SUN VALLEY, Idaho — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver isn’t giving up on the WNBA.
Critics have called the money-losing women’s basketball league a failure, but Silver said he’s “doubling down” on it — and pointed to the success of the US women’s soccer team as a reason.
“I was welling up watching the women’s World Cup soccer game,” Silver said, saying he was thinking of his young daughter and how star player Megan Rapinoe and her US teammates are inspirational to girls.
“I think she’s great,” Silver said of Rapinoe, acknowledging her controversial politics.
The pink-haired professional player said earlier this month she wouldn’t visit the White House if invited, calling the president’s “Make America Great Again” slogan “exclusionary.