WNBA commissioner makes her feelings perfectly clear on Caitlin Clark after pay stunt

Daily Mirror ^ | 03 Aug 2025 | Oscar Maung-Haley

[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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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: basketball; morecaitlinnews; sextoys; sports; wnba

[dfwgator]

They won’t go bankrupt unless the NBA goes bankrupt.

[MinorityRepublican]

WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert. Cathy, if you ain’t smart enough to know that Caitlin Clark IS your league, then I figure two things are going to happen: One, your league is going to go bankrupt and two, you won’t have a job.

Costs are up due to the CC effect. Which is fine because CC is selling out arenas.

Then CC will retire. So fans will stop watching.

But the players are making more $$$ and they're taking charter flights.

The revenue will no longer be there.

[HereInTheHeartland]

They will get paid with endorsements if they are worth it to a company

[Preachin']

Make me a sandwich..

[MinorityRepublican]

get rid of the tranny.

70% of the league?

[armourenthusiast]

Dont forget dildo justice!

[newfreep]

[DAC21]

“They won’t go bankrupt unless the NBA goes bankrupt:

The NBA owners are not amused at the year after year of WNBA financial loses. (Which means their loses) If they have balls to say enough is enough is doubtful.

[RightWingNut]

I was thinking SNAP-ON TOOLS !!!!!

[Glad2bnuts]

Mainly, Angel Reese. He is a Father, and has had no surgery. The quality of the game would be better if they had some real male talent, with boobs added. If they paid better, men would be dressing like women and “killing it”.