WNBA Hates Breakout Player Because She’s Straight And White
Remember the WNBA? The women’s basketball league the NBA started to draw more women into watching basketball? In its inaugural season, the WNBA finals drew 2.85 million viewers, when the Houston Comets won the first of their four championships.
It’s never reached those heights again, and the Comets folded in 2008. There was a mild uptick to 728,000 viewers last year.
So you’d think the league would welcome an exciting, highly skilled new breakout player.
You’d be wrong.
“For almost three decades the WNBA has been a laughing stock and disgrace of a professional sports league that only survives due to NBA subsidies.”
“A possible turning point for this sad existence of a league has arrived in the form of a basketball messiah.”
“Caitlin Clark, the greatest and most popular female college basketball player of all time, has announced she’ll be joining the WNBA this upcoming season, and some think she can do for the WNBA what Larry, Magic or Jordan did for the NBA.” I think she can make it more popular, but I sincerely doubt she can produce the same boost that trio gave to the NBA’s fortunes.
“The WNBA’s players don’t want Caitlin Clark to succeed.”
“The WNBA is made up primarily of players who’ve been infected with the false ideas of modern feminism, which heavily focuses on issues related to race, sexuality, gender identity and participating in the oppression Olympics.” I would say “Get woke, go broke,” but the WNBA was already broke without NBA subsidies.
“The players that have been infected with this ideology don’t want Clark to be the face of the league and will do everything in their power to stop it from happening.”
“The first problem Clark will face is that she will be a straight player in a primarily LGBT dominated league, which some of you may think is nonsense and won’t have any effect.”
“But don’t take it from me, take it from former WNBA champion and number three overall draft pick Candace Wiggins, who claimed that 98% of the league is gay and that the toxic environment within the the league affected her as a straight woman and made her retire early.”
“From her first moment in the league, she was targeted and harassed because she was straight and a nationally popular figure, and that many of the other players were jealous and consistently tried to hurt her.”
“After Wiggins came out with these comments, the media didn’t support her. Instead they tried to tear down and diminish her.”
“If you look at viewership numbers since the start of the league, you’ll see viewership is still down tremendously. But the league and the media will still try to create a positive narrative by saying things like how this year’s finals had the highest viewership for a game three in 18 years, without mentioning it was still over 200,000 viewers short of the game three 18 years ago, and one of the teams that played in that game [doesn’t] even exist anymore.”
“Even worse for Caitlin Clark is that, unlike Wiggins, in the minds of those who participate in the oppression Olympics, Clark bears the ultimate sin of being white.”
“We’ve already seen this be a problem for other WNBA Stars. For example Sabrina Ionescu. She’s of course the player who took Steph Curry to the wire in the Three-Point Contest, which was probably the most exciting thing of that dumpster fire of an All-Star weekend.”
“Like Clark, Sabrina was a dominant college player who won awards and consistently pulled in higher attendance numbers for her college game than the average WNBA game, yet ever since she’s been in the league she’s faced criticism from players and the media because she’s white.”
“With an Emmy-nominated sportscaster [Chris Williamson] straight up saying the reason people aren’t rocking with Sabrina is because she leans into her white privilege and benefits from her whiteness and doesn’t use it to uplift and amplify her black co-workers voices in the WNBA.”
Plus the usual accusations of racism for putting her on the NBA2K24 cover. (Which is, I think, a special WNBA edition available only at Gamestop? I don’t play sports video games, so I have no idea how these various editions work.)
“This past year, Sabrina was ranked six by the fans and media among guards for All-Star voting, but was ranked 19th by the players.”
“Articles have already started to emerge which claim Clark’s whiteness is the reason she has been elevated to superstar status instead of, you know, the fact that she’s actually a legit college superstar who’s scoring points at a level not seen since Pistol Pete and bringing in more fans to the women’s game than ever before.” This is hyperbole. Though quite impressive, Clark’s 27.8 points per game in NCAA Division 1 doesn’t come close to Pete Maravich’s insane 44.5 points per game, and Chris Clemons averaged 30 points a game 2018-19.
“Those in and around the league subscribe to beliefs that simply don’t allow them to build the WNBA around Caitlin Clark, but rather instead actually urge them to tear her down.”
Is the commenter (TooLazyToHoop) overselling Clark? Maybe. I’m hardly an expert on the WNBA or women’s college basketball. (Although, since I could, in fact, name five past WNBA players with a gun to my head, I probably do know more than 99% of the American public.) But the video shows Clark does have a very sweet 3-point stroke.
