Did they get you 2 trade your heroes 4 ghosts? Hot ashes 4 trees? Hot air 4 a cool breeze? Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war 4 a lead role in a cage?
Hey @StephanieWhite, the person who causes the most challenges for the Fever group is YOU!
When YOU sing the praises of an opposing team’s player who just clocked your player, it is not “outside noise”. It is YOU that is the problem!
Fever coach, Stephanie White, defends DiJonai Carrington.
You would never see this in the NBA. Or any professional men's league. No men's coach would defend the player & team who assaulted one of their own, even if it was justified. They just wouldn't.
Two women are carrying women's basketball on their backs right now, and neither one of them works in the league office.
Caitlin Clark brought the audience. That is not a talking point, it is arithmetic. She moved ratings, sold out arenas, and dragged a league that had been ignored for twenty-five years into the center of American sports conversation. The new CBA that lifted the minimum salary above 300,000 dollars and quadrupled the cap does not happen without the money she generated. Every player in that league got a raise because one woman from Iowa would not miss.
Sophie Cunningham gave the audience a reason to stay.
She said girls should not have to compete against males. She said she was offering truth alongside love, not hate. One sentence, said plainly, in a sport where almost nobody in authority will say anything plainly.
And she has been standing in the open taking incoming ever since, while the institution she plays for has not managed to say her name.
Look at what happened to the people who showed up for her. Two sixteen year old girls wore XX-XY shirts to a Storm game and held a sign that said thank you Sophie for speaking up for girls. They were booed. A fan yelled security, take the trash out. Two women tried to trip one of them in the aisle. A team co-owner screamed obscenities at them until one of them cried.
The league fined that owner and suspended her five home games, which means the league conceded every fact of it.
Teenagers. In an arena. For a t-shirt.
So think about the actual scoreboard here.
Clark built the market. Cunningham defended the category the market exists to watch. Between them they have done more for women's sport in three seasons than a generation of committee statements.
And the league's contribution has been a deleted gambling video, a suspended owner, and a head coach who said she was not educated enough from a scientific standpoint to answer whether males belong in the women's game. She coaches women for a living.
The cape in this picture is a joke. The job is not.
Somebody has to stand between little girls and the people who decided that protecting their category is a controversial opinion. Right now that somebody is a shooting guard from Missouri who was not asking for the assignment.
Back your players. They are the only reason anyone is watching.
Write that down. 🦋
@AlinaHabba Cute. This administration treats the law like a buffet and only remembers the Constitution between golf rounds and indictments.—Now suddenly it’s sacred? Sit down.
@AlinaHabba You're a disgrace to the legal profession. Somewhere, somehow, someone is keeping notes on dirty filthy attorneys like you that enable fascist actions. Your day will come & I hope to be here to see it....LOSER.