Las Vegas (AP) – WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert generally highlights the successes of the league during her annual speech on the state of the league.
This year’s speech could be a little different. Engelbert will speak on Friday evening before the first game of the WNBA final for the first time since the star of Minnesota Lynx Napheesa Collier’s Evaluation of scholarship holders that the League has “the worst leadership of the world” with a commissioner who lacks responsibility.
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The series of championships for the best of seven between the Las Vegas Aces and Phoenix Mercury in many ways is the screen by the outstanding problems to which Engelbert and the League.
Engelbert is being negotiated for a new collective agreement that players Say not well. There is a deadline of October 31 to make the new CBA unless the two parties accept an extension.
The commissioner also deals with the potential sale Connecticut Sun, which would need the league approval to move anywhere.
There is also the season Official WNBA Criticism by players and coaches.
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Everything is not disturbing around the WNBA. The frequentation of the season was the highest in the history of the league. The notes were strong this year Even with Caitlin Clark With an injury for the second half of the season and the playoffs.
For all the faults that Collier cited in his comment prepared on Tuesday, Engelbert has held many of his promises since his arrival in the League in 2019.
It will have added six expansion teams by 2030 and has obtained a major media rights contract for the next decade which will bring more than $ 2.2 billion. Engelbert has also had the league salary for a full charter flight program this season that players hope will be added to the new CBA to respond to concerns about problems ranging from safety to travel time.
The commissioner has always declared that the League hoped for a transformation agreement which includes a considerable increase in wages and benefits of players.
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