Posted on 05/22/2024 8:03:23 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Honestly, I'd never even heard of Caitlin Clark until more than a month ago when I was visiting my childhood home and wound up watching the LSU-Iowa game with my father. During the game — the first college basketball game I'd watched ever — my dad pointed out Caitlin Clark and praised her as a star player who'd broken all sorts of records and was bound for the WNBA.
Sure enough, he was right, and now it seems I hear about Caitlin Clark all the time — including the controversy of her five-figure salary at the WNBA, which pales in comparison to the lowest salaries of star players in the league that people actually watch: the NBA.
But I digress. It was clear that Clark's talent had generated interest in women's basketball, including the WNBA. This is arguably a good thing because, right or wrong, the WNBA continues to struggle to attract interest from sports fans.
Naturally, the interest that Clark has generated in the WNBA has triggered the liberal media because of identity politics.
"Women’s basketball has never seen anything like Caitlin Clark, the sweet-shooting rookie guard for the WNBA’s Indiana Fever," writes Los Angeles Times staff writer Kevin Baxter. "She’s Taylor Swift with a jump shot, Mia Hamm in a singlet; a figure so transcendent she is changing her profession."
Baxter went on to note that more than 55,000 people showed up to watch her play a practice game last fall, her final college game drew 24 million TV viewers this spring, and more than three million people tuned into ESPN to watch her get drafted.
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"Women’s basketball has never seen anything like Caitlin Clark, the sweet-shooting rookie guard for the WNBA’s Indiana Fever," writes Los Angeles Times staff writer Kevin Baxter. "She’s Taylor Swift with a jump shot, Mia Hamm in a singlet; a figure so transcendent she is changing her profession."
Who wouldn't hate Taylor Swift, jump shot or not?
I wonder:
Do we really know that she's straight or is that just assumed?
And if the Black lesbians aren't filling the seats at WNBA games, is it time to bring "transwomen" (men) into the league? Who wouldn't want to see "Michelle Jordan" or "Laurie Bird" or "Shakira O'Neal" back on the court?
And Lesbian.
Easy, there, DonI, you might get canceled.
She’s getting the last laugh by getting multi million dollar endorsements while her competitors are making 50K a year with no endorsement. To me. That’s a win. The rest is noise.
You know that its coming and will probably happen sooner than later.
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Avoid ‘them’
That was Tyrus point last night on Gutfeld...the racists are shooting their own future down...
“Do we really know that she’s straight or is that just assumed?”
Who knows what goes on behind closed doors, but ...
Certainly cannot be the MOTHER.
So she is very DIVERSE from the general demographic of the team.
There's your DIVERSITY! Let's celebrate it, everyone!
Oh how they hate that good old white bread Amerocan giorl who is not ony a fantastic athlete, buta;so a pretty decent person.
She is a shining light. And these sodomites want to diminish her?
Nah! The love for Caitlin is going ballistic.
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