NEW YORK — Women’s National Basketball Players Association leaders are set to meet with league leadership, including commissioner Cathy Engelbert, to discuss online harassment players have been increasingly subject to in recent weeks. The meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, will include the WNBPA’s executive committee as well as the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee. “It’s literally a temperature check of everything from the first half of the season,” said New York Liberty forward
NEW YORK — WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert said the online vitriol players face is “unacceptable” as she spoke at an event on Thursday evening. As a panelist at the CNBC X Boardroom Game Plan Summit alongside three-time WNBA champion Diana Taurasi and Kristyn Cook, executive vice president and chief agency of sales and marketing at State Farm, Engelbert was asked how the league can grow the game while limiting toxicity. She said the conversations around the WNBA are like a “microcosm in a broa
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