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Cathay Engelbert would consider playing a WNBA game in Saudi Arabia, she said at the Bloomberg Invest conference on Wednesday.
While the country wouldn’t be her first choice for another international event following the success of the WNBA’s preseason Toronto game, she also wanted to keep the league’s options open.
“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.”
Her comments come after the PGA Tour and Saudi-backed LIV golf announced their surprising merger earlier this week. Additionally, movement in the soccer world has come as the Saudi Pro League has signed a number of stars, including Karim Benzema and N’Golo Kante.
Lionel Messi reportedly turned down $1.6 billion from the Saudi league to join MLS’ Inter Miami.
The WNBA has played outside of the United States just three times, most recently in Toronto and also in…
