The WNBA finals start Friday, but it's not the matchup between the Las Vegas Aces and Phoenix Mercury that has basketball fans talking.
It's the matchup between Minnesota Lynx's five-times All-Star Napheesa Collier and WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert after Collier ripped into the WNBA's leadership in a post-season media conference Tuesday.
Collier, a vice president with the WNBA players' union and co-founder of off-season 3x3 basketball league Unrivaled, accused the WNBA of a "tone-deaf, dismissive" approach to players. In her four-minute speech, Collier blasted Engelbert for being "negligent" in her governance.
"We have the best players in the world. We have the best fans in the world. But right now we have the worst leadership in the world," Collier said Tuesday.
"[Officiating] has now reached levels of inconsistency that plague our sport and undermine the integrity in which it operates," Collier told reporters.
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