Latest / Wicked Radio with Bill Adams / 7-31: Is The WNBA The Dumbest League In Sports History?
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- 0:04Speaker 1: I think you can tell if you follow me at all.
- 0:06Speaker 2: And then I'm a pretty big sports fan with all this
- 0:08Speaker 2: stuff behind me, and I'm wearing some kind of a
- 0:09Speaker 2: sports shirt or had every single day, or at least
- 0:12Speaker 2: eighty percent of the time.
- 0:13Speaker 1: So I'm in favor of all different kinds of sports.
- 0:15Speaker 1: All of it's great.
- 0:16Speaker 2: So when the NBA comes along, and I guess they've
- 0:19Speaker 2: been around a lot longer than I was aware, it's
- 0:21Speaker 2: like great more sports, awesome opportunities for female basketball players
- 0:26Speaker 2: coming out of college, fantastic. And I'm not going to
- 0:28Speaker 2: sit here and yelly and lie to you and say
- 0:30Speaker 2: that you know I've actually watched a whole WNBA game.
- 0:34Speaker 1: I haven't.
- 0:35Speaker 2: I can name like two of the teams in the league,
- 0:37Speaker 2: that's for sure, But I like that it's there, right.
- 0:40Speaker 2: But we have to ask a very serious question, now,
- 0:44Speaker 2: is this the dumbest league in the history of sports?
- 0:47Speaker 2: And I think clearly now this week's events, the answer
- 0:51Speaker 2: is yes. I mean, for a variety of reasons, you
- 0:53Speaker 2: can't talk about the NBA without talking about Caitlin Clark,
- 0:56Speaker 2: their main star, which state just let her get hacked
- 0:58Speaker 2: almost to death on the court with this is their
- 1:00Speaker 2: golden goose, the reason why most people are even aware
- 1:03Speaker 2: this league exists. And they've latter get attacked that one thing.
- 1:05Speaker 2: We've got a gambling issue they made disappeared this week.
- 1:08Speaker 2: That was one thing. But the granddaddy or grand mommy
- 1:11Speaker 2: of them all was attacking teen girls in support of
- 1:20Speaker 2: protecting women's sports.
- 1:22Speaker 1: Huh.
- 1:24Speaker 2: Protect They're in favor of protecting girls' sports in a
- 1:28Speaker 2: sports league for women, and they're getting attacked. Yeah, this
- 1:33Speaker 2: is the dumbest league in league history. We'll get to
- 1:35Speaker 2: it anyway. Thanks for finding me with Wicked Radio in
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- 1:48Speaker 2: Let's get right to it, and let's start with the
- 1:50Speaker 2: obvious before we get into the big issue that this
- 1:53Speaker 2: has caused. Because they've never been in the news so much,
- 1:55Speaker 2: which actually should be a good thing for them. You
- 1:57Speaker 2: should be able to take advantage of all their publicity
- 1:59Speaker 2: these but they're not.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Smart enough to do it because.
- 2:02Speaker 2: These are the most intolerant, jealous players, owners, and administrators
- 2:09Speaker 2: and commissioner ever seen in any league ever. You can't
- 2:13Speaker 2: talk about the WNBA without talking about Caitlin Clark. They're superstar.
- 2:17Speaker 2: You probably have least heard her name in passing if
- 2:19Speaker 2: you're not a fan already. The University of Iowa star.
- 2:22Speaker 2: I think she holds three college records for three pointers.
- 2:27Speaker 2: I think like individual game, season, career, all that good stuff.
- 2:31Speaker 2: Absolute superstar falls into the WNBA's lap.
- 2:34Speaker 1: A golden goose. Ratings go through the roof.
- 2:37Speaker 2: She gets drafted, she plays with her team, the Indiana
- 2:39Speaker 2: Fever Huge, Right, the only reason why most people, It's true,
- 2:43Speaker 2: let's be honest here, the only reason why most people
- 2:45Speaker 2: in this country are even aware of the WNBA. This
- 2:48Speaker 2: was a minor, minor, fringe outlier league before she came along.
- 2:53Speaker 1: It's true.
