🇺🇸 LET’S TALK ABOUT TEAM USA.
There are currently two Atlanta Dream players — Angel Reese and Rhyne Howard — who have been visibly absent from the National Anthem ceremonies.
So here’s my question:
If you’re selected to represent the United States, wear the USA jersey, and compete under the American flag, should there be an expectation that you actually participate in honoring the country you’re representing?
And this shouldn’t be selective.
Players AND coaches.
You absolutely have the right to protest — but Team USA also has the right to say, “Then you may not be the right person to represent us.”
Because representing your country is different from representing a WNBA franchise.
If you refuse to stand for the anthem, why should you be chosen to wear USA across your chest? 🇺🇸
Let’s have that conversation — and let’s apply the standard equally to everybody.
#TeamUSA #USABasketball #WNBA #NationalAnthem #USA @usabasketball #USABWNT @Reese10Angel@howard_rhyne@S10Bird
The @AtlantaDream play in a 3,500 seat arena…
When @CaitlinClark22@sophaller come to town the Atlanta Dream play in a 17,500 seat arena and FILL IT
- Don’t lecture us about the “built on the back of legends” bullshit
Why is WNBA coverage so safe and monotone? Where's the diversity in analysis and debate? The league deserves critical discussion from varied voices, not just a 'girls club' protecting it from scrutiny. What are networks afraid of? #WNBA#MediaCritique
Angel Reese missed a wide open lay up to win the game and Caitlin Clark laughing behind her as she reacts to the miss is going to be a meme for a long time.
Stephen A. Smith drops a blunt reality check on Indiana Fever Coach Stephanie White.
SMITH: "There are folks in Indiana at a home game BOOING YOU! You ain’t the road team. You’re the home team... and they’re booing YOU!"
"Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark can speak up for you all they want to... but that’s not going to be enough.
"[You say] ‘We will go high. Love, grace, humility will win.’ And then you tell everybody to ‘go to hell.’ You think that’s going to work for you, Coach White?"
“How are you the head coach... and you didn’t see the play? ... It’s your job to... watch the game. How did you not see the play?!”
When asked about Dijonai Carrington clotheslining Sophie Cunningham in the face, Coach White claimed: "I didn't see the play in real time. I went straight to a press conference. I thought the play got called right. Thankfully, Sophie's okay. Was it egregious? Absolutely. When you have a chance to watch that over and over and over on replay, you can see that. I didn't have that in real time."
Pictures are now surfacing online and contradicting that statement, because she was staring straight at Dijonai Carrington and Sophie Cunningham when the vicious foul happened.
Wow! look at that ghastly Karen, Stephanie White, who's a million times more upset about people criticizing her online, than she was about a black racist player on the opposing team trying to take off the head of one of her players!
The WNBA is pure trash!
You are an icon @PatMcAfeeShow. All these cry babies on here ain’t have jack sh*t to say when LeBron was twerking on stage with Hillary Clinton. MAGA 🇺🇸
I am a legit Fever fan. If she just said “I fucked up the other night. I shoulda defended Sophie (MY PLAYER) and not DJ so I get why our fans our pissed at me” maybe I can accept the apology. But this didnt really feel like an apology. More her yelling at us for trying to divide the locker room or something. Like blaming us for DJ tweeting “white privilege” in the locker room. That’s what is dividing people. Fever fans and players get blamed for everything under the sun. We’re not trying to divide anybody but its Fever vs the world and we want a coach who feels and acts that way