There’s a lot of emotion and passion going on right now because we’re in collective bargaining, we’re in the WNBA finals, and so I’ll leave it there. I mean, I’m just obviously disheartened. You know, I’m a human too.

I have a family. I have two kids who are devastated by these comments, and so all I’ll say is just, you know, it’s obviously been a tough week, and I just think there’s a lot of inaccuracy out there. And I absolutely respect that piece of it.

Yeah, I certainly, that’s another inaccurate statement out there that everybody reads and takes clickbait on. Obviously, I’ve never been a quitter. I’m entering my 40th year, actually, this month in business.

Never been a quitter, never shied away from tough situations. I think leadership, the cream always rises to the top, and I’ve always been someone who believes in the fact that we have, if there’s things we need to fix, we’re going to fix them. If there are things the players have a perspective on that they don’t like that we’re doing or I’m doing, we’ll fix them, Malika.

So I think there’s a point in time when, obviously, there’s a lot of, and I said, emotion, passion, whatever you want to call it about what’s going on right now. The league has grown enormously over the last five years. It’s incredible what these players have done day in and day out, and they deserve all the credit.

But as I said, my staff and the staff of the teams and the owners in this league have made tons of investments to get to where we are today. And so I’m not going to shy away. I’m the commissioner of this league, the leader of this league.

I think we’ve accomplished a lot, but we have a lot more hard work to do. There’s so many more things we can do together, and I hope that the players see that. And I’m certainly looking forward to meeting with them in the offseason as we get to the next level, especially with so many great things that are going to happen in the offseason into next season.” shared Cathy Engelbert in a recent interview with ESPN.