in our league,\u201d Collier said. \u201cHer response was, ‘Well only the losers complain about the refs,’ I also asked how she planned to fix the fact that Caitlin, Angel and Paige who are clearly driving massive revenue for the league are making so little for their first four years, her response was Caitlin should be grateful she makes 16 million off the court because without the platform that the WNBA gives her, she would be making anything, in that same conversation she told me players should be on their knees thanking their lucky stars for the media rights deal that I got them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The nearly five-minute statement was supported by various players across the league, including A\u2019ja Wilson.<\/p>\n
After the Aces\u2019 107-98 overtime win over the Indiana Fever to advance to the WNBA Finals, the star center addressed the media before taking questions.<\/p>\n
\u201cHad an opportunity to listen to Phee and I was honestly disgusted by the comments that Cathy made,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cAt the same time, I am very appreciative that we have people like Phee in our players’ association representing us; we have to continue to stand on business as we talk about this Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiation.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Aces host the Phoenix Mercury in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals on Friday at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KTNV) \u2014 While the Aces prepare for their third WNBA Finals appearance in four years, rising…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[61316,7767,7768,61317,61318,61319,4677,7771,61320,61321,99,434],"class_list":["post-196165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-13-abc","tag-13-action-news","tag-abc-13","tag-basketball-in-las-vegas","tag-channel-13","tag-ktnv","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-las-vegas-news","tag-las-vegas-sports","tag-las-vegas-womens-basketball","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196165","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=196165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}