WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert made an appearance at the Bloomberg Invest conference on Wednesday and said that the league would consider hosting a game in Saudi Arabia, but that location would not be her first choice for another international event.
“I think we would evaluate it across what our global games platform looks like,” Engelbert said. “It wouldn’t be the first place I went, for sure, but we had this opportunity in Canada, Europe, Asia and Africa.”
Engelbert’s comments came in regard to the shocking news out of the golf world earlier this week that the PGA Tour will merge with the Saudi-backed LIV golf. There has also been some surprise movement in the soccer landscape recently, with the Saudi Pro League signing a number of aging stars, including Karim Benzema and N’Golo Kante to staggering contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
The WNBA also recently went international with their product when the Minnesota Lynx took on the Chicago Sky…
