It’s no secret there’s a little tension between WNBA commissioner Cathy Englebert and Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham.

Cunningham’s remarks about not wanting transgender athletes playing girls or women’s sports has put the WNBA — and Englebert — under the microscope lately.

Englebert issued a statement affirming the WNBA embraces “justice equity, diversity, and inclusion,” and that “hate, abuse, and demonization of any person or group of people, including transgender people, only fuel fear, division, and harm.”

But many believe Englebert is falling short on an issue that fans expect a clear — and appropriate — stance on.

Cunningham has also been outspoken about Englebert, who she recently said in an interview with USA Today has done some good things but doesn’t appear to be in line with what the players want the future of the league to look like.

“You do have to have a person in power who is bold, who is confident, who wants the best for the players and not maybe for themselves all the time,” Cunningham said. “So I do feel like, as a whole, that could be a position that’s maybe open at the end of the year, but that’s not my call.

“(Cathy Engelbert's) done a lot of good things, but with where our league is trying to go, I feel like you just want someone who also wants that. That's just a hard position to be in, in her shoes, us as players ― we always want more, more, more because we see how good it can be, but … that's up to Adam Silver at the end of the day.”

Engelbert being replaced as WNBA commissioner has been talked about before, but with the increased scrutiny she and the rest of the league are under, this is the first time it feels like there’s some real smoke regarding her potential departure.

The league has assembled a task force of team presidents and general managers to discuss the league’s policy on transgender participation.

Player eligibility as outlined in the WNBA’s collective bargaining agreement states that “only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.” It does not explicitly say a woman is someone who’s birth sex is female, though that level of clarification could make its way into the next CBA.