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Let me summarize the WNBA for you so far this year: White lady dominates everyone else on the court. A different white lady says obvious things. Black lady mugs the white ladies. Black lady gets punished. Black lady complains that the entire league is rigged against black people. Meanwhile, the league can’t figure out what the ‘W’ stands for for in its own name, and multiple male NBA retirees declare for next year’s WNBA draft.
The speaker criticizes the WNBA as a \"dumpster fire,\" focusing on a violent foul by Dijonay Carrington on Sophie Cunningham and the subsequent claims of \"white privilege.\" The commentary further mocks the league's inclusivity policies, highlighting former NBA players declaring for the WNBA draft to challenge gender eligibility rules.
All right, time to summarize the WNBA for you so far this season.
White Lady dominates everybody else on the court.
A different White Lady says obvious things.
A Black Lady, who is not very good on the court, proceeds to mug the White Ladies.
The Black Lady gets punished.
The Black Lady complains that the entire system is rigged against Black people.
Meanwhile, the league still can't figure out what the W stands for in WNBA,
and multiple NBA retirees declare for the next year's draft to prove the point.
Ah, it's beautiful.
The dumpster fire that is the WNBA has been brought to its knees by one player
just saying obvious things.
So that is a thing that happened over the weekend when it turns out that a player
named Dijonay Carrington went directly after Sophie Cunningham.
So Sophie Cunningham, of course, is the player for the Indiana Fever who has said,
who has made the horrifyingly true statement that boys are not girls,
and has stood up for Caitlyn Clarke when she was getting,
no pun intended, manhandled, or I guess womanhandled.
In any case, so Dijonay Carrington, Cunningham is coming down the lane
with the speed of a gazelle, and Dijonay Carrington comes from behind and just clotheslines her.
Here's Cunningham up ahead of the field, lays it in,
puts the foul, and then Cunningham gets into the face of Dijonay Carrington
right away in the aftermath.
I mean, yeah, that is not, I mean, just hammers her.
I mean, for no reason, by the way.
I mean, just clocks the, look at this.
Oh, that is not, I'm sorry.
I mean, she's definitely going to be upgraded to a flagrant.
She's not even trying to hold her to stop her from making the layup.
She just goes around her head.
Well, yeah, she's complaining about that?
In what world?
Well, yeah, I mean, look at this.
She doesn't just, like, grab around the shoulder.
She, she, like, grabs her around the face.
Come on.
Okay, so she gets ejected,
and it turns out that the real victim here is Dijonay Carrington.
She then tweeted out, all caps,
WHITE PRIVILEGE at Indiana Fever.
Uh, what now?
What now?
So you close line, I mean, again, absolute close lining.
And then she posted 8-23, which is the date that she plays the Fever next.
And again, we've seen some pretty hard fouls in the sport.
This is like 1980s basketball, honestly, like 1980s NBA.
As a Celtics fan, this is a play near and dear to my heart.
This is the Kevin McHale close lining of Kurt Rambis in the 1984 finals
that may, in fact, have turned around the finals in favor of the Celtics.
It looks like this, right?
Here we go.
Here's Rambis, and then here comes McHale.
And McHale kind of grabs him.
Okay, it's like the same play, except way, way worse from Dijonay Carrington,
who grabbed him around the head.
Here he sort of grabs him around the shoulder.
A little bit of the neck.
Okay, but that was like a, that was a super hard foul on Kurt Rambis back in 1984.
That's considered like one of the hardest fouls.
So, yeah, I mean, that's, that's a play grid.
Okay, let's be real about, okay, white privilege.
Why is everything white privilege?
Why?
That is, it's not white privilege if the player that you absolutely destroyed coming down the
court, like she's Rudy Tomjanovich near Kermit Washington, is somehow an aspect of white
privilege when you get ejected.
Like, come on.
But here was the Indiana Fever coach doing the obligatory thing,
defending Dijonay Carrington.
Look, it was a hard foul.
I don't think that Dijonay intentionally came out to get her across the neck like she did.
But it did happen.
And I thought it was the right call.
But, you know, one of the things about Ney is that she's going to play her butt off, man.
She's going to compete.
