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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Just think if Wilt was still around, and could trans, and come out of retirement.
Lots of ‘possibilities’.
Yeah, she's heterosexual.
Recall that the NFL refused to allow Rush Limbaugh to buy into a football team.
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