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WNBA Commissioner Would Consider Hosting a Game in Saudi Arabia

  • League held its third international game in Canada in May
  • Engelbert says Saudi Arabia wouldn’t be her first choice

Catherine Engelbert

Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said the women’s basketball league would consider hosting a game in Saudi Arabia if the opportunity arose.

“I think we would evaluate it across what our global games platform looks like,” Engelbert said in an interview at the Bloomberg Invest conference Wednesday. “It wouldn’t be the first place I went, for sure, but we had this opportunity in Canada, Europe, Asia and Africa.”