Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham believes the WNBA needs a new commissioner to support the league's growth.
"You do have to have a person in power who is bold, who is confident, who wants the best for the players and not maybe for themselves all the time," Cunningham told USA Today's Meghan L. Hall. "So I do feel like, as a whole, that could be a position that's maybe open at the end of the year, but that's not my call."
Engelbert took over as commissioner in July 2019. Her contract is set to expire at the end of the current season.
Over seven years under her leadership, the WNBA has surged in popularity and expanded to 15 teams, with more franchises on the way in the near future.
However, Engelbert's handling of the collective bargaining negotiations over the past year, along with other issues across the league, has soured her relationship with the players.
"(Engelbert's) done a lot of good things, but with where our league is trying to go, I feel like you just want someone who also wants that," Cunningham said. "That's just a hard position to be in, in her shoes, us as players - we always want more, more, more because we see how good it can be, but ... that's up to Adam Silver at the end of the day."
