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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Like I said, she should just take the Ice Cube money and run. Fuck 'em. Let the WNBA drift back into obscurity where it belongs. No one gives a fuck about Angel Reese if it wasn't for Caitlin Clark.

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Is it just me thinking the black girls don't like her?

The "she ain't shit" contingent is winning because the stats say so. Maybe she ain't shit.

THE LEAGUE NEEDS ATTENTION , WHY DOESNT ANYONE WRITE ABOUT US ???
NO NOT LIKE THAT !!

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

How did Crumbs DiCaro ever reconcile "women will always come together to uplift and support other women" with "women can be just as competitive as men"? Because all these "[thwack], that's what you get for being a white heterosexual" incidents don't exactly feel like an uplifting and universal sisterhood.

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White men are following a biological female sport so they can find reasons to say they've been victimized. Sad!

Caitlin Clark is great for the WNBA. You would think that all of the old sports fans and wrestling fans would understand the importance of antagonists to compelling storylines. A little racially charged catty behavior is more interesting than women blowing kisses to the #1 draft pick on a 1 win team.

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Why do the Balcks hate Caitlyn?

Stay tuned to find out

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Hopefully, she ain't shit and we can all go back to womens' soccer. Our first love.

The racial angle helped sell Bird and Magic. The WNBA would love to get something similar with Clark and Reese. Bird was the tough lunch pail guy. Magic was the cool and charismatic guy. Similar dynamics exists between Clark and Reese. The wihtes generally embraced Bird and the minorities generally embraced Magic. A lot of merchandise and ads were sold. Fans got a great product too.

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This is true. I started watching the NBA when I was about 6 or 7 years old. I used to hear a lot of people in the neighborhood say disparaging stuff about Larry Bird as a player and often wondered why that happened to be. Then I found out that he was white and then it began to register.
For a long time "da blacks" didn’t want to give Bird credit for being a great player. Tried to make him out to be just another "Great White Hope". But he was so good that after awhile they had no choice but to acknowledge that he was in fact a great player. It was undeniable at that point.

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She's average out of the gate. So was rookie victor webeyama yet nobody treated him like trash. It's clear racism, stemming from jealousy.

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Yeah, the women seem a lot more petty than the men. Luka and Joker are accepted as legit superstars. More and more Euros are coming in the future to dominate. When will white American men start to dominate the European football leagues?

I also know from experience, if you give the butterface attention, the hot girls will turn into vapid shitholes.

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On the one hard they did far worse to Jordan, on the other hand that was forever ago.

Bird got respect from his peers because, though he was a hick from French Lick, he had a lotta hood in him. On the court. Race is "a thing" on the court. Always has been. But it's not a hate thing(most of the time), it's a haze thing. Get your business done and you'll get respect.

Portnoy yelling "fly commercial" is so stupid and so off point. He should know better. He's competitive.

So what? That's not a rubber meeting the road issue. The issue is "is she any good?"
TBD.

Different angle here though. The WNBA is trying to sell sex appeal to straight men. Reese and Brink have it. Clark, no.

The lesbo demo isn't large enough for a successful league.

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Yep! The key is to "earn" The respect. I don't watch a lot of women's hoops, but if she is great, all of this stuff will go out of the window. I think some of the players are pissed that she has been handed so much without ever proving anything too.
And there is some merit to that. And that sort of thing transcends race too. It's something that we are also seeing with respect to Bronny James

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Sex appeal has never and will never work in women’s sports. There’s alway been hot women playing basketball and nobody cared. They cared (for now) when Clark hit logo 3s and scored at will. Elena Delle Donne was just as hot as Brink.

It doesn't work in basketball because of the baggy shorts that the women wear. It's always worked in Gymnastics, Tennis, Figure Skating and Track however.
My girl Katarina Witt was one of the baddest women you'd ever want to see when I was a Ute!

And even Crazy Women like Tonya Harding had a big ass on her.

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Almost no men watch women’s figure skating. Women gymnasts are mostly underage. Nobody watches track and field. If the WNBA wants to aim for the success of women’s tennis, that’s great.

Those sports are always huge come Olympic time. And some of the highest paid athletes in history are women that participate in those sports. Simone Biles annual earnings and net worth can lock up with most male athletes in any sport currently.

One of the reasons that. Serena Williams used to garner as much attention as she did earlier in her career is because she had a tremendous body on her. Jennifer Capriati got endorsements not only because of her game, but also because of her looks too

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I think they're trying to sell the product in a multitude of ways. If one resonates with the public more, they'll lean into that. Outside of some great soccer teams, I don't recall getting a female team sport shoved down my throat by the media.

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They appear to have media in marketing dollars behind them in an UNPRECEDENTED way.

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There have been some hot women soccer players at times but I think tennis is the only women’s sport where sex sells above talent.

Anna Kournikova knew that.

Yes, men wanting to fuck a female athlete or entertainer is good for their pockets. Men can't generally get by solely because females think of them while having sex. They need to have some talent too.

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Hell yeah!

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