Posted on 02/26/2021 11:01:46 PM PST by conservative98
First, WNBA players campaigned to oust Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loeffler from her seat in the Senate. Now, after months of pressure from players who said Loeffler’s values didn’t fit with the WNBA’s, Loeffler is out of the league, too.
The WNBA announced Friday that Loeffler and co-owner Mary Brock sold the team to a three-person investor group that includes former Dream star Renee Montgomery. Larry Gottesdiener, chairman of real estate firm Northland, and Suzanne Abair, Northland’s chief operating officer, also will share ownership of the team. The WNBA’s and NBA’s boards of governors unanimously approved the sale, the league said. Terms were not disclosed.
The transition from Loeffler, the former Republican senator from Georgia who became an enemy of the players after speaking out against Black Lives Matter, to Montgomery, who opted out of last season to focus on social justice, marks another milestone in an era of athlete empowerment.
“You have Suzanne and I who are going to be leading the forefront on the day-to-day, and that’s a win for women’s sports; that’s a win for women’s basketball. That shows a lot of representation,” Montgomery said. “All the things that we wanted as players, it’s happening here in Atlanta.”
The sale was quickly celebrated by the WNBA players who pushed for it.
“It is time for the women of the Atlanta Dream and their fans to have an opportunity to heal and move forward. It is our fervent wish that we shall never see again such an abuse of power and arrogant display of privilege,” Women’s National Basketball Players Association Executive Director Terri Jackson said in a statement.
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Kelly got rid of a financial milestone.
That league of black lesbians, that earn less than a mail carrier, is a money loser.
They have no audience, either in person or on TV, and the league has been a consistent money loser.
There is no chance that the league will become profitable, UNLESS, they let the transgender, ex NBA players into the league and then get the freak crowd as viewers.
They still won't turn a profit.
“At least they were able to sell. A year from now anything owned by anyone who does not toe the party line will simply be expropriated in civil forfeiture.”
Or pretty much valueless, due to regulations (like the inability to build on land you bought for that purpose), or due to the dollar collapsing and China taking over as the reserve currency. Or do to people simply trying to hunker-down, as Democrat tribes are permitted to terrorize those who they consider their enemies (think South Africa).
A few years ago, FReepers could tell sarcasm without the "S/OFF" tag, but today, if you don't flag it, someone will either be offended, upset, won't get it or just plain scratch themselves out of ignorance.
I've taken to adding the "S/OFF" tag to some other FReepers posts just to give them a little relief and cover.
I hope they crash and burn.
Kelly Loeffler will be far better off investing her money in stuff that actually makes sense.
Unbelievable that this sale will actually benefit Loeffler by paying her for declining assets. TWNBA with multisex bathrooms!
The WNBA loses money every single year.
They exist because the NBA gives them money.
I guarantee a high school boy’s team I watched would destroy the WNBA All Star team.
Inferior products, inferior results.
Perhaps “LeBronda James” going for 100 points, 55 boards, and 0 assists...
AND.....They use a smaller ball and want to be considered equal.
I did not know that
I actually have a lesbian couple in my extended family....each products of abuse from a male relative
They have been together since 1960 ...one is 80 and the other is 90
Very old school and country.....yet they’ve worked hard and have nice home in a safe area
And huge Trump supporters....however they and I are aware they are the exceptions to the rule
Blue haired church ladies....
It’s funny the more masculine has actually grown in her older years into a smooth skinned handsome woman who doesn’t show her age and has good health overalll ...yet as young woman she was much more masculine and apparent...she is the younger of the pair and is our extended family historian ...she knows much I try to remember...
I think both were more repelled by sex with men than attracted to women.....though I could be wrong...it is not talked about....no hear me roar from them
They have been writing me about what will Trump say tomorow
Ain’t that the truth...
I get more entertainment watching Ukrainian & Russian weight lifters than watching WNBA.
Take away the nba subsidy from the wnba and the league would fold faster than a cheap suit.
Nobody ever asks: "Heal from what? Show me where that mean blonde white lady hurt you."
I am waiting for the pendulum to swing back the other way. The way things are going I hope it will not be to long.
Transitioning from the Women's WNBA to the Tranny (TNBA?) might actually increase the viewer base. Who watches the WNBA? It's filler programming.
Different but connected hypocrisy in the WNBA...
Straight WNBA star: Lesbian culture broke my spirit
By Mark W. SanchezFebruary 21, 201
Candice Wiggins was a college star at Stanford, the third pick of the 2008 WNBA draft and a 2011 champion. And at the mountaintop of her basketball career, her sexuality marred the moment.
There is a “very, very harmful” culture running throughout the WNBA, she says, which saw her get bullied during her eight-year career because she is heterosexual.
Wiggins, who last played in the league in 2015, said she retired prematurely to leave a league that she estimated — wildly — is 98 percent lesbian, and which is played in such isolation that it weighs on the people on the court.
“It wasn’t like my dreams came true in the WNBA. It was quite the opposite,” Wiggins said in an extensive San Diego Tribune story published Monday. “… I wanted to play two more seasons of WNBA, but the experience didn’t lend itself to my mental state. It was a depressing state in the WNBA. It’s not watched. Our value is diminished. It can be quite hard. I didn’t like the culture inside the WNBA, and without revealing too much, it was toxic for me. … My spirit was being broken.”
The 30-year-old couldn’t take it anymore — being harassed for being straight and fighting for attention in a league that is starved.
“Me being heterosexual and straight, and being vocal in my identity as a straight woman was huge,” Wiggins said. “I would say 98 percent of the women in the WNBA are gay women. It was a conformist type of place. There was a whole different set of rules they [the other players] could apply.”
Wiggins, who played for the Lynx, Shock, Sparks and Liberty, claimed the issues revolve around the lack of attention the league has garnered as the WNBA struggles with ticket sales and TV ratings. For the 2016 season, the WNBA said its average attendance was 7,655 — its highest since 2011.
“There was a lot of jealousy and competition, and we’re all fighting for crumbs,” Wiggins said. “The way I looked, the way I played – those things contributed to the tension.
“People were deliberately trying to hurt me all of the time. I had never been called the B-word so many times in my life than I was in my rookie season. I’d never been thrown to the ground so much. The message was: ‘We want you to know we don’t like you.’ “
https://nypost.com/2017/02/21/retired-wnba-star-i-was-tormented-for-not-being-gay/
If “Black Lives Matter” had been named “Marxists Are US” - a more apt description - would all this BS still be happening?
Actually, men’s soccer makes vastly more money than men’s basketball will ever make. Worldwide.
It’s not even close. You are going to need to watch the men’s soccer world cup at some time.
I wouldn’t doubt that - but apparently the US women soccer league can’t get the Mexican men’s league to pay their bills.
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