- 2:54Speaker 2: You may not want to hear that, but it's true.
- 2:56Speaker 2: What do they do out of jealousy, rage, wh anger hatred.
- 3:02Speaker 2: She gets hacked almost every night on the court by
- 3:05Speaker 2: these angry, angry, jealous creatures and they do nothing to
- 3:12Speaker 2: protect her. Like there have been a lot of calls
- 3:14Speaker 2: for her to just pack up leave. She could start
- 3:17Speaker 2: her own celebrity basketball league. It would put the WNBA
- 3:21Speaker 2: out of business. That this is how stupid they are
- 3:24Speaker 2: to have this golden goose fall in their lap, a
- 3:27Speaker 2: ratings winner, a huge marketing machine, and they let her
- 3:32Speaker 2: got attacked fairly or unfairly.
- 3:34Speaker 1: That's the first thing.
- 3:35Speaker 2: Then we had this little incident this week before we
- 3:37Speaker 2: get into the next story about girls sports. So we
- 3:39Speaker 2: had this little gambling issue they had this week that
- 3:41Speaker 2: they may disappear. Now, this is why it's so stupid.
- 3:43Speaker 2: Two of their players were making a little bet on
- 3:46Speaker 2: their own teams, you know, like Pete Rose did but
- 3:48Speaker 2: he wouldn't get into the Hall of Fame for it.
- 3:50Speaker 2: And they did a video of it. The league itself
- 3:53Speaker 2: posted this video on their social channels. The league posted
- 3:57Speaker 2: it before making it go away and did nothing about it.
- 4:01Speaker 2: No suspensions, know nothing. Completely stupid. This was the All
- 4:06Speaker 2: Star weekend.
- 4:07Speaker 3: You and Angel made a bet with each other on
- 4:08Speaker 3: this game?
- 4:09Speaker 4: Is that bettability?
- 4:10Speaker 3: This is not a rich rich you gotta say, you
- 4:13Speaker 3: gotta say this money, I'm gonna see you next week
- 4:15Speaker 3: on Wensday.
- 4:16Speaker 2: It's one thing if players do that, that's fine. A
- 4:18Speaker 2: little side bet is only like four hundred bucks whatever
- 4:20Speaker 2: it was, you know, And they're betting on their own
- 4:22Speaker 2: teams and not trying to try to throw a game.
- 4:24Speaker 1: Most normal leagues would suspend those players and.
- 4:26Speaker 2: Say, Okay, we have to make a statement year, you
- 4:28Speaker 2: have to go away for a couple of games.
- 4:29Speaker 1: Nope, not them.
- 4:30Speaker 2: They just made the video that they posted themselves disappear
- 4:34Speaker 2: just I don't know who's running this league, but whoever
- 4:38Speaker 2: it is, is incredibly stupid. But then we get to
- 4:41Speaker 2: the real issue here. It is so and it's kind
- 4:43Speaker 2: of connected to Caitlyn Clark in a way. Sophie Cunningham
- 4:47Speaker 2: you probably know her name, tall blonde girl, also plays
- 4:49Speaker 2: for that Indiana Fever team. She was the one that
- 4:51Speaker 2: made headlines for protecting one of the only people to
- 4:54Speaker 2: actually step up and physically protect Caitlyn Clark on the court.
- 4:58Speaker 2: Sophie Cunningham, she has guts, She has uh you know
- 5:04Speaker 2: what of steel to come out and say what she says. Well,
- 5:07Speaker 2: she said in an article in Sports Illustrated that common
- 5:11Speaker 2: sense should prevail and women, girls, especially in sports leagues,
- 5:17Speaker 2: shouldn't have to compete against biological men, common sense that
- 5:21Speaker 2: most of this country agrees with. Right not in the
- 5:24Speaker 2: league she plays with, She's gotten nothing but pushback and
- 5:27Speaker 2: hatred and vitriol from this supposedly inclusive league that's supposed
- 5:32Speaker 2: to stand up for women.
- 5:34Speaker 1: So just the other day they asked her about it again.
