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Posted on 08/06/2025 12:41:14 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
There's no doubt about it; WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert could have done without the talk following the All-Star game being about player pay.
The 2025 WNBA All-Star game, which Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark missed due to injury, saw the players competing in the annual event wear black t-shirts beforehand that read: "Pay Us What You Owe Us." The WNBA commissioner was booed at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indiana, with talks currently taking place over a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA).
Since the All-Star game incident, the conversation has picked up pace. Chicago Sky star Angel Reese slammed the WNBA's meeting between the players and league, calling it "disrespectful", while Hillary Clinton has also backed the players in their pay dispute.
But despite the backlash she has received, Engelbert is in no mood to alienate Clark or any of her fellow stars. The WNBA commissioner has called the sophomore sensation, who was named the WNBA's Rookie of the Year for 2024, "a great player and a great person."
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Engelbert said: "Caitlin's such a great player and a great person. We're so thrilled to have her, and she's been such a great representative of the league."
Clark would likely have always been on the pathway to stardom in the WNBA following her stellar collegiate career with Iowa. However, since she turned professional, her popularity has reached an entirely new stratosphere.
While the league boasts the talents of A'ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier to name just a few, none of them have reached the levels of popularity Clark has.
However, for the WNBA to be a strong league, Engelbert believes it has to be built up by a competitive product, and not one that is coalesces around a single player like Clark -
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Owe?
The league loses money. The players would have to be volunteers.
If they didn’t eject fans from the game for making fun of a player when her wig was snatched off of her head, they may have more money to pay players.
“While the league boasts the talents of A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier to name just a few, none of them have reached the levels of popularity Clark has.”
Because her name is easier to pronounce.
Name recognition.
Something’s not jiving: players’ salaries account for just 9% of costs for the league. Someone needs to audit those books.
If they paid you what you’re worth, you’d be paying them.
Aside from the issue at hand, I have to wonder if Hillary Clinton could actually pick a basketball out of a lineup of 5 different sports balls.
First Clark’s meteoric popularity rise, now Sydney Sweeney ads going viral - things are spiraling out of control.
If you want to be paid what you’re worth, play in the NBA.
The players should pay the league to play.
The league will still lose money.
Other than their current promotions for green dildos, what advertisers could they bring in? Trucker hats? Same-sex Divorce Lawyers? Bud Light?
“”Pay Us What You Owe Us.””
Take away the NBA support and you would be playing in Latvia!
Does Dunk'n still make Munchkins?
C’mon man! Hitlary just likes athletic women, like a lot😂🤣
Give them two choices - 1) Take what they for some reason got signed for, or 2) Divide up the gate receipts and actual tv revenue w/out any NBA money and take that. I think they’d take for former.
Does anyone care about the WNBA other than lesbians?
In the article it calls Clark a sophomore??
Sophomore year (her 2nd year in the WNBA).
Sophie Cunningham and her Hot Girls Eat Arbys made her a WNBA sensation. Another blue eyed blonde.
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