{"id":370615,"date":"2025-11-11T03:03:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/370615\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T03:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:03:24","slug":"wnba-commissioner-cathy-engelberts-wnba-legacy-faces-test-amid-cba-standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/370615\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert&#8217;s WNBA legacy faces test amid CBA standoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert has \u201ctransformed women\u2019s basketball into a business juggernaut\u201d &#8212; but a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/15\/tension-continues-in-wnba-cba-talks-with-split-around-players-worth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/15\/tension-continues-in-wnba-cba-talks-with-split-around-players-worth\/\">standoff over how much players should share in the league\u2019s growth<\/a> could threaten her leadership, and her legacy,\u201d according to Williams, Haque &amp; Diallo of BLOOMBERG NEWS. Engelbert has been \u201cwidely credited with steering\u201d the league through the \u201ctumult of the Covid-19 pandemic and into a prosperous new era.\u201d Yet, having attained its \u201cgreatest financial and cultural success so far,\u201d the WNBA is \u201cfacing the prospect of the first labor lockout in its 29-year history.\u201d The players union is \u201choping to lock down between 30% and 40% of all revenue coming to the league.\u201d For some team owners, sharing more revenue \u201ccould bite.\u201d Those who have been in control of their franchises the longest have experienced \u201clean years that saw other teams fold\u201d &#8212; and are \u201ceager to recoup their losses.\u201d Engelbert also \u201crisks alienating the league\u2019s fanbase.\u201d Sources said that the \u201cexact mix of team and league revenue that would be shared with players in a new labor pact is still being negotiated.\u201d The sources added that the WNBA has \u201cproposed tripling player salaries while keeping in place an arrangement that opens up revenue sharing if certain growth targets are reached\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2025-11-07\/wnba-lockout-threat-puts-commissioner-cathy-engelbert-under-pressure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2025-11-07\/wnba-lockout-threat-puts-commissioner-cathy-engelbert-under-pressure\">BLOOMBERG NEWS, 11\/7<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert has \u201ctransformed women\u2019s basketball into a business juggernaut\u201d &#8212; but a \u201cstandoff over how&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":370616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232,1707],"class_list":{"0":"post-370615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wnba","13":"tag-womens-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115528846812530413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370615","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=370615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}