Lynx's Napheesa Collier blasts WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert: 'We have the worst leadership in the world'

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The Minnesota Lynx spent the entire 2025 WNBA regular season as the league's most dominant team, but suffered a shocking semifinals loss to the Phoenix Mercury to end their bid for another championship earlier than expected.

That series ended with star forward Napheesa Collier injured and in a walking boot after suffering an ankle injury late in Game 4 on a controversial no-call that sent Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve into a tirade on the sidelines. On Tuesday, Collier met with the media for her post-season exit interview and opened with a lengthy, four-minute statement in which she went scorched earth on WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert over a number of issues from CBA negotiations to officiating problems.

In the statement, which you can read in full below, Coller said the WNBA has "the worst leadership in the world." She also brought out receipts from a conversation she had with Engelbert in February, in which the commissioner told her that Caitlin Clark "should be grateful" to the WNBA for her endorsement deals and that players should be "on their knees" thanking her for the new media rights deal.

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