WNBA management was placed on blast when Minnesota Lynx guard Napheesa Collier made a powerful assertion throughout her exit interview on Tuesday. She obtained quite a lot of assist, and one of many strongest responses got here from four-time WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson shortly after the Aces punched their ticket to the WNBA Finals.
Wilson had not commented a lot on Collier’s assertion earlier within the day as a result of she was getting ready to face the Indiana Fever within the deciding Sport 5. After Las Vegas pulled off the 107-98 win, Wilson mentioned she had extra time to take heed to Collier’s assertion and opened her postgame press convention along with her ideas on the state of affairs.
“I used to be actually disgusted by the feedback that Cathy made,” Wilson mentioned. “However on the similar time, I am very appreciative that we have now folks like Phee in our committee of gamers’ affiliation representing us, as a result of that is what we’re going to need to proceed to make the push to face on what we consider in. I am grateful to have these varieties of folks be capable to proceed to talk up for us.
“I’ll trip with Phee, all the time. Clearly she is a enterprise girly and she or he has her personal stuff occurring. However shifting ahead, we gotta proceed to face on enterprise as we speak about this CBA negotiation.”
Collier made a number of claims in her assertion, together with how Engelbert mentioned gamers like Caitlin Clark ought to be grateful as a result of “with out the platform the WNBA provides her, she would not make something.” In accordance with Collier, she additionally mentioned “gamers ought to be on their knees thanking their fortunate stars” for the media rights deal she acquired for league.
Lots of voices from across the league stood behind her, together with Fever coach Stephanie White, Seattle Storm’s Erica Wheeler and Chicago Sky’s Angel Reese, amongst others.