Nobody's going to go walking in for a layup.
And so I'm not, I don't oppose the hard foul.
But I also don't think that she intentionally went for the neck.
And Kaitlin Clark does not look particularly happy about this particular statement by her
coach sitting right next to her.
Again, it's ridiculous.
OK, so fine.
Say that.
But she's the one who's claiming white privilege.
She's the one who says it's white privilege to be ejected.
Like the WNBA just cannot get out of its own way.
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OK, meanwhile, apparently a lot of people were very upset that Caitlin Clark bumped
into a referee and they got a technical.
It was later rescinded.
Here's what that looked like.
The fever have been told this technical foul was for Caitlin Clark running into the official.
Here's what happened.
She let's go.
The ball spins off of her.
I don't see in what world that contact rises to the level of a T.
OK, and they called the foul and then they uncalled foul because, again, it's not even
remotely a technical foul.
And then people like racism.
Do you want your league to be successful or not?
Honestly, you make it not fun.
You make it not fun because you're being like this, because you're being so stupid and obnoxious.
You're making whatever this is.
It's barely fun anyway.
You're making it super duper not fun.
You know, sports should be kind of fun.
I'll admit that over the weekend, my kids and I discovered banana ball, which is basically
a form of baseball starring the Savannah Bananas.
And my kids are super into this.
Why?
Because they care about the fun of it.
It's like silly and fun.
Sports should be fun.
Sports should be interesting.
It should not be this.
Now, speaking of the WNBA, on Friday, Enos Kanter, with whom I'm friendly, is a former
center for a wide variety of teams, including the Boston Celtics.
He declared for the WNBA draft.
This is hilarious.
After careful consideration and reviewing the current eligibility guidelines, I am officially
declaring myself a WNBA prospect.
If simply declaring who you are is all that's required, then I meet every single requirement
necessary to compete in the WNBA.
My team and I have carefully examined the WNBA's eligibility criteria and governing
framework surrounding self-identification and inclusion.
Based on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring my eligibility for
the upcoming WNBA draft in May 2027.
I am definitely not here to mock, make fun of, or to suspect any community or personal
choices.
I am simply asking that the current rules be applied equally to everyone.
The rules that represent the very values many WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated
for.
My team and I are prepared to ensure these guidelines are applied equally, consistently,
and without exception.
And I look forward to the WNBA honoring its stated principles.
See you at training camp.
He was not the only player to come out and do this.
Royce White also declared for the 2027 WNBA draft.
Oh, earlier this week, I made the announcement.
I'm transgender.
I'm a woman.
I'm identify as sometimes identifying as a woman for purposes of basketball, professional
basketball.
So I'll be declaring for the WNBA draft in 2027 as well.
I mean, I think I'd be unstoppable.
You know, but I'm a team first guy.
You know, I'm a pass first kind of player.
I do the little things.
You know, I led my team in all five major stat categories at Iowa State University.
So I do a little bit of everything.
I'll do whatever the coach needs me to do.
I'll do whatever the girls need me to do.
Yeah, well, now the WNBA is going to have to do something about this.
According to the Associated Press, the WNBA wants to set some standards.
Apparently, WNBA commissioner wrote in a memo, quote, I know many of you have received
questions in recent weeks regarding transgender athlete participation in women's basketball.
I expect this topic will continue to receive significant attention.
And they're going to have a task force of team presidents and general managers at a
previously scheduled meeting next week.
The commissioner said that the league will, quote, always approach this topic thoughtfully,
respectfully, and in alignment with the longstanding values of our league.
Secondly, our player eligibility rules, unlike the eligibility rules of some other leagues
and governing bodies are collectively bargained.
Lastly, preserving the integrity of our game and ensuring fair competition will always
remain among the league's highest priorities.
I don't know.
I don't know, man.
I think discrimination is coming.
You can feel it.
You can feel it happening.
It's coming.
And we'll fight that.
We'll stand against the discrimination of the WNBA in only allowing women to play.
They can't do it.
It's not right.
Gotta let gotta let the boys who say they're girls, or even if they don't say they're girls,
just sport for everyone.
Sport for everyone.
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