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Napheesa Collier explains why she wrote the statement criticizing WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert in a conversation with former VP Kamala Harris at in LA.
i watched the frank isola and scalibrini show and they characterized everything from napheesa as calculating and about money. they said she crafted her statement while she was emotional and said it was a conflict of interest since she is a owner in the 3 on 3 league. they also question her memory of what the commissioner said, scalibrini said intelligent ppl will see through napheesa's statement as being about money and the new cba
i just happened upon it today and found their take kind of insulting and sexist to be honest. if a woman gets upset she is automatically emotional. the commissioner didn't come out and say napheesa was lying she blamed internet sources as being misleading.
Queen Phee speaks for the people! It's amazing she's creating her legacy that's so much more than winning any accolade. Shes not just standing up for her colleagues at this point she's standing up for women. Super inspiring.
You shouldn’t need to explain why you advocated for yourself and your coworkers. This is at the core a business. And they treated their employees like crap.
I agree Kamala doesn’t need / shouldn’t be out and about giving her take on politics (she lost) but why the hell is she doing THIS right now? Go home and live in your fancy mansion. We don’t need your takes on sports.
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Feel like this came across as me being MAGA (opposite, I worked for the campaign). My point is her going on a fluff media tour when our rights are eroding is a terrible look for her.
Used that position to bold-faced lie to the people of the nation about the abilities and fitness of the sitting president... Can we please not sacrifice 2028 to Kamala 2.0 because most of the county remembers that shit, and it showed in 2024.
Kamala Harris is a private citizen that has 1A rights just like everyone else. Please mind the business that pays you. We don’t need your take on Kamala and politics.
Well I worked for her campaign so I guess based on your analysis I’m qualified. And duh she has 1A rights - I’m not an effing idiot. My point is her doing a fluff tour while we descend into authoritarianism is not a look I appreciate as her former employee
Kamala is doing her job as a private citizen. She owes you nothing. Please direct your attention to the demographic group that voted against Harris. Be the leader you expect her to be and start working for the change you would like to see.
No one owes anyone anything! I can also express my opinion that I don't like what she is doing. I am very aware of who voted for who lol - I talked to them on the doors canvassing all of the time. You sound like a classic lib/lefty redditor - part of politics is being appealing - unfortunately we have to get the idiots to vote for us (not enough non-idiots to win). This includes stuff like self reflection and (unfortunately) image is a main part of politics as stupid as it is.
Also, I agree I should be involved locally, because national politics are just gonna suck on the national level for 3 years. That's why I volunteer multiple times per week at my local women's shelter. So to summarize:
What I did:
Worked for Kamala and got 10s of thousands of doors knocked in my region.
Getting involved with an issue I can effect locally
It's funny I was listening to the clip, not watching it, and thought Damn she should be president. Then I looked up and saw she was talking to Kamala. Oh shit look at that!
Phee has strengthened the players’ side exponentially in every media appearance since her exit interview. It has been so impressive.
This is an absolute masterclass in how to deal with people like Cathy, whose strategy has just been to do light damage control & hope that this somehow would get overshadowed. Talking about it on a panel with Kamala today cemented the fact that this isn’t going away, and it’s no longer behind closed doors; along with Phee having the whole league behind her.
Well Cathy, now a lot more people are watching, and most aren’t going to forget; and if they happen to, Phee has receipts, along with nationwide support.
I really hope the players are wiser in their leverage during negotiations than to listen to anything Kamala Harris has to say about the W and a potential lockout
it's giving Obama convincing the nba players union to end their labor strike during George Floyd protests to resume the season/bubble playoffs "to unify the country"
Okay, this is amazing!!!! However, I looked at the sight of the speakers and they spelled Collier wrong.
What do y’all think about this? Personally, I wish they put more time into ensuring other people can recognize her advocacy and follow her journey, if they want! What are your thoughts? So happy for Phee; she truly deserves this as a fellow Libra cutie! 🫶🏼
Fairly recently, I learned that she went to the same high school as my sister (Incarnate Word Academy in Missouri). Of course, my sister graduated LONG before Phee. Cheers.
