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NBA dancers reveal decades-long culture of 'brainwashing,' unfair pay and eating disorders
Yahoo ^ | December 10, 2018 | Abby Haglage

Posted on 12/10/2018 1:09:15 PM PST by C19fan

Of all the things that Lauren Herington remembers about her year as an NBA dancer, it’s the broom closet that rattles her most. “My coach would make me sit in there before games and think about if I was doing everything to be able to lose weight,” Lauren, a dancer for the Milwaukee Bucks from 2013 to 2014, recalls for Yahoo Lifestyle. “You know, basically like a child in time-out.” When her coach thought she looked “questionable” weight-wise, Lauren says, she’d instruct the dancer to put on her spandex uniform in order to perform a “jiggle test” in front of the team. “She’d come up and grab underneath my butt or the side of my belly,” Lauren, then 18, remembers. “She’d be like, ‘Lose 5 pounds by tomorrow, and you’ll be fine.’”

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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: abuse; basketball; nba; nbadancer
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Poor babies. We all know why you were a NBA dancer. The opportunity to meet rich single men.
1 posted on 12/10/2018 1:09:15 PM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Good grief, how are we to judge the veracity of this woman’s claims when there are no pictures?


2 posted on 12/10/2018 1:15:31 PM PST by Robwin (very)
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To: C19fan

They should quit forcing these women to be cheerleaders.

It’s immoral for them forced into this slavery.


3 posted on 12/10/2018 1:17:40 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Robwin

Need topless shots to be sure.


4 posted on 12/10/2018 1:18:21 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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To: Robwin


5 posted on 12/10/2018 1:23:33 PM PST by EEGator
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie


6 posted on 12/10/2018 1:26:27 PM PST by EEGator
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To: C19fan

Thanks to Luka, I’m actually excited about the NBA for the first time in years.


7 posted on 12/10/2018 1:28:12 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

Maybe not any more. Thank goodness now it is not in style to be stick skinny! They have to be fit to do those cheers and curves are in again, yay. I’m sure the booty would be appreciated these days.


8 posted on 12/10/2018 1:29:20 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: C19fan

I can already tell this will be a good thread.


9 posted on 12/10/2018 1:29:51 PM PST by Mr. Mohasky (Common sense in a world lacking any, will be perceived & construed as an extreme point of view.)
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To: EEGator

I would personally go into that closet with her to comfort her during that ordeal


10 posted on 12/10/2018 1:30:35 PM PST by rdcbn
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To: rdcbn

You have a kind soul.


11 posted on 12/10/2018 1:32:29 PM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Thank you, EEGator. You have just provided indisputable proof that someone somewhere is not guilty of something.


12 posted on 12/10/2018 1:33:03 PM PST by Robwin (very)
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To: Robwin

I am a man of the people.


13 posted on 12/10/2018 1:34:18 PM PST by EEGator
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That’s just the kind of guy I am.

Wouldn't’t want her to get cold either

14 posted on 12/10/2018 1:37:16 PM PST by rdcbn
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There is nothing wrong with a little "jiggle", or a wiggle when she walks, or a giggle when she talks.

That's what I like.

15 posted on 12/10/2018 1:37:21 PM PST by AF_Blue ("Lie? Me? Never! The truth is far too much fun." - Capt. J.A.S. Hook)
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I want the job with a pro cheerleader team that requires consoling the candidates who are cut during training camp. I understand their hurt and anguish.


16 posted on 12/10/2018 1:39:43 PM PST by nickedknack
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To: Lazamataz

The jiggle test should be performed by an independent judge. Laz?


17 posted on 12/10/2018 1:50:09 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: C19fan

Let me know when they put a Gun to their Heads and make them take the Job.

Until then, STHU or grab a Pole.


18 posted on 12/10/2018 1:51:56 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: C19fan

All these girls do this by choice.

If it’s really such a hardship then don’t be a cheerleader/dancer. Do something else. The pay is mere pocket money so all of them have other jobs, real jobs, if you will.

If it’s too hard then just don’t do it, quit the team.


19 posted on 12/10/2018 1:51:59 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: C19fan

and rich married men.


20 posted on 12/10/2018 1:53:21 PM PST by Zathras
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