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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 5347600, member: 7631"] This has been discussed in the thread on the general board. I think there's consensus that: a) the WNBA is embarrassed that the upstart league is able to pay the players way better than the 25-year-old WNBA; b) The W is concerned that Unrivaled may be taking investors away from the W. I'm with you, Engelbert and the WNBA brass should be thanking their lucky stars for Unrivaled (and maybe AU, which I know nothing about). The W has the rule that veterans can't show up more than a few games into the season due to overseas obligations. Unrivaled specifically doesn't overlap with the WNBA season and they pay well enough that players don't need to go overseas for the paycheck. And the season is short enough that they players get a month or so off at each end. So the best players don't sit out seasons, plus they arrive healthier. That's a win-win. But Engelbert doesn't understand that. And, totally unrelated to the above but directly related to the thread, she also doesn't understand Napheesa Collier. She's the granddaughter of a diplomat, whom she reveres. And her father raised her with a deep sense of what is right. For Engelbert to basically accuse Collier of lying -- nobody who knows anything about Collier would ever think that. [/QUOTE]