On the NBA side, Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown made an appearance pregame during the Sun’s block party on Canal St. During the game, he sat courtside along with Celtics teammate Georges Niang and a pair of Boston Bruins and Boston Red Sox players.

Players across the WNBA have called out commissioner Cathy Engelbert over flat salaries, and it likely won't stop any time soon.

Each year, Engelbert usually calls WNBA players to tell them they were named an All-Star. That wasn't the case for Citron, who found out she made the cut through a pretty wild sequence of events.

When an outside source owns the majority of your league...it's going to very hard," union vice president Napheesa Collier said of the union's push for a fair share.

After sharing initial proposals, the two sides apparently are far apart in the early negotiations as they prepare for their first face-to-face meeting that includes the players executive council in Indianapolis heading into All-Star weekend.

WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert doesn’t see an immediate future where the W’s best players take a week off from the regular season to compete at the American Century Championship golf tournament on Lake Tahoe. She does envision, however, more eyeballs on the product in the future as a result of strategic partnerships through corporations.

As the league enters its All-Star break, it finds itself at a hazardous crossroads and in the now-unavoidable crosshairs.

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Washington Mystics rookie guard Sonia Citron revealed on Thursday she found out she made the WNBA All-Star team in one of the more bizarre ways.