CHICAGO — Tuesday’s meeting between player committees and WNBA officials, including commissioner Cathy Engelbert, focused on security, online harassment and officiating.

But Women’s National Basketball Players Association president Nneka Ogwumike used the rare face time with Engelbert to make a point.

“I told Cathy, we shouldn’t just be talking when things go wrong,” Ogwumike recalled Friday during All-Star availability. “We also need to be talking when things go right.”

Engelbert’s working relationship with players, especially the league’s stars, has been under a microscope for quite some time.

The criticism, though, intensified over the past year amid contentious negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement and now as the league faces a variety of troublesome issues, including the topics discussed Tuesday.

After last season, Lynx star Napheesa Collier blasted the WNBA for having the “worst leadership in the world.”

She also said the “real threat” to the league isn’t money, ratings or officiating, but a lack of accountability at the top.

Several players said they don’t have close relationships with Engelbert, including Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu, who said she talks with NBA commissioner Adam Silver more.

All of this has brought into question Engelbert’s job security.

Front Office Sports reported her contract is set to expire at the end of this year.

Could this be it for Engelbert?

Or maybe the better question is whether Engelbert is the right leader to steer the WNBA in its next chapter.

WNBPA vice president Breanna Stewart isn’t sure.

“I don’t know,” she said. “… It’s not my place to say if she should be here or she should not.”

Ogwumike also said it wasn’t her place to weigh in.

Engelbert got defensive when asked about her future at the WNBA draft in April — just weeks after her boss, Silver, appeared noncommittal when asked a similar question.

Saturday was the first time Engelbert was scheduled to speak with reporters since she outwardly wondered whether a reporter would ask about her future had she been a man.

The WNBA has seen a surge of unprecedented interest and popularity over the past few years.

And Engelbert has done a lot of good for the WNBA since she became the league’s first commissioner in 2019.

She brokered two transformational CBAs, including this year’s deal, which featured the first robust revenue-share model in women’s professional sports.

She also led the league through the pandemic, supported players’ stances on social justice issues and expansion, among other things.

But she’s also had some missteps.

The 16 percent stake sale for $75 million in 2022, viewed as a necessity at the time, has aged poorly.

Her inability to form meaningful relationships with players is notable, and Ogwumike emphasized that “the relationship between players and leadership is incredibly important.”

“She’s contributed to so much growth in this league, and I feel like when things go wrong, it’s easy for people to try and figure out how to point the finger,” Ogwumike said. “And she’s, of course, the easiest one to point to. Nobody is perfect in their role, none of us are perfect in our roles, but we try to assure her that that’s how we try to support her in that way as players.”

Stewart believes Engelbert has “learned a lot” over the years and is making an effort to bridge those relationships.

Stewart said Engelbert is more open and personable, though it remains “something she can always improve on.”

Ogwumike said players and Engelbert are still investing in building trust.

“I’m hoping that she’s felt like we’ve been able to do that but I do think moving forward, we have to get better at maintaining that line of communication between players, whether it’s through player leadership or even just individual players,” Ogwumike said. “There’s a lot of players in this league but I want people to feel approachable, to be able to discuss things with her without having to do it in a reactive sense.”