The powerful and continuous growth of women's sport is a movement. Among the thriving professional sports leagues is the WNBA, which presents as successful with its extraordinarily famous players , colourful personalities, expansion teams , sold-out stadiums, and high merchandise sales.

But the W (as it is known by fans) is far from perfect. The championship final of the WNBA playoffs is being overshadowed by drama off the court and a less-than-perfect league management.

Those imperfections made themselves visible when Minnesota's Lynx star Napheesa Collier laid into WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert during a post-game interview on Sept. 30. The Lynx had just lost an emotionally charged Game 4 to the Phoenix Mercury which eliminated them from the semifinals. Collier sustained two

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