¡Acabo de ver el comercial que sacó @Nike de Halaand 🇳🇴! 💎💎💎
Cuando una GRAN IDEA, puede ser tan buena como una producción carísima. 🫡
A los que les guste la Psicología, lo van a disfrutar más 🤣.
😭😭😭 Sophie Cunningham just roasted mentally weak players 😭😭😭. Alyssa Thomas ?
At the end of the day you’re in an entertainment business. That’s where mental toughness comes in .” Cook Sophie ! Day f the haters & nasties & move on!
Fair warning: this is a longer post, but it's something I've been thinking about for a while.
First off, this was a great interview and a genuinely vulnerable statement. I hope people take a moment to really listen to what she said.
One thing that stood out to me was the focus on actionable solutions the league can take. That shouldn't be rare, but it often is. She also spoke up against the hate others have received and took time to lift up her fellow players.
It also reinforced something I've been thinking about for a while.
I made a conscious decision not to chase clicks by making multiple videos about this situation beyond breaking down the game itself. Those videos would have done numbers, but I learned during Caitlin Clark's rookie season that constantly feeding drama builds the kind of audience I don't want.
I'm a small creator. I genuinely enjoy basketball and want to celebrate the players. Caitlin brought me back to the WNBA, but she's far from the only reason I watch. This league is full of incredible talent and stories worth telling.
After every Fever game, I post a highlight recap with play by play. I try to give credit to both teams, highlight great plays wherever they happen, make a few jokes, and tell the story of the game. That's the content I enjoy making.
Drama is profitable. It gets clicks. But it also creates conversations that too often revolve around outrage instead of basketball.
To everyone who supports my channel, thank you. Whether you've been here for a while or you're just finding my content, my goal is simple: to be a consistent place for thoughtful, constructive basketball discussion. We can disagree, criticize players, coaches, officials, and the league when it's deserved, but I'd rather do it in a way that adds to the conversation than tears it down.
Process over results. Basketball over drama. That's the lane I'm staying in.
She cooked with this
COOKED
I'm not sure how she did this off the cuff
But she implicitly linked the bad faith racists with the clickbaity journalists saying they are both just after clicks basically - a master stroke
And then going in on the refs very surgically and cleanly
And the "we're just beating on each other, beating on each other" - she's talking about both physically and verbally, making an implicit and textual link between the physical abuse a la AT and the verbal abuse that is rampant in the league
There is SO MUCH HERE that is explicit and implicit
I'm just, it's a big wow from me
Implicitly linking the racists with the journalists who just want the clicks is blowing my mind, how did she do that, genius because it's true! They are both just after the clicks
I remember my gangsta days back in high school and college, growing up in New York City. 🗽 If I did something to someone, I owned that shit. If I meant it, I stood on it unapologetically. 💯 If I didn’t, I’d apologize. No excuses. No fake outrage. No playing innocent. If I was wrong, I was wrong.
Nowadays, too many people will do some dirty shit, then the moment they’re called out, they start rewriting the story, dodging accountability, and refuse to take an ounce of personal responsibility. 🎭🙄
If you’re going to be a bully or act gangsta, at least have the backbone to own that shit. Otherwise, practice being a better fucking human. Accountability will never go out of style. 👊
The victim act after the fact just isn’t a good look... 🤦🏻♀️
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