WNBA Faces Leadership Challenges Amid Growth and Controversy

So the WNBA never stops giving when it comes to content. I've never seen anything like this. You talk about incompetence. When it comes to running that league, and Kathy Engelbert, the commissioner of that league just will not get it right. So this week, there was a tweet that was put up, and we have to show you this tweet. Two players in the WNBA were talking about betting on a game. And here's this tweet that went viral. And by the way, this was on the WNBA Twitter page. Roll it, guys. At All-Star Weekend, you and Engel made a bet with each other on this game. Is that right? This is how the rich stay rich. You gotta save this money. I'm gonna see you next week on Wednesday. Yeah. At night? No, at practice. Oh, at practice? I mean, I know y'all gonna lose, but if y'all lose, if y'all win, you get it for a hundred. No, you owe me for a hundred. Okay, so two players were talking about betting on a game prior to playing the game. Could you imagine that in both college? We just went through Brandon Soresby, and then we just went through the issues that are going on in the National Football League, and the WNBA actually promoted that and put it on their website. When are we going to see a change at the top? Look, the WNBA is in a really good place right now. I've said this before to you guys. 28 years, that league lost a ton of money and was going nowhere. Now, you have an opportunity to make a boatload of money, the league is getting massive exposure, and you're seeing great promotion when it comes to the players with great identities. Look at Sophie Cunningham. Sophie Cunningham is not one of the top 20 players in that sport, but yet she's becoming a cult figure. The league is actually gaining steam and being covered like a mainstream sport. When are they going to get the leadership that they need at the top? You're talking about gambling between players, and they actually, like I said, put that video on their Twitter page and thought that that was a good idea. The commissioner of the league, again, is a buffoon. She just absolutely doesn't understand what she has here with a moneymaker now that the NBA is looking even down into when you're talking with Adam Silver now getting involved. WNBA players are making more money, they're traveling first class, they're getting an opportunity to play in all these great arenas, and now you've got to start acting like a mainstream sport. You're no longer just an off sport. You are now being covered like a major sport. I don't really think they were prepared for this. You know how sometimes you're a young athlete and you get drafted? I show this to people all the time and tell people this all the time. When I went into the National Football League and I got my signing bonus with the Buccaneers, I had more money than I had ever had in my entire life at the time. I had no idea what I was getting into. I had no idea, I wasn't prepared going into that with the kind of money and the kind of fame that you go into when you go into a league. You're not prepared for that. It looks to me like WNBA is not prepared for the big time. They have not really done a great job at answering any questions when it comes to the athletes, when it comes to the storylines we saw with the owner in Seattle going after fans in the stands. I mean, guys, you're now in a position where this league is now being covered like the NBA. Act like it. You're professionals. You've gotta know where you are when it comes to gambling. When you're an athlete, gambling right now, folks, is a taboo when it comes to these commissioners. They don't want it being seen that the game again has got any kind of issues when it comes to gambling. We saw that in college football. And now you're putting that out there and you're tweeting that out. Look, they got a long way to go before they're gonna be really recognized on doing the right thing and making that league really where people think it should be. It's in a great place financially for the first time in nearly 30 years. And now they've got a shot. These folks need to get their you know what together and get their opportunity to promote that league and go forward with it and understand that they're in a position now where they can make themselves a lot of money and make the other players in the game a lot of money. Stuff like that, you thought that was a good idea? Like where? My God.