@NyraGotTheJuice@nightshiftnomad Imagine taking dude serious that says this isn’t real ☠️☠️
Could just , ya know explain the charge since he didn’t do nothin ya know?
@NyraGotTheJuice@nightshiftnomad Imagine taking dude serious that says this isn’t real ☠️☠️
Could just , ya know explain the charge since he didn’t do nothin ya know?
Everybody needs a face reality. These old players don’t like the spotlight and they don’t like the new era of generation talent coming in to their league as they say if you don’t like it get the heck out if you can’t handle the spotlight get the heck out a new era not going away
I’ve never seen a fanbase more vilified than Indiana Fever/Caitlin Clark fans
Media has been attacking them as hateful, bigoted, even racist for 3 years now… It’s insane & unfounded.
Any media member defending A’ja Wilson’s actions is either delusional or willfully ignorant.
This pathetic thing is to be shut down immediately. When’s the next time she gotta go to the ER for anxiety attack a.k.a. oh my God I don’t know what’s wrong with me a plum damn🤡🤡🤡🤡
She knows exactly what she’s doing. The more outrageous she gets on her steams and in spaces, the more creators react, the more views she gets, and the more money she makes.
It’s not chaos. It’s the business model. 🎭
THE MOST REVEALING PART OF LAST NIGHT MAY HAVE COME FROM THE BROADCAST BOOTH.
A’ja Wilson goes into the stands to confront a fan, and before anyone knows what the fan actually said or did, the defense begins.
Candace Parker:
“We don’t know what was said, but A’ja took exception to it.”
Then LaChina Robinson:
“You know something was said.”
She went even further, suggesting A’ja Wilson would never react that way unless it was “absolutely necessary.”
The broadcast even called for the fan to be removed from the building.
Read those two statements again.
“We don’t know what was said.”
“You know something was said.”
That contradiction may explain more about the WNBA’s cultural problem than anything I could write.
The conclusion came first.
The facts came later.
A WNBA star reacted, therefore the fan must have done something terrible.
A WNBA star became angry, therefore her reaction must have been justified.
The possibility that the player herself had crossed the line barely seemed to enter the conversation.
Then security actually investigated.
They spoke with the fan.
They spoke with witnesses.
They found NO VIOLATION of the Fan Code of Conduct.
The fan stayed.
That should bother every serious sports fan.
Fans absolutely can cross lines. When they do, remove them. Ban them when appropriate. Protect the players.
But professional sports broadcasting requires something else too:
OBJECTIVITY.
Describe what happened.
Ask questions.
Wait for facts.
Hold stars accountable with the same intensity used to defend them.
What we heard instead was the reflex of an ecosystem that has spent decades talking primarily to itself.
Former players become broadcasters.
Players become coaches.
Coaches become executives.
Executives hire people from the same basketball circles.
Everybody knows everybody.
Everybody protects everybody.
And eventually the assumptions become so deeply embedded that nobody inside the bubble even recognizes them as assumptions anymore.
They simply become “the truth.”
Meanwhile, a much larger national sports audience is now watching closely enough to see the contradictions immediately.
The WNBA no longer has the luxury of operating inside that cocoon.
And with Cathy Engelbert leaving and the search for the next commissioner underway, last night should be another enormous warning to Adam Silver.
Hiring another guardian of the existing WNBA culture would be a profound mistake.
The next commissioner needs enough distance from this ecosystem to challenge it.
Enough independence to question its assumptions.
Enough basketball credibility to recognize when the story on the court does not match the narrative being sold around it.
And enough courage to tell everyone involved something they desperately need to hear:
The WNBA has grown too big to keep talking only to itself.
@WNBAComms , the next commissioner should make this a priority. You should not be running a woke WNBA also. The coach of the year I think karma found your address.
The day after the WOKE WNBA gave that angry, white, liberal, lesbian, Cheryl Reeve, the Coach of the Year award, her number one seed team got swept out of the playoffs by a number eight seed tonight! 🤣
God I love Karma!
This is all the hate that A’ja Wilson behavior tonight cause!!! you have current players X players fans all throwing accusations and hate towards Caitlin Clark towards Indiana fever organization!! when is enough going to be enough this is the same song and dance Chelsea Gray pool the same bullshit as well the last time!!
@WNBA you need to control your players over their own threads they are inciting a race war!!!
Please share this everyone
Absolutely. Everybody that has not seen film and A’ja reaction at the podium, suspension is needed and every media outlet should fire their team who ran with a racism narrative. @WNBA@espn
Despite having 0 evidence, all SEVEN of Amazon Prime Video’s WNBA commentators excused and defended A’ja Wilson’s outburst.
Even when the Fever said the fan didn’t do anything, they doubled down.
Just remember when they say “diversity” they never mean diversity of thought.