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Reese Angel Reese calls out conservative after saying players could sit out WNBA games to negotiate higher salaries
Fox News ^ | March 8, 2025 | Jackson Thompson

Posted on 03/09/2025 5:28:57 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

WNBA player Angel Reese ignited a social media firestorm after claiming players are prepared to sit out games to demand higher salaries during her podcast Friday.

Reese and fellow WNBA player DiJonai Carrington addressed the next WNBA collective bargaining agreement.

"I've got to get in the meetings because I'm hearing like, 'If y'all don't give us what we want, we sitting out,'" Reese said.

Carrington added, "That's a possibility."

Reese has griped about her financial situation in the past.

"The WNBA don't pay my bills at all. I don't even think it pays one of my bills. Literally," Reese said.

Reese's comments incited heated debate on social media about a WNBA player strike resulting in higher salaries. The WNBA has never turned a profit in its existence and has been subsidized by the NBA.

Reese got in on the discussion when she called out conservative influencer AKA on X for a post that Reese said falsely claimed she demanded to be paid as much as NBA players.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: angelreese; basketball; dijonaicarrington; sportsball; sportsballhero; thugball; wnba
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1 posted on 03/09/2025 5:28:57 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Hon, nobody cares.


2 posted on 03/09/2025 5:30:18 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

WNBA had a moment. They had a chance. They could have become a hot new sport, with a big star. But they decided to just whup dat white girl’s ass instead. At this point, I’d say they are all overpaid and their sport needs to die.


3 posted on 03/09/2025 5:31:33 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: MinorityRepublican

Beat up your white girl pinata some more, Angel.

And make me a sammich.


4 posted on 03/09/2025 5:31:36 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: MinorityRepublican

5 posted on 03/09/2025 5:31:44 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The job is important, relatively, the players are not. Sitting out can only result in exit from the game to be replaced by somebody who wants to play the game.

If WNBA wants more money, give a game that entertains people.


6 posted on 03/09/2025 5:32:09 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I have invented blackened salmon salad by baking it in the oven for too long. )
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To: MinorityRepublican
"The WNBA don't pay my bills at all. I don't even think it pays one of my bills. Literally," Reese said.

Then, find other work.

Any paycheck she's getting is literally charity since the WNBA has never turned a profit.

7 posted on 03/09/2025 5:32:11 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: MinorityRepublican

Still having that period once a month Reese? If not, join the NBA and make some real money.


8 posted on 03/09/2025 5:33:36 PM PDT by Fungi
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But they decided to just whup dat white girl’s ass instead.

Not only that but she decided to "bend the knee".

So I predict that CC won't be drawing the fans she like she did last year in her WNBA debut and while she was playing at Iowa.

9 posted on 03/09/2025 5:34:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Carrington is trouble. A real gangsta


10 posted on 03/09/2025 5:35:48 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Quit and get another job. Simple. 🤓


11 posted on 03/09/2025 5:36:28 PM PDT by alstewartfan (Child slavery, rape and drug OD's mean nothing to Roberts and Barrett. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Is she sharing the proceeds from her namesake McDonald’s meal campaign? But she expects excessive payment for doing something almost no one wants to watch and won’t be hurt herself by sitting out.


12 posted on 03/09/2025 5:38:05 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: alstewartfan

She/he/it lost me at “we sitting out.”


13 posted on 03/09/2025 5:40:48 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: MinorityRepublican

Wait a minute... So what you’re saying is... That there’s a woman’s basketball league and they actually ‘pay’ the players to play in it???

That’s astounding... Are any of them actually women?


14 posted on 03/09/2025 5:41:25 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

future pole dancer (not that there’s anything wrong with that)


15 posted on 03/09/2025 5:41:29 PM PDT by Third Person
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To: MinorityRepublican

You go, girl.


16 posted on 03/09/2025 5:41:44 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
If the WNBA stopped playing, would anyone notice?

17 posted on 03/09/2025 5:42:28 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Clark is cooked, self-inflicted burn


18 posted on 03/09/2025 5:43:23 PM PDT by Third Person
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To: MinorityRepublican

You have nothing to offer. Nobody watches WNBA. Except maybe lesbians


19 posted on 03/09/2025 5:45:38 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Third Person

Too bad. Because Clark is a star. And a part of her appeal is that all the fans could relate to her. Used to, anyway.


20 posted on 03/09/2025 5:45:55 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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