{"id":270545,"date":"2025-10-02T00:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/270545\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T00:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:37:10","slug":"the-wnba-needs-to-find-its-adam-silver-but-that-may-have-to-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/270545\/","title":{"rendered":"The WNBA needs to find its Adam Silver \u2014 but that may have to wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu once said she had more conversations with NBA commissioner Adam Silver than she had with her own league\u2019s commissioner Cathy Engelbert.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s part of the reason Ionescu said she was excited to be one of the 40 WNBA players who showed up in an Indianapolis hotel ballroom to meet with Engelbert and other league executives during All-Star weekend in July amid ongoing collective bargaining agreement negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important to have real conversations,\u201d Ionescu said then. \u201cI\u2019ve talked to Adam Silver about it a lot when I\u2019ve seen him and just knowing players feel comfortable and confident going up to him in the NBA and being able to talk about things like adults and things that are important.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think that needs to be the same for us as well. We need to be able to be in the room with Cathy and talking to her and her leadership group about what we want and how we can kind of meet in the middle to find what\u2019s important. Like I think that shows maturity, shows respect and also it\u2019s part of our league. We\u2019re all one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu once said she had more conversations with NBA commissioner Adam Silver than she had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":270546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[8952,1520,15534,62,2632,2225,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-270545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-adam-silver","9":"tag-new-york-liberty","10":"tag-sabrina-ionescu","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-columnists","13":"tag-sports-plus","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115301780433047100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}