Bruce Maes

[Bruce Maes @BruceMaes]

Yeah I saw the extra at the end. She put a little on it. No doubt about that.

Could be kicking the dog. Tight space, camera in her path, and that other clip where she almost got clipped by a cameraman. That stays with you.

You take it out on the next one in the way.

Not saying she didn’t give it something extra.

Still don’t think she should be crucified for it.

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@HarrietParson14 @bonjourplaygirl Yeah I saw it.

It can look like get out of my way.

I still wouldn’t call it a push.

She’s on the clock and so is he.

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@JevWick @bonjourplaygirl Fair question.

I don’t see a lot of “excuse me” in that environment.

Both of them were working.

I won’t judge her for not saying it.

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@Adam20672054792 @bonjourplaygirl Working environment.

She was trying to get back to the bench.

That’s not a character thing.

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This is nothing personal. This is just business. She’s doing her job and she’s at work. She finished the interview they asked her to do at halftime, the camera was in the path back to the bench, and she put a hand on his arm and walked through. That’s not entitled. That’s an athlete getting back to her team.

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@PinkLucy01 @La_s1ren @bl0bgirl Nailed it.

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@22CCnews FIBA is featuring her because she is, in their own words, “one of, if not the most famous baller in the world,” and famous players sell a World Cup in Berlin. That is ticket-and-attention math, same as any global sport.

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@RomeovilleKid KK: she’s the GOAT of the league

CC: dies laughing into the towel

KK: she’s shooting it well and giving great assists

CC: I’ll take it

[Bruce Maes @BruceMaes]

I hear you. We can disagree on the joke.

She said protect little girls in sports and locker rooms. She also said she gets love and hate, she’s in the middle, and she never said she hated anyone. That’s the part that matters.

This wasn’t mooning. She had compression shorts on. You don’t have to like it. It still isn’t a suspension.

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Not hating. I respect that you’re a Christian and a fan.

This is gym clothes. Compression shorts. You see it in gyms and all over social media.

Common isn’t the same as sacred, but it also isn’t a suspension.

She’s one of 180 in the league and she’s huge online — about 4 million on Instagram, 4 million on TikTok.

That world is part of her job now. Don’t make an example out of something that ordinary because she has a following.

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@adrgilchrist77 @BBallGround She shouldn’t be disciplined.

That’s compression shorts. Gym clothes.

Same thing as pulling sweatpants off to work out. She didn’t show skin. She showed another layer.

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She’s talking about this season. Nobody is taking her minutes right now. That’s fair.

This still isn’t a trans debate first. It’s a roster rule.

If they want someone who is not a biological female in the league, write it in the CBA. If they don’t, write that too. They haven’t written either.

A talented biological male would take a slot. She may be gone by then. The next player won’t be.

Until the league and the union both sign a sentence, “I could play against one” is a feeling. It isn’t a policy.

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Yes. That’s the point.

There isn’t one on a roster today. The rule still leaves room if it came to it. Freedom is the easy no. The problem is the next one.

Fixing that means writing biological female into the CBA.

The league and the union both have to sign.

That’s why it isn’t settled.

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Appreciate that you played. You lived it. I haven’t.

The fingernail rule is NCAA and FIBA. The WNBA doesn’t have one.

I’ve seen the marks on Clark and Cunningham. Makes you wonder how many others come off the floor like that.

Call the grabs. Call the pokes. That’s the rule they actually have.

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Freedom is the one who probably files, and only after a real letter saying he’s off the 2027 list. A leak is not that.

Even then the lawsuit doesn’t write the rule.

The CBA says “women” and never defines it.

Changing that takes the league and the
players’ union.

So yes — a court fight and a union fight. Not a memo.

Not tomorrow.

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Clubs spend years developing these players. They leave at 18 or 19 and the academy gets nothing from the investment.

Time, energy, capital, gone. NCAA sits outside FIBA, so there’s no buyout and no training compensation.

The player takes the better offer. Fine. You still have to ask how long clubs keep building kids they don’t get to keep.

A few years ago the NCAA said athletes couldn’t be paid for the value they put into the sport. Then it admitted the value was real.

These clubs need the same admission.

Compensation is a partial solution. It
doesn’t stop the kid from leaving. It stops the club from eating the whole loss.

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There is no real count on this backlash.

The clip went viral. The posts actually attacking her are sitting on zero likes.

She has millions of followers. The Fever is posting her for 6th Player of the Year the same night.

What’s the big deal about compression shorts? That is gym clothes.

Not buying it. This is much ado about nothing. A clip, not a fan revolt.

Next they will tell you she is getting tarred and feathered and run out of the WNBA for her scandalous opinion.

Here it is. ESPN, July 21, 2026. Then she stood on it July 22 in Indianapolis, before the Fever-Sun game at Gainbridge:

“I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.”

“I said what I said. I think it’s kind of common sense.”

That is the statement. Compression shorts are not.

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@JamesBabbi66508 @dom_lucre Nothing.

She pulled her sweats down for a second on the court and showed compression shorts. That is not a scandal.

The clip is the argument.

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@litogor1 @anonnzpx @HqKay_ The players in general are taking the better offer.

Stay and LFB pays little at 18. Leave and you get a degree, a shop window, and NCAA money the club cannot match.

That is not disloyalty. That is the market. The problem is still the club that built them and gets nothing back.