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Previous comments of Wnba Commissioner Katie Engelbert about Superstar League and Indiana Fever Superstar Kaitlin Clark 'The potential of earnings during an interview with CNBC, on Friday.
Previous comments appeared after Engelbert denied According to the report of the Minnesota Linx Nafey Collier that Clark should be grateful that he earns $ 16 million on the court, because she will do nothing without the platform that Wnba gives her, ”according to Colliere.
While Engelbert denied that he made this statement during the press conference on Friday, her previous comments during an interview at the CNBC Changemakers summit in April 2024 repeated similar topics.
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Kaitlin Clark poses with Wnba Commissioner Katie Engelbert after she was chosen as a common choice No. 1 in the Indiana fever in the Wnba Draw 2024 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, New York, April 15, 2024. (Brad Penner/USA Today Sports)
“Caitlin has the ability to earn up to half a million dollars only on Wnba wages this year. Therefore, of course, they just look at the base that is collectively concluded. And, in fact, this is low, because she will get No. 1. She will do a little more than it, ”said Engelbert.
“She also has millions and millions of dollars [in] approval. Since she announced that she became a professional, her approval is higher in dollars. Now she has a global platform, not just the US platform. So, she is going to do just perfectly, like the best players in the league, as each league does. ”
Engelbert made comments just a few days after Clark was chosen with choice No. 1 in the Wnba Wnba 2024 Dun. The salary of the Wnba Clark base this year amounted to only 76,535 dollars.
Clark signed an eight -year deal for $ 28 million with Nike, which she signed in April 2024 before she played the game in Wnba. And she had previous transactions with Nike and other sponsors during a career in college in Aiova.
The commissar was faced with a huge reverse reaction from fans, media experts and Active players After Collier had charged that Engelbert said that Clark should be “grateful” and “would not do anything” without Wnba last week, that, according to Collier, he entered a private conversation.
The Koller also claimed that Engelbert told her: “The players should be on their knees, thanking their lucky ones for the deal with the rights on the media that I received them.”
Turning to the alleged comments about Clarke, Engelbert denied that he had done them.
“Obviously, I did not make these comments. Caitlin was a transformational player in this league. She was an excellent representative of the game. She invited tens of millions of new fans to the game, ”Engelbert said at a press conference on Friday.
Nevertheless, Engelbert clearly did not deny, making the alleged comments about the players who “should be on the knees.” Instead, the commissioner replied, claiming that many “inaccuracies” were registered in the media.
“There are a lot of inaccuracy in social networks and all this reports,” Engelbert said. “A lot of messages, a lot of individuality regarding what I say, that I have not said.”
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The Minnesota star Linx Naface Collier was frank about the recent comments of the Wnba Commissioner Katie Engelbert. (Trevor Ruszkowski/Imagen Images)
Engelbert later said: “I am disappointed. I am also a man. I have a family. I have two children who are devastated by these comments. Therefore, I say that it was obviously a difficult week, and I just think there is a lot of individuality. ”
Nevertheless, Engelbert admitted that if players do not feel “appreciated”, she has “better to do”.
“I was disappointed to hear that some players feel the league, and that I personally do not care about them and do not listen to them,” Engelbert said before the game 1 in the Wnba final on Friday evening.
“If players in“ W ”do not feel valuable and valuable from the league, we must achieve more success, and I have to achieve more.”
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The Wnba Union and its players, Wnbpa, is negotiating a new collective agreement.
The Association of Players and Wnba agreed on an eight -year agreement in 2020, but WNBPA voted recently to abandon the agreement at an early stage. The current agreement expires on October 31.
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