- 5:37Speaker 2: Would you like to backtrack off those comments, because how
- 5:40Speaker 2: can you dare how do you dare go against the
- 5:42Speaker 2: trans community in a women's league. Keep in mind, God Lover,
- 5:47Speaker 2: she did not back down at all. In fact, she
- 5:49Speaker 2: want to even further than this to say, now, I
- 5:51Speaker 2: support this is safe space for everybody, including trans people.
- 5:54Speaker 2: I just don't happen to think it's right for girls
- 5:57Speaker 2: to have to be forced to compete biological men.
- 6:00Speaker 1: It's not fair.
- 6:02Speaker 2: Why does their opportunity have to be attacked in the
- 6:06Speaker 2: name of inclusivity and diversity.
- 6:08Speaker 4: Here's what she said, wanting to protect young girls who
- 6:10Speaker 4: shouldn't have to go against biological men.
- 6:12Speaker 5: Just can you expand your viewpoint on that?
- 6:14Speaker 1: I mean, I think I said what I said.
- 6:15Speaker 4: I think it's kind of common sense, and I think
- 6:19Speaker 4: I'll always believe in that. I think it's really important
- 6:21Speaker 4: to protect children, and that's little girls who are also
- 6:25Speaker 4: involved in that category. And so I stand on what
- 6:28Speaker 4: I said, and I always believe that.
- 6:30Speaker 1: I love that she didn't back down.
- 6:32Speaker 2: I absolutely love that she didn't could have taken the
- 6:35Speaker 2: easy way out very easily and just said, you know,
- 6:38Speaker 2: my words were taken out of context. I didn't mean that. No,
- 6:40Speaker 2: she meant it. She wanted to protect girls. Again, keep
- 6:43Speaker 2: in mind, this is look what are we doing here.
- 6:46Speaker 2: She's in a league designed for women and opportunity to
- 6:50Speaker 2: play basketball professionally, and the controversial thing is seen as
- 6:55Speaker 2: her standing up for girls in sports. This is how
- 6:59Speaker 2: insane this entire thing is. So obviously she's become a
- 7:03Speaker 2: hero of girls in sports, as she should be.
- 7:07Speaker 1: That's common sense. Again.
- 7:08Speaker 2: So there's a clothing brand, there's a movement, there's support.
- 7:11Speaker 2: Now you've got again, there's another opportunity. The WNBA could
- 7:15Speaker 2: have to support this and grab hold of this opportunity
- 7:18Speaker 2: and embrace it and build their audience.
- 7:19Speaker 1: Nope, what have they met with?
- 7:21Speaker 2: Vitriol and hatred and jealousy and pushback and anger, just anger.
- 7:26Speaker 1: So here you go. Here's the big incident this week.
- 7:28Speaker 2: You probably heard a little bit about or you're deep
- 7:31Speaker 2: into it, and you know how ridiculous it is. These
- 7:33Speaker 2: two young girls went to a Seattle It's storm, I
- 7:37Speaker 2: think it is. I told you I'm not exactly an
- 7:39Speaker 2: expert in this league. I'm just aware of it. They
- 7:42Speaker 2: went to a Seattle Storm game because that team, Sophie
- 7:45Speaker 2: Cunningham's team Indiana Fever, were in town, so they wanted
- 7:49Speaker 2: to show up and support her. Now part of this
- 7:51Speaker 2: is there's a clothing brand called xx y Y or
- 7:54Speaker 2: E six whatever to support women's sports. It's actually founded
- 7:59Speaker 2: by the former seat EO of Levi's. She's a former
- 8:03Speaker 2: woke liberal and she says, I woke up and that's ridiculous. Now,
- 8:06Speaker 2: all designed to protect women at sports. They showed up
- 8:09Speaker 2: in those shirts with little signs thanking Sophie Cunningham, trying
- 8:14Speaker 2: to get her attention pretty good, brought court side seats.
- 8:17Speaker 2: What happens, the co owner of that Seattle team sees
- 8:21Speaker 2: it across the court, gets up, goes across the court
- 8:26Speaker 2: before the game and berates these two team girls who
- 8:29Speaker 2: were interested in protecting women's sports and just wanted to
- 8:31Speaker 2: thank Sophie Cunningham for standing up for them and others.
