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Many social media users blasted the WNBA after it released a statement calling fans “racist” and threatening to call the police on them.
The league issued a statement slamming fans for “racist,” “derogatory,” and “threatening” behavior and vowed to put an end to it by “monitoring” fans in the stands and online.
“The WNBA is a competitive league with some of the most elite athletes in the world,” the league’s statement read. “While we welcome a growing fan base, the WNBA will not tolerate racist, derogatory, or threatening comments made about players, teams, and anyone affiliated with the league. League security is actively monitoring threat-related activity and will work directly with teams and arenas to take appropriate measures, to include involving law enforcement, as necessary.
The league’s statement followed a tirade by Connecticut Sun All-Star Alyssa Thomas, who bemoaned “racist” fans during her team’s two playoff games against the Indiana Fever and its star rookie Caitlin Clark.
Despite the claims by some players that they have suffered “death threats,” neither the leagues nor any particular team has released any examples of these threats.
Social media users and WNBA fans were not amused at the league calling them all racists. Many jumped on the WNBA’s X post to clap back at the league’s broadside at fans.
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WNBA needs a new commissioner I’m sorry a real commissioner would not have let it get to the point where you’re putting out vague statements like this aimed at… who? Who are you talking to!?
It's like bizarro world Jackie Robinson here but with women and the white person getting discriminated against by intolerant LGBTQ+ bigots on the field! We all see it. Do better!
Is this a JOKE??!!!??
You are more concerned about comments than about the blatant attacks on the only star player you have that is bringing fans to the games
You are pathetic
These attacks on Caitlin Clark should be stopped with enforced severe penalties against the attackers
Your players are abusing @CaitlinClark22 like they are professional wrestlers and your officials are not protecting her.
The only potential racism I see is against Clark, but more than racism it is jealousy and envy at the attention she gets that they think they too deserve.
What about on-court attacks? No blood no foul?
Where was this all season with the violence against Caitlin Clark?
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What idiots. Before Caitlin Clark came into the league, they couldn't give away seats to watch a WNBA game. Now that she's packing the seats, they lose their minds because she's white. This league is doomed to fail.
It's a pretty easy prediction that no CC no crowds. The playoffs will nosedive in attendance without the most talented woman in basketball playing.
The cure for this? Stop watching
I agree!
If anything, the entire industry has been using racist talking points since the rise of Clark.
It's just below the surface, whether talking about why she won't succeed in the wnba, or why she doesn't deserve the MVP.
Boycott and move on. End of Story.
I am now at the belief that race is now pushed by pathetic people who will do ANYTHING for attention!
It’s all about making headlines and that’s it!
I’ve been studying a book” why social Justice is not biblical justice” they are aiming at something much greater than headlines. To the wnba: bye
Check out a book called Confessions of a Media Manipulator.
The folks in Marketing and Promotions know if they don't generate emotion. Without emotion... no one would ever pay attention.
The race stuff is a hot button. So they will play that card until people stop reacting to it.
They are doing it to get attention. I am in the marketing and sales game myself.
Hahaha so their audience numbers go back to zero then
Nobody is going to watch since the Fever is eliminated. We need to keep the spotlight on attendance and 👀 viewership - guarantee it plunges
Whatever they do wouldn't affect me because i do not support or follow that garbage🤷♂️
The funny part is that I never had any interest in the WNBA (or basketball, in general, save for Michael Jordan way back when) until I saw a post here about CC. I started watching her and she was exciting. But my enjoyment quickly waned when I saw how she was treated by the bitches -- and that's me using the nice word -- in the league.
Between the bullshit with Angel Reese (what a c-word that piece of shit is), Sheryl Swoopes or whoever that racist bitch is, and everyone in the league trying to fucking hurt CC in every game while her coach, teammates, and the refs stand around and let it happen without complaint, it has turned me off. That bitch from Atlanta with her rant about how "they not like us" when talking about CC fans was the final straw--that and that butch beast trying to use her fake claws to tear out CC's eyeball.
They can keep their racist bullshit sport. It's boring, anyway, unless CC is playing. I hope they fucking starve and CC goes somewhere she's appreciated--if she stays in the WNBA, she won't survive long, because someone will shank her during a game one day, then accuse her of flopping. But what else would you expect from a bunch of thug bitches with attitudes.
Women Karens in professional sports?
Wait…are we allowed to call it “women’s “ sports? Isn’t that defining something we aren’t allowed to define? So confused.
They could put all men on their team, call them women, and win. HA!
Griner is a man.
They really should shut up and be grateful to even exist.
Amen!
Better than sexist, I should think.
Imagine what woman’s sports would be like if there was suddenly a massive uptick in anti-lesbianism.
Obviously not all of them, but they seem especially prevalent in pro basketball and all over softball.
This is the one time where I'd like to see several "women" join them that are bigger than the tranny that got arrested in Russia. These obnoxious lesbians like to tout how the "physicality" (i.e., assault on CC) is too much for some? See how they like it when a 200 lb man flattens their asses and leaves them sobbing on the court.