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Former Vice President Kamala Harris hosted WNBA star Napheesa Collier at the activist meeting, “A day of unreasonable conversation,” this week, where the player recently related to an explosive conversation with WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert.
Collier recently claimed that Engelbert said in a private conversation, “[Caitlin Clark] Should be grateful that she earns $ 16 million from the field, because without the platform WNBA gives her, she would not do anything, “and that” players should be on their knees and thank their lucky stars for the Media Law Agreement as I got them. ”
In his conversation with Harris, Collier defended his decision to publish the statements as the WNBA player’s union is currently negotiating with the league about a new collective negotiation agreement.
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“Regardless of the consequences, I felt it was something to be done,” Collier said.
“I’m in the Union for our CBA negotiations, just like our collective negotiation negotiations for our league, and for so long I felt I was seeing what was going on behind closed doors,” she added. “As long as we tried to have these conversations and move the needle at the meetings we would have with the league within our leadership. And I saw nothing changed. Trainer, won and lost alike, complaining of the same things over and over, players over and over again, and we did not see a change that our leadership was trying to make.
“I think I just came to the point where I was tired of
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Team Collier -Tip Napheesa Collier (24) looks at before 2025 WNBA All Star Game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on July 19, 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Trevor Ruszkowski/Imag images)
Said Engelbert At a press conference last week where she did not make the comments about Clark.
“Obviously, I did not make these comments. Caitlin has been a transformation player in this league. She has been a great representative of the game. She has brought tens of thousands of millions new fans to the game,” Engelbert said.
Engelbert approached the alleged comments about the other players and claimed that there have been a lot of “inaccuracies” reported in the media, but she did not explicitly denied these comments that she did with the alleged Clark comments.
Caitlin Clark poses with WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert, after she is selected as the No. 1 total election of Indiana Fever in 2024 WNBA Draft at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, New York, April 15, 2024. (Brad Penner/USA Today Sports)
“There’s a lot of Innacuracy out there through social media and all this reporting,” Engelbert said. “A lot of reporting, a lot of innacuracy about what I say what I didn’t say.”
Engelbert said later, “I’m discouraged. I’m also a human being. I have a family. I have two kids ruined by these comments. So all I say is that it’s obviously been a tough week and I just think there’s a lot of innovation out there.”
Still acknowledged Engelbert that if the players do not feel “appreciated”, she should do better.
“I was discouraged at hearing that some players feel the league and that I personally am not interested in them or listen to them,” Engelbert said before Game 1 in the WNBA final on Friday night.
“If the players in ‘W’ do not feel appreciated and value of the league, we need to do better and I have to do better.”
WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert speaks during a news conference before WNBA All-Star Basketball Game, Saturday 19 July 2025, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Players’ Association and WNBA accepted an eight -year deal in 2020, but WNBPA voted last year to opt out of the agreement early. The current agreement expires October 31