- 8:34Speaker 2: Berates them and says things like you're effing insane and
- 8:39Speaker 2: Jesus loves everyone. This is one of the owners of
- 8:44Speaker 2: the league, one of the owners in the league. Lo
- 8:46Speaker 2: and behold, we've got a Street video after the game
- 8:50Speaker 2: of an interview with these two girls themselves. One of
- 8:54Speaker 2: them had been crying. They sound a lot happier now,
- 8:56Speaker 2: but this is them talking about the actual incident that
- 8:59Speaker 2: they've faced for simply again go back to it supporting
- 9:02Speaker 2: girls in sports. This is just it's a little long,
- 9:05Speaker 2: but you got to hear them telling the story.
- 9:07Speaker 1: Tell me what happened when this woman approached you.
- 9:10Speaker 3: Well, we were just sitting there with their signs and
- 9:12Speaker 3: said like we love Sophie, like thank you something for
- 9:15Speaker 3: speaking up. And so we were holding on, just watching
- 9:17Speaker 3: the game again with you were being super great. We
- 9:19Speaker 3: hadn't said anything to anyone else, and you've been super respectful.
- 9:22Speaker 3: You're just holding our signs and sharing for both teams.
- 9:24Speaker 3: And this lady, older lady comes up to us and
- 9:27Speaker 3: she comes to us, and at first I think she's
- 9:28Speaker 3: gonna be nice, and she asks, like, what are you
- 9:31Speaker 3: guys doing something like yeah, and then it was like
- 9:34Speaker 3: Jesus loves everyone. That's what she told us, And I
- 9:37Speaker 3: was like, oh, I know, like I'm religious, like I know,
- 9:39Speaker 3: like I know yeah, And she's like, oh, I hope
- 9:42Speaker 3: Jesus can freak give you for what sin you've done
- 9:45Speaker 3: and like something like that. And then she told us
- 9:46Speaker 3: that we were e fing insane and she's like.
- 9:48Speaker 2: And she went, yeah, you guys, you're effing insane. So
- 9:53Speaker 2: this is obviously freaky for two teen girls to have
- 9:56Speaker 2: this sea monster come across the court and yell at
- 9:59Speaker 2: them like that. They knew what else she was thought
- 10:01Speaker 2: she was just a crazy person.
- 10:02Speaker 1: So here's the owner. What the league do?
- 10:04Speaker 2: So this owner, very wealthy woman co owner is suspended
- 10:08Speaker 2: five games and are dropping the bucket whatever, you know, nothing,
- 10:10Speaker 2: And that was it.
- 10:11Speaker 1: And then they just let it lie.
- 10:12Speaker 2: Because why they support that, They support that kind of response.
- 10:16Speaker 2: Here you are here, you actually are bringing in because
- 10:19Speaker 2: of what Sophie Cunningham did. You're bringing in more fans
- 10:22Speaker 2: to your league into your building. They paid for tickets,
- 10:25Speaker 2: and you berate them because they happened to disagree with you. Les,
- 10:29Speaker 2: be honest here, it's not about inclusiveivity. It's not about diversity,
- 10:35Speaker 2: because once you disagree with them and you bring in
- 10:37Speaker 2: something else, they don't care about you. They want you out,
- 10:39Speaker 2: They want you gone right, want you they don't care.
- 10:43Speaker 2: But what you think about they don't want you as
- 10:45Speaker 2: part of the organization. They wanted you part of the
- 10:47Speaker 2: fan base. And this is why I say, with all
- 10:49Speaker 2: of the other reasons as well, the WNBA is the
- 10:52Speaker 2: dumbest league, absolutely stupid in the history of all sports
- 10:56Speaker 2: that have ever come down the pike, all of them,
- 10:58Speaker 2: because they just don't get it. So blinded by their
- 11:01Speaker 2: rage and their vitriol and their jealousy, which by the way,
- 11:05Speaker 2: is all in the name of inclusivity and diversity, they
- 11:07Speaker 2: don't mean that because once you disagree with them, they
- 11:10Speaker 2: hate you. Well, this of course has brought out all
- 11:12Speaker 2: the usual characters who have been also in favor of
- 11:15Speaker 2: keeping men out of shouldn't be that big of a deal,
- 11:18Speaker 2: like JK. Rowling, you know, Harry Potter. Jk Rowling. She
- 11:22Speaker 2: chimed in on this Laura Ingram read her statement just
- 11:24Speaker 2: the other night.
