{"id":254686,"date":"2026-07-26T01:13:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/26\/wnba-making-long-overdue-change-to-officiating-process\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T01:13:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:13:31","slug":"wnba-making-long-overdue-change-to-officiating-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/26\/wnba-making-long-overdue-change-to-officiating-process\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA making long overdue change to officiating process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Nobody seems\u00a0happy with the state of officiating in the WNBA, and the league is finally taking a long-overdue step to address it.<\/p>\n<p>Just before the league&#8217;s All-Star game on Saturday night, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced that the league will be introducing a centralized replay center beginning with the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<h2>WNBA makes long overdue change to officiating process<\/h2>\n<p>Engelbert said the center will be done with the intention of improving efficiency and transparency with the league&#8217;s officiating and decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty much every other major professional sports league in North America has something like this, and it&#8217;s\u00a0long overdue for the WNBA to get in on that process.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/articles\/wnba_making_long_overdue_change_to_officiating_process\/s1_13132_44101762\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody seems\u00a0happy with the state of officiating in the WNBA, and the league is finally taking a long-overdue step to address it. Just before the league&#8217;s All-Star game on Saturday night, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced that the league will be introducing a centralized replay center beginning with the 2027 season. WNBA makes long overdue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-254686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}