And now Bill Burr’s quite relevant WNBA rant:
“Nobody in the WNBA got Covid.”
“We gave you a fucking league! None of you showed up! Where are all the feminists? None of you went to the fucking games. You failed them, not me.”
“Women failed the WNBA.”
“Meanwhile, the Kardashians are making billions. Those Real Housewives shows are making money hand over fist. That’s what women are watching.”
It is not just the Houston Comets don’t exist, as if they might have changed cities like the Oilers. Despite having more seasons in which they won a WNBA championship than not; they were losing money. There were some poor management decisions, but overall, they were a greater financial failure than the league itself. Eventually, the team was dissolved.
I just set to DVR the final college games of Caitlin Clark. I enjoy watching talent at its best.
We’re moving closer and closer to a national divorce, precipitated by the election of Barak Obama.
Race relations were on the point of becoming a virtual non-issue until he was elected. Afterwards, with the policies put in place, along with his actions?
He’s going to go down in history as one of the greatest wreckers ever, on a par with Jimmy Carter.
Ever stop and thought about just how much damage Jimmy did, with his sanctimonious backstabbing of the Shah of Iran? How many more Iranians died to no purpose, fighting Iraq? How many terrorist attacks he enabled, through sheer feckless sanctimony?
Even if the Shah was the monster that Carter portrayed him as, he would have been responsible for killing exponentially fewer people than the various mullahs did. Not to mention, all the follow-on effects, like Afghanistan. The Soviets would have been very unlikely to go into Afghanistan at all, had the Shah still been in power. They’d have had to worry about him, the US, and ohbytheway, there would have been the fact that there wasn’t a revolutionary Islamic regime there to foment trouble in the borderland regions.
Regardless of how you want to excuse it, Carter is responsible for millions of deaths, as Barry will be in future years. My guess is that we’re due for a national divorce between whites and blacks, thanks in no small part to him, and the result won’t be in favor of the blacks. The Democrats are already moving in their replacements, and the Mexican/Central American illegals ain’t exactly noted for their love of blacks in any way, shape or form. It’s going to be ugly, and I don’t see any available refuge for them, as they had in Belize.
If you’ve never noted it, do be aware that the Honduran/Guatemalan hatred of Belize as an independent nation has a lot more to do with race than anyone admits. Because of how the Spaniards used their African slaves in Mexico and Central America, there’s an extensive reservoir of vitriolic hatred for blacks among the Indio and Mestizo populations down there… Which a lot of people don’t like to talk about. Ask some questions, sometime, find out what they think, what they believe. Your eyes will be opened.
I hope Clark figures out how to cash out before the league folds. I doubt she can rescue it.
And the refs had better keep a close eye on anyone trying to literally physically hurt her. The WNBA reputation is already tottering.
Remember, WNBA “ladies,” playing in a professional game doesn’t mean you can’t be criminally charged for extreme behavior. Not to mention that would give the league a reputation of thuggery that would make it unwelcome in a lot of America.
Umm . . . chances are, she’s faced intense “alphabet community” pressure for some time now. Unless Iowa is an *extreme* outlier of a program, most of the players/female staff are probably lesbians and have probably had more than one go at her. The only thing that’s saved her, I’d wager, is that she’s a really good player and winning covers a multitude of “sins.” I’ve known more than one female D1 athlete, going back decades, who’ve faced it. Some have knuckled under, others have walked away. Few fought it out all four years. I don’t think that will be a problem. However, more than one of those female D1 athletes I’ve mentioned walked away because their own teammates attempted to physically harm them during practice for not caving to the lesbian pressure. I wouldn’t be surprised in a league like that WNBA that she’s gonna be facing a LOT of cheap shots and not have the backing of whatever team drafts her.
Glad you mentioned Candace Wiggins, I lived in San Diego, she grew up in SD, when she retired and she mentioned what you wrote. She was a world class athlete in volleyball and basketball at Stanford and I think with the WNBA Minnesota franchise. I think if Caitlin lasts 4 years I would be surprised. But then again, becoming a mom would not be in end of the world to her.
We’ve been watching the Aces play for two years now, and haven’t noticed any of the racial things noted in the article. As far as being lesbians, that’s pretty much irrelevant. Kacey Plum got married last year, and it’s her NCAA record that Caitlin Clark beat. Candace Parker used to be married, but now her SO is a woman, but so what? They don’t make a big deal out of it. If lesbians don’t make a big deal out of it, the fans don’t either.
As for the league folding, that’s nonsense. The league attracts more and more followers each year, and this year the Aces have already sold out ALL their season ticket seats. It’s just fun to watch these young ladies play, what with their incredible teamwork and enjoyment.