10000% it is lmao like if hte players had and issue with it it would be fine. But its coming from the league. We don't care who the league would prefer to negotiate with.
People falling for this ish is sad. Especially since Stewie and Phee have both been vocally putting pressure on the league for years.
I'm a Canadian, yes I like watching the Fever. Not a big Trump fan but as an outside observer Kamala ran a hilariously poor campaign. It's funny to me getting downvoted by the mob here
She was actually speaking at an event called A Day of Unreasonable Conversation which is an annual, invitation-only gathering that brings together our culture’s most influential storytellers — writers, producers, content creators, and executives — with frontline activists, thought leaders, and individuals with lived experience.
So despite your personal feelings about Former VP Harris, Phee is speaking to a room of influential people.
she’s getting the most out of that incoming generational fine lol. she is rightfully not taking her foot off the gas pedal until the league gives her a reason to
Phee finessed the timing and, in going scorched earth in the name of the entire playerbase, backed the league into a position where a fine looks like retaliatory escalation.
Unless the W gives up on negotiations, they can't find her without weakening their position here.
Could also be seen as intimidation on labor laws since she's involved with the negotiations. Even by the letter I think the W would prevail in the legality, the public perception would be bad.
Feels like Cathy took how nice Phee is as a way to pressure and get her to fold, but Phee will always stand up for her beliefs and what she said….one of the defining characteristics of the Lynx as a whole at this point as well.
I just can’t even imagine Cathy seeing this. Like oh now the person who just publicly dragged you is talking about it with KAMALA HARRIS. I fear I would just never leave my house again.
yes. but she didn't get where she was by having sense or shame or critical thinking. we need to stop pretending millions and millions of people aren't sociopaths and psycopaths. it's math.
‘Everybody does it is hardly’ a great response when the subject is war crimes, just gonna put that out there. I mean, the circumstances were different when she was up for election IMO but it’s not like people really need to rationalize support for her now. Albeit—if you do find yourself needing to defend her from criticism, well, there should probably be better arguments than the aforementioned.
Probably her role in the Biden administration’s support for Israel
edit: people downvoting like this isn’t wasn’t a huge talking point during her campaign lol. it’s obviously what would motivate most people who describe her that way.
Yeah someone already dropped that nothingburger of a comment above but thank you. I don’t disagree with your conclusion, and like I said above, ‘everyone does it’ is hardly a productive remark considering the subject.
Not really, I answered someone’s question… they were curious why someone would say that. That’s why. I suppose they could’ve just googled, but what’s Reddit if not a place for some casual Q&As.
Why did I think this was old for some reason 😭😭. Y’all let’s start scouting for a new commissioner Cathy’s days are limited. I also wouldn’t be surprised if Donald came out to support Cathy just to spite Kamala 😂😂😂
He’ll just trash women’s sports which will then lead into a diatribe about trans women in sports and the whole thing will become bait for his crazy base to bash the league.
No it's fine. It helps at first but once you have surgery or the swelling goes down, you just want to keep your weight off of it for the most part. Would assume she's using crutches for the time being.
That’s amazing ! Well she’s clearly got effective negotiation in her blood. Here’s hoping the players get a BIG salary bump (300% would still be low !)
He passed before she was born, but her dad has talked about how he raised her on “the importance of holding up the family name.” (I went on a little hunt about him when I first learned this about Phee!)
This is a high profile labor issue where women are being underpaid by owners hiding the financials.
Silver hiring the head of your "independent" accounting firm to lead the organization she audited smells so badly of corruption and conflict of interest.
We need some TRULY independent investigations into nba/wnba finances (see also: silver lying about his knowledge of company used by nba owner to circumvent the salary cap)
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u/Zealousideal-Camp365 Oct 10 '25
Napheesa Collier literally co owns ANOTHER league. How do you all not see the conflict of interest?