Cathy Engelbert

NBA commissioner Adam Silver arriving to the 2024 WNBA all-star game, walking left to right in the foreground. In the background there is an orange wall featuring the WNBA all-star logo and a block letter "W".

As WNBA labor talks march on, NBA commissioner sparks latest spat

By Jacob Mox / October 24, 2025

NBA commissioner Adam Silver’s comments on the Today Show kicked off a fresh public back-and-forth.

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The Portland Fire have their coach — now the waiting begins

By Annie Peterson / October 17, 2025

Černivec: ‘Alex [Sarama] represents the next generation of coaching’

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert gestures with her hands as she addresses reporters before Game 1 of the WNBA Finals. The photo is the backdrop for a graphic, which also includes the text "Takeaways from Cathy Engelbert & Finals Game 1" overlaid at the bottom in all caps and the black-and-white The IX Basketball logo in the top right corner.

Live from the WNBA Finals: How the bench helped the Las Vegas Aces take Game 1

By The IX Basketball / October 4, 2025

Plus, inside Commissioner Cathy Engelbert’s pregame press conference

Napheesa Collier, in the foreground in her black and green jersey, yells in celebration in front of the basket

Napheesa Collier calls out Cathy Engelbert, WNBA leadership

By Sydney Wingfield / September 30, 2025

Collier: ‘The league believes it succeeds despite its players, not because of them’

Courtney Williams with pink hair jumps with her arms extended into teammate Napheesa Collier, both in their white Lynx uniforms

The Lynx vibes are strong on Team Collier

By Terry Horstman / July 18, 2025

Three Minnesota players featured on WNBA All-Star Team Collier, led by Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve

On a bill baord, Caitlin Clark and A'ja Wilson fce each other with the words "Let her cook" and Gatorade logo inbetween them

Locked On Women’s Basketball: Status of WNBA CBA negotiations

By The IX Basketball / July 8, 2025

Megdal: ‘There’s a lot more money there everywhere you look,’

Podcast promotion graphic with a photo of WNBA executives. There is a text overlay that reads "Inside WNBA expansion." There is also a Locked On Women's Basketball logo and smaller photo of host Howard Megdal.

Locked On Women’s Basketball: Inside WNBA expansion

By The IX Basketball / June 30, 2025

In an emergency podcast, host Howard Megdal breaks down the expansion to Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia

The WNBA logo is seen on the court at Mohegan Sun Arena on Sept. 25, 2024 ahead of a WNBA playoff matchup between the Indiana Fever and the Connecticut Sun.

The WNBA’s bubble season reverberates five years later

By Michelle Smith / June 15, 2025

It can be argued that what we are all experiencing now in the WNBA, the national exposure, the television ratings, the sponsors, the Caitlin Clark phenomenon, the expansion of the league in Golden State and the preparation for a game-changing collective bargaining agreement – none of it happens if the league can’t pull off a season in isolation in Florida in 2020.

The New York Liberty's championship banner rises while the torch flames up.

After emotional ring ceremony, the Liberty flip the switch to defeat rival Aces

By Jackie Powell / May 18, 2025

Inside the Liberty lifting their first championship banner

Locked on Women’s Basketball: Live from the 2025 WNBA Draft: Winners, losers, sights, sounds and Cathy Engelbert

By The IX Basketball / April 15, 2025

In today’s episode of Locked on Women’s Basketball, host Jackie Powell is joined by The Next’s Emily Adler and the two discuss the winners and losers of the 2025 WNBA Draft. Hint: The California teams did very well, by Adler’s standards. “(The Valkyries first two picks have) pretty solid upside from both of them, adding…