The prevalence of bi- or lesbian women in sports shouldn’t be a surprise… They are, supposedly, more “male” in outlook than average women. So, that’d explain the atypical interest in sports.
Whether or not that market is enough to build a league on top of is the real question. I think the average “straight” woman is just not all that much into team sports like basketball, from my experience. The majority of them are into things like that more because those are things the guys are interested in, and they’re trying to fit in. I can count the number of women I know who’d be following a sport on their own absent male participation in the experience on the fingers of one hand… They’re rarer than hen’s teeth. You won’t find them turning on the football game while the boyfriend or husband is out of town, and if you do…? Then, you might want to wonder about their actual sexuality, in my past experience. Two of the women I know who were “voluntary sports enthusiasts” eventually came out as lesbian. If she turns the game on without someone else there to prompt it? She’s seriously atypical, in my experience.
“The very highest WNBA salary is less than a fourth the very lowest NBA salary.”
It’s still way more than they are worth, based on what they generate in revenue. Not to mention, still subsidized by the NBA.
Let’s face it: If you want to make the WNBA successful, you’d be better off trying to get every woman in the country onto hormone treatments at an early age in order to make her brain more like a males. Until you do that, the WNBA is always going to be an economic failure by comparison to the male-oriented NBA. Team sports just aren’t really a “girl thing” for most. Trying to build an economic powerhouse like the NBA off of edge cases simply isn’t going to happen.
Women and blacks are proving to be really, really bad at math. Women think that because 95th percentile females like Gina Carano can do as well as the average male at things like MMA, well… That means every woman can do the same.
This is not actually a thing. And, ohbytheway, it’s not 95th percentilers like Carano that they’re going to be putting into the Infantry when it comes down to it, it’s going to be little Suzy Sparkles who never, ever did a sport in high school and who got scammed by a system that really doesn’t care about her or her long-term health.
Same with blacks: They think, because the tiny fraction of the country they’re mostly in seems to be dominated by blacks, that that is true everywhere. They don’t comprehend “13 % of the population” at all.
I blame the schools; women and blacks get shortchanged on math classes. They mostly don’t, as a group, get statistics or percentages.
It’s that same issue with the WNBA: The women who’re really into this crap think that they’re the majority, instead of the tiny fraction that’s interested in this sort of thing. Real truth? I’d lay you long odds that were you to put this up to a valid statistical test, probably only about 2-3% of women are really into this stuff in a meaningful way. Which means, as an implication, that the WNBA ain’t never going to be as successful as the male NBA. Quit trying to make it a thing, huh?
Last I knew, the leading ticket buyers for WNBA games were middle-aged men. Given the style and quality of play, it’s basically guys watching a game where the skill level and athleticism is slightly better than their YMCA league–something realistic for them to aspire to in their own pickup games.
The NBA skill level and athleticism is light years from what a typical rec league player will ever participate in on the local court and far beyond what their limited genetics would allow them to achieve, even with total devotion. It’s like watching a movie, while the WNBA is something of a tutorial for athletically limited older men.
That’s… An interesting data point. If true, it just goes to show that the WNBA is even less of an economic proposition than they think it is, and that, again, the problem is women not having a real interest in it.
I wonder how that would make the players feel, to know that the primary reason people come to their games is for middle-age aspirational players to observe their play… If that’s the case, that might be a probable cause for their inchaoate anger at the situation they’re in.
Same-same with female “pro-level” soccer players. You continually get your asses handed to you by good high-school boys teams, well… Yeah.
The Clark vs. Marovich comparison isn’t complete hyperbole if you just consider the raw numbers. Pete may have hit his mark in fewer overall games, but Clark’s got more career points than he does. (Still a bit of apples vs. oranges comparison, though)
Clark plays a different game, using different rules, and a different ball against different athletes than Maravich. To compare them at all is ridiculous.
There are people on social media today claiming she should be allowed to play in the NBA. Yes, people are totally insane. She couldn’t even make the roster of a decent men’s college team.
The best women’s teams (So Caro w/ Daley, Tenn w/Pat Summit) have their teams practice every day against a group of men students. The guys were decent HS players who weren’t good enough to play in college. They also had to be limited in height (no taller than 6-4 for Tenn). And they dominated the best women’s team in college hoops.
It is not just the Houston Comets don’t exist, as if they might have changed cities like the Oilers. Despite having more seasons in which they won a WNBA championship than not; they were losing money. There were some poor management decisions, but overall, they were a greater financial failure than the league itself. Eventually, the team was dissolved.
