It’s not often the eyes of the sports world are fixated on the WNBA in the way they were Friday with eager anticipation for how commissioner Cathy Engelbert would answer the most anticipated question of her pre-finals news conference in Las Vegas.

She had several days to think about the moment and exactly what she would say about Minnesota star Napheesa Collier’s eloquent yet calculated and vicious takedown of her leadership, which included accusations of dismissive comments about the league’s young superstars and the league’s players needing to be more grateful to Engelbert.

Engelbert was essentially faced with the very difficult choice of admitting a terrible mistake in what she thought was a private conversation and pleading for forgiveness or calling one of the league’s most respecte

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