WNBA president Lisa Borders is glad her players are activists — she just wishes that activism would stay out of the arenas.
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After several teams and multiples players received fines for wearing all-black warm-ups for the Black Lives Matter movement, many expressed their anger that their freedom of speech right was being suppressed.
However, Borders said the black shirts were not in regulation, therefore the players and teams were breaking certain rules and needed to be fined.
"We were making every effort to engage our players," she told The Associated Press on Friday.