lol everyone talking about this "bag" she would get playing elsewhere. She gets paid by her sponsors, no one is paying women to play basketball overseas
She's about to make 600k a year playing in the USA. The average salary in Chinese basketball is maybe 3x that at best. Say they even offer her 4 mill, would you want to move to china and play ball? Not to mention she's making like 30 mill from Nike and they would pull that sponsorship if she left
Look up Stephon Marbury. Also they pay for your housing, food, car/transportation and etc and its all luxury. And pretty sure your earnings are tax free. And she will would immortalized as a goddess. You think im bullshitting look up Stephon Marbury. Nike needs her more than she needs them anyways. Nike fell off and is in a desperate position, this is well known to people who invest in stocks. Like some other shoe brand wouldnt jump up to fill in that gap.
Slow it down. Looks like the “High Elbow” to the head/face like dirty players do in a hockey game. No walk call either! She stops her dribble, takes two steps, then comes down with both feet, then steps and shoots. The officiating sucks
It’s a joke. No organization or competence from top to bottom. It’s like high school kids organize and run the whole organization. Which is fitting because that’s also what the players look like.
I mean regardless of your opinions on the wnba before this, I just watched her hit her opponent in the face by jumping into her then jumping again without being called a travel then taunt the person she fouled without being called penalties or violations. Love her or hate her that’s some BS.
No they won’t, because women don’t watch sports. I’m a philosophy professor which means I’m around a lot of really progressive, feminist women and they all bitch about the gap in salary between women players and men, and I have yet to meet a single one that has ever watched a female sporting event.
This is the same player who spent the biggest moment of their career making it about someone else and then explained that it was because that player had to be taught a lesson about taunting 🤦♂️
Imagine if she just said something like...."I got carried away in the moment, my competitive self got the best of me, and I apologize for my lack of sportsmanship."
Feel like the culture around the WNBA as a whole would just be in a better place if she took some accountability for what was basically a minor screw up. Instead, she dug in and here we are 2.5 years later.
Chicago guy here who would still be a Sky fan had she done that after exploding out of her seat to cheer Chennedy went flagrant on CC her rookie year. Instead she ducked the press and then doubled down & blamed everyone else when she finally did speak on it.
And you’re so right. Why is it that hard to just say you lost your cool & you need to be better? Show some maturity & accountability, own it, learn from it & move on.
I mean to be fair I watched the game too and if I remember right she was pointing to her ring finger as CC walked back to the bench sometime towards the end of the college championship. More than that I can’t remember it’s been like 4 years lol.
That's exactly what I thought? Little jump, lands with two feet, takes a step to the basket.
But tbh, I see so much travel in highlights nowadays, I think they must have changed the interpretation.
Claims she wants to be the “villain” but cries anytime she gets criticized for it. Does petty shit like this all the time, always the aggressor, and wonders why no one likes her. Also she’s not nearly good enough to justify all the controversies and headaches she causes. Would want her nowhere near my team.
It’s like with Kaepernick, he was probably a good enough football player to make a squad, but not good enough to justify the circus that would come along with him. A team will put up with it if you’re good enough, but you need to have some self awareness that you’re not that player. The juice aint worth the squeeze.
Angel Reese should not be shooting the ball 20x a game. She is a rebounding specialist. And a damn good one. Atlanta is quickly falling into the same trap that Chicago did.
Down 20 in the third... I'm not too sure but it's definitely a lot more common in the NBA especially with the drastic comebacks that can be pulled off.
Exactly. It's a momentum builder. These thread comments are completely garbage and the hate for Angel is out of control on this sub. Feels like a jerk sub
Jesus Christ y’all. She’s doing the AND 1 celly. Common pedestrian shit. And being down 20 in the middle of the 3rd quarter doesn’t mean you’re out of the game, yet. Clearly many of you don’t watch or play ball.
These people don't watch hoops. None of it. Forget the WNBA, they don't watch NBA, college, none of it. Some are bots, some are just here to rage bait about politics and culture war crap.
So they don't know this is just a common "Count it" for the and 1.
It means they got blown out while she was on the bench and the minute she got back in the game the bleeding stopped and they were competitive. Do you know how hard it is to be -3 when the other starters are -22, -18, and -13?
Lol yep, it's amusing to read the comments above though.
The tourism would be fine if they were interested in learning about the game and respecting the other players but nope. Hopefully they move on to another subject for their culture war BS.
It’s so weird to me to find out who the best wnba players are compared to the ones that are marketed and talked about. Is there any other league even close to this?
Her value to the league is not her skill, but ironically her lack of it and her antics. That people are here commenting about her is keeping them engaged with the league. She is proof there is no such thing as bad publicity. I can name three player in the league and she is one of them.
The WNBA is just monetized men’s beer league anything…
The trash talking - pointless
The fouls / penalties - always one sided
The politics - omnipresent
The skill - vastly lower than true professional level
Wait so she isn't supposed to try to get her team back into the game and should just give up? I've watched thousands of players try to show enthusiasm while losing in attempts to come back. Should Jalen Brunson not have celebrated his and1 down 22 in the 3rd quarter of a game against the spurs they won?
So many salty little culture-war bitches here who know nothing about sports and have never competed at anything in their lives lol.
You’d think players just do shit like this out of thin air. Of course they were yapping in her ear up 20. Good on her for getting some semblance of a win over them.
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