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Cathy Engelbert apologizes over Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese followers

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WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert walked again her feedback earlier this week, the place she failed to handle the abusive phrases and actions coming from Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese followers.

Engelbert not too long ago appeared on CNBC and was requested concerning the on-line discourse that has was racial and sexist abuse. The commissioner seemingly sidestepped the query, leaning into the “rivalry” between the 2 rookies and talking about how each gamers ought to “ignore” these followers.

The commissioner’s solutions — and subsequent follow-up tweet trying to make clear her feedback — didn’t sit effectively with Breanna Stewart and different gamers throughout the league. In line with Rachel Bachman of The Wall Road Journal, Engelbert apologized Friday in a letter to the gamers. Right here’s a part of what it stated:

“I used to be requested a query about WNBA rivalries and the darkish facet of social media and race, and easily put, my reply missed the mark, and I’m sorry.”

“I remorse that I didn’t categorical, in a transparent and definitive method, condemnation of the hateful speech that’s all too usually directed at WNBA gamers on social media. It is a teachable second and one which I embrace with humility. There may be completely no room for racism, misogyny, homophobia and different types of hate within the WNBA or wherever.”

“I do know a lot of you might have been coping with it for a very long time. I would like us as a league to do our half to alter the too usually poisonous and abusive nature of social media discourse.”

Per Jackie Powell of The Subsequent, Stewart appeared receptive to Engelbert’s apology and even spoke with the commissioner on the telephone.

It’s also value noting that Girls’s Nationwide Basketball Gamers Affiliation (WNBPA) president and Seattle Storm ahead Nneka Ogwumike chatted with Engelbert as effectively.

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