I just set to DVR the final college games of Caitlin Clark. I enjoy watching talent at its best.
We’re moving closer and closer to a national divorce, precipitated by the election of Barak Obama.
Race relations were on the point of becoming a virtual non-issue until he was elected. Afterwards, with the policies put in place, along with his actions?
He’s going to go down in history as one of the greatest wreckers ever, on a par with Jimmy Carter.
Ever stop and thought about just how much damage Jimmy did, with his sanctimonious backstabbing of the Shah of Iran? How many more Iranians died to no purpose, fighting Iraq? How many terrorist attacks he enabled, through sheer feckless sanctimony?
Even if the Shah was the monster that Carter portrayed him as, he would have been responsible for killing exponentially fewer people than the various mullahs did. Not to mention, all the follow-on effects, like Afghanistan. The Soviets would have been very unlikely to go into Afghanistan at all, had the Shah still been in power. They’d have had to worry about him, the US, and ohbytheway, there would have been the fact that there wasn’t a revolutionary Islamic regime there to foment trouble in the borderland regions.
Regardless of how you want to excuse it, Carter is responsible for millions of deaths, as Barry will be in future years. My guess is that we’re due for a national divorce between whites and blacks, thanks in no small part to him, and the result won’t be in favor of the blacks. The Democrats are already moving in their replacements, and the Mexican/Central American illegals ain’t exactly noted for their love of blacks in any way, shape or form. It’s going to be ugly, and I don’t see any available refuge for them, as they had in Belize.
If you’ve never noted it, do be aware that the Honduran/Guatemalan hatred of Belize as an independent nation has a lot more to do with race than anyone admits. Because of how the Spaniards used their African slaves in Mexico and Central America, there’s an extensive reservoir of vitriolic hatred for blacks among the Indio and Mestizo populations down there… Which a lot of people don’t like to talk about. Ask some questions, sometime, find out what they think, what they believe. Your eyes will be opened.
I hope Clark figures out how to cash out before the league folds. I doubt she can rescue it.
And the refs had better keep a close eye on anyone trying to literally physically hurt her. The WNBA reputation is already tottering.
Remember, WNBA “ladies,” playing in a professional game doesn’t mean you can’t be criminally charged for extreme behavior. Not to mention that would give the league a reputation of thuggery that would make it unwelcome in a lot of America.
Umm . . . chances are, she’s faced intense “alphabet community” pressure for some time now. Unless Iowa is an *extreme* outlier of a program, most of the players/female staff are probably lesbians and have probably had more than one go at her. The only thing that’s saved her, I’d wager, is that she’s a really good player and winning covers a multitude of “sins.” I’ve known more than one female D1 athlete, going back decades, who’ve faced it. Some have knuckled under, others have walked away. Few fought it out all four years. I don’t think that will be a problem. However, more than one of those female D1 athletes I’ve mentioned walked away because their own teammates attempted to physically harm them during practice for not caving to the lesbian pressure. I wouldn’t be surprised in a league like that WNBA that she’s gonna be facing a LOT of cheap shots and not have the backing of whatever team drafts her.
I went to one “women’s professional basketball” game in the early 2000’s, with a bisexual female.
It was her (very excited and happy) belief that 90%+ of the women in the crowd were either bi or lesbian.
So it may be that the crowd will be against her, too.
OTOH, the crowd may not care. After all, they can check her our regardless of whether or not she’s straight
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I had the same sad thought: they will torment Caitlin. I hope she knows what she’s getting into and will use it for her lifelong benefit.
No matter the sexuality, girls will be girls, Mean Girls.
Glad you mentioned Candace Wiggins, I lived in San Diego, she grew up in SD, when she retired and she mentioned what you wrote. She was a world class athlete in volleyball and basketball at Stanford and I think with the WNBA Minnesota franchise. I think if Caitlin lasts 4 years I would be surprised. But then again, becoming a mom would not be in end of the world to her.
We’ve been watching the Aces play for two years now, and haven’t noticed any of the racial things noted in the article. As far as being lesbians, that’s pretty much irrelevant. Kacey Plum got married last year, and it’s her NCAA record that Caitlin Clark beat. Candace Parker used to be married, but now her SO is a woman, but so what? They don’t make a big deal out of it. If lesbians don’t make a big deal out of it, the fans don’t either.
As for the league folding, that’s nonsense. The league attracts more and more followers each year, and this year the Aces have already sold out ALL their season ticket seats. It’s just fun to watch these young ladies play, what with their incredible teamwork and enjoyment.
