{"id":766043,"date":"2026-05-01T13:49:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/766043\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:49:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:49:27","slug":"liberty-respond-to-cathy-engelbert-emotional-jab-on-wnba-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/766043\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty respond to Cathy Engelbert &#8217;emotional&#8217; jab on WNBA housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert said she was surprised at how \u201cemotional\u201d an issue team-provided housing was for WNBA players during collective bargaining agreement negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>But some Liberty players suggested Engelbert\u2019s comment was short-sighted and the issue of team housing is not inconsequential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there are little things that maybe the average person doesn\u2019t think about where, like, you have to get furniture,\u201d said guard Rebekah Gardner, who signed a one-year minimum contract worth $277,500 with the Liberty. \u201cThere\u2019s just so many little things. And when we were playing basketball, that\u2019s just extra stuff we would have to focus on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Forward Rebecca Allen was a staunch supporter of securing team housing, especially as a player with an Australian passport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this month, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert said she was surprised at how \u201cemotional\u201d an issue team-provided housing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":766044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[50914,2338,1520,2229,62,2225,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-766043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-inside-the-liberty","9":"tag-jonquel-jones","10":"tag-new-york-liberty","11":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","12":"tag-sports","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\/116499642491374575","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766043","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=766043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}