PHOENIX — NBA commissioner Adam Silver said earlier this week that the relationship between Cathy Engelbert and WNBA players was fractured because it became “too personal.”

Then Phoenix Mercury forward Satou Sabally made it abundantly clear exactly why that is.

“It is personal,” she said Tuesday after practice. “It is very personal because the WNBA wants to forbid us to make a lot of more money than we’re ever going to make here, what it seems like in other leagues.”

Silver chimed in earlier this week on the contentious CBA drama overshadowing the WNBA Finals, saying he’s confident a deal will be reached but acknowledged the relationship between Engelbert and players is in dire need of repair.

“It’s become too personal,” Silver said Monday, “and we’re going to have to work through th

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