The prevalence of bi- or lesbian women in sports shouldn’t be a surprise… They are, supposedly, more “male” in outlook than average women. So, that’d explain the atypical interest in sports.
Whether or not that market is enough to build a league on top of is the real question. I think the average “straight” woman is just not all that much into team sports like basketball, from my experience. The majority of them are into things like that more because those are things the guys are interested in, and they’re trying to fit in. I can count the number of women I know who’d be following a sport on their own absent male participation in the experience on the fingers of one hand… They’re rarer than hen’s teeth. You won’t find them turning on the football game while the boyfriend or husband is out of town, and if you do…? Then, you might want to wonder about their actual sexuality, in my past experience. Two of the women I know who were “voluntary sports enthusiasts” eventually came out as lesbian. If she turns the game on without someone else there to prompt it? She’s seriously atypical, in my experience.
I just hope she gets a lot of her WNBA money up front.
“Lot” and “WNBA money” don’t go together in the same sentence.
The very highest WNBA salary is less than a fourth the very lowest NBA salary.
“The very highest WNBA salary is less than a fourth the very lowest NBA salary.”
It’s still way more than they are worth, based on what they generate in revenue. Not to mention, still subsidized by the NBA.
Let’s face it: If you want to make the WNBA successful, you’d be better off trying to get every woman in the country onto hormone treatments at an early age in order to make her brain more like a males. Until you do that, the WNBA is always going to be an economic failure by comparison to the male-oriented NBA. Team sports just aren’t really a “girl thing” for most. Trying to build an economic powerhouse like the NBA off of edge cases simply isn’t going to happen.
Women and blacks are proving to be really, really bad at math. Women think that because 95th percentile females like Gina Carano can do as well as the average male at things like MMA, well… That means every woman can do the same.
This is not actually a thing. And, ohbytheway, it’s not 95th percentilers like Carano that they’re going to be putting into the Infantry when it comes down to it, it’s going to be little Suzy Sparkles who never, ever did a sport in high school and who got scammed by a system that really doesn’t care about her or her long-term health.
Same with blacks: They think, because the tiny fraction of the country they’re mostly in seems to be dominated by blacks, that that is true everywhere. They don’t comprehend “13 % of the population” at all.
I blame the schools; women and blacks get shortchanged on math classes. They mostly don’t, as a group, get statistics or percentages.
It’s that same issue with the WNBA: The women who’re really into this crap think that they’re the majority, instead of the tiny fraction that’s interested in this sort of thing. Real truth? I’d lay you long odds that were you to put this up to a valid statistical test, probably only about 2-3% of women are really into this stuff in a meaningful way. Which means, as an implication, that the WNBA ain’t never going to be as successful as the male NBA. Quit trying to make it a thing, huh?
Last I knew, the leading ticket buyers for WNBA games were middle-aged men. Given the style and quality of play, it’s basically guys watching a game where the skill level and athleticism is slightly better than their YMCA league–something realistic for them to aspire to in their own pickup games.
The NBA skill level and athleticism is light years from what a typical rec league player will ever participate in on the local court and far beyond what their limited genetics would allow them to achieve, even with total devotion. It’s like watching a movie, while the WNBA is something of a tutorial for athletically limited older men.
That’s… An interesting data point. If true, it just goes to show that the WNBA is even less of an economic proposition than they think it is, and that, again, the problem is women not having a real interest in it.
I wonder how that would make the players feel, to know that the primary reason people come to their games is for middle-age aspirational players to observe their play… If that’s the case, that might be a probable cause for their inchaoate anger at the situation they’re in.
Same-same with female “pro-level” soccer players. You continually get your asses handed to you by good high-school boys teams, well… Yeah.
The Clark vs. Marovich comparison isn’t complete hyperbole if you just consider the raw numbers. Pete may have hit his mark in fewer overall games, but Clark’s got more career points than he does. (Still a bit of apples vs. oranges comparison, though)
Clark plays a different game, using different rules, and a different ball against different athletes than Maravich. To compare them at all is ridiculous.
There are people on social media today claiming she should be allowed to play in the NBA. Yes, people are totally insane. She couldn’t even make the roster of a decent men’s college team.
The best women’s teams (So Caro w/ Daley, Tenn w/Pat Summit) have their teams practice every day against a group of men students. The guys were decent HS players who weren’t good enough to play in college. They also had to be limited in height (no taller than 6-4 for Tenn). And they dominated the best women’s team in college hoops.
oops. Dawn Staley came out Daley.