WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert out after 2026 season ends

Big news coming out of the W Kathy Engelbert is out the WNBA's first ever commissioner announced this morning That she's retiring at the end of the season That's seven years after taking the job and after a stretch where a lot of people around the league would call Let's say Rocky to put it kindly I mean, let's be real about what this tenure really looked like the officiating complaints Well, those never got fixed the Fija Collier called her leadership negligent and said the WNBA had the worst Leadership in the world and even the credit for the three billion dollar meteorites deal Which generates a lot of money for the league a lot of that credit has gone to Adam Silver not her But if we're gonna give some credit where credit is due Player salaries did top a million dollars for the first time under her CBA With a real revenue sharing model tying player pay to lead growth and she got the lead through Kovat with the wobble keeping the season alive when let's be honest a lot of leagues couldn't do that the WNBA also expanded to more franchises under her than at any point in History as well, but the Engelbert era officially ends at the end of this season and although Controversial it is still somewhat productive now The real question is who's walking into this next and can they actually fix what she couldn't?