It’s been anything but smooth for Cathy Engelbert and the league office this past week. The storm started when Napheesa Collier relayed a conversation she had with the WNBA commissioner during her exit interview in Minneapolis. “Worst leadership in the world.” That’s how she described the W and their officials. Now, with the October 31st deadline for a new CBA creeping closer and no agreement in sight, the league finds itself staring at the possibility of a lockout. And of course, in any conversation about the future of the league, Caitlin Clark’s name was always bound to come up.
During her exit interview, Napheesa Collier shared a piece of her conversation with Cathy Engelbert, and it wasn’t pretty. “I also asked [Engelbert] how she planned to fix the fact that players like Caitlin [