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To: nickcarraway

FAKE NEWS - She’s White, and Straight.


2 posted on 06/22/2024 5:58:10 PM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL; Libloather

Two of the 11 players on the Olympic team, Sabrina Ionescu and Kelsey Plum, are straight and white, one white player is a lesbian. Some of the black players are straight (Napheesa Collier is married to a white man.), and some it doesn’t say what they are.


4 posted on 06/22/2024 6:08:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: BobL

In addition to being white and straight, she is also Catholic. The trifecta.


19 posted on 06/22/2024 7:01:36 PM PDT by libertymaker
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To: BobL

Because of Olympic Rules regarding 3x3 teams. I don’t believe Clark is eligible for the team.

“For FIBA, basketball’s global organisation, 3x3 has been about ‘inclusion’. It’s theoretically easier to organise a competitive 3x3 team than a competitive 5-on-5 team because you need fewer players and less infrastructure. So they’ve made efforts to encourage qualification from a wider group of nations, and to make it a somewhat separate enterprise from 5-on-5. So you can’t just parachute in anyone - they must have at least a minimal history with 3x3.”

“Essentially, at least two of the four players have to be ranked in the country’s top-10 players in the 3x3 rankings; the remaining players must have participated in at least one FIBA 3x3 Official Competition between Jan. 1, 2023 and June 24, 2024.”


25 posted on 06/22/2024 11:48:46 PM PDT by euclid216
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