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Message: [QUOTE="azfan, post: 5343084, member: 7748"] This brouhaha may have profound consequences for the CBA negotiations. The commissioner position is one that requires realistic analysis. They work for the owners. They are presented as representing the league but they work in furtherance of the owners. As such a commissioner needs an extraordinarily rare and diverse set of skills in order to maintain the fiction that they are advancing the interests of the league while representing ownership interests. On one end of the spectrum is Roger Goodell who makes no bones about his work on behalf of the owners. Until this brouhaha I thought the WNBA commissioner had done a wonderful job of walking the fine line was on the other end of the spectrum.. I suppose she's learned from all this that you have to be very careful how you shine on the representatives of the Union. But that's too late. It's also odd because in the entire scheme of imposing improved standards and management of referees is a no-brainer. So the WNBA commissioner's failure on a layup would suggest that her days are numbered. The question is will a CBA be completed before she is invited to return to consulting? [/QUOTE]