With Enes Kanter and Royce White announcing their intent to declare for the 2026 WNBA Draft, the discourse surrounding transgender athletes and their eligibility to play in the WNBA has reached the national scale. “Nobody needs a commissioner more than the WNBA right now. “Nobody needs a commissioner more than the WNBA right now. “I've never seen a league more determined to not push fun stars and fun storylines and fun people,” Simmons added. While society hasn't yet evolved past the point of misogyny, the WNBA hasn't truly helped distance itself from that kind of discourse — furthering Simmons' point.