- 11:25Speaker 5: Potter author JK. Rowling chimed in as well, saying, these
- 11:29Speaker 5: young women are heroines. They're peacefully protesting against the grotesque
- 11:33Speaker 5: unfairness of men playing in women's sport. The only people
- 11:37Speaker 5: who are bleeping insane here are those making a mockery
- 11:40Speaker 5: a fair sport for women and trying to bully girls
- 11:43Speaker 5: like this into silence.
- 11:44Speaker 2: It's a great statement to make, and she's obviously been you know,
- 11:47Speaker 2: you probably heard it for years.
- 11:49Speaker 1: Now we're gonna cancel JK. Rowling. Why Why? Because she's
- 11:53Speaker 1: standing up for girls?
- 11:54Speaker 2: No, you're you're a transphobe. No, she's just supporting women
- 11:59Speaker 2: in sports.
- 12:00Speaker 1: That's all it is.
- 12:00Speaker 2: Are women an opportunity? Why do Why do young girls
- 12:04Speaker 2: have to have their opportunity taken away in the name
- 12:05Speaker 2: of diversity. But I'm here to tell you that there's
- 12:08Speaker 2: always good news when you see through this. When you
- 12:10Speaker 2: give common sense an opportunity to succeed and to win,
- 12:14Speaker 2: it will. And now because of the public being aware
- 12:17Speaker 2: of this, it's starting to win.
- 12:19Speaker 1: So good job, Wnba. What have you done now? Now?
- 12:22Speaker 2: And you'll fight against this, I'm sure you will tooth
- 12:24Speaker 2: and nail because you're too stupid to understand it.
- 12:27Speaker 1: What have you done now? You've created a movement?
- 12:29Speaker 2: Now now because this has gotten so much press, it's
- 12:32Speaker 2: all over social media, it's even made mainstream headlines. Now
- 12:34Speaker 2: you've created a movement of young girls who are aware
- 12:38Speaker 2: of the issue number one and doing something about it.
- 12:40Speaker 2: And it's not afraid to speak out then, afraid of
- 12:42Speaker 2: being cant What the hell is afraid of being canceled
- 12:43Speaker 2: these days, So what stop with your name calling?
- 12:46Speaker 1: That doesn't work anymore. Common sense is prevailing.
- 12:49Speaker 4: Now.
- 12:49Speaker 2: You've got a movement of young girls in sports saying
- 12:53Speaker 2: we want we don't want our opportunities.
- 12:54Speaker 1: Taken away by men anymore. And good for them.
- 12:57Speaker 2: You got videos like this popping up everywhere. Grant, this
- 13:00Speaker 2: is part of a marketing thing. This was published by
- 13:02Speaker 2: that or promoted by that xxxy clothing brand supporting women
- 13:07Speaker 2: in sports.
- 13:08Speaker 1: But still the movement stands.
- 13:09Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you.
- 13:11Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
- 13:14Speaker 3: You sit up for us. You didn't have to. It
- 13:18Speaker 3: could have taken the easy way out.
- 13:19Speaker 4: You could have sat back and.
- 13:21Speaker 2: Enjoyed your fame.
- 13:24Speaker 4: You could have avoided the hate, taking the money and
- 13:27Speaker 4: quietly closed the door behind.
- 13:28Speaker 1: You, leaving girls like us to fight as well.
- 13:31Speaker 3: All but you didn't.
- 13:32Speaker 5: You spoke up.
- 13:33Speaker 4: You spoke up when it comes just to protecting young
- 13:35Speaker 4: girls in sports. I feel very strongly about that and.
- 13:38Speaker 3: Said what millions of women were thinking but were too.
- 13:40Speaker 2: Afraid to say. And when they try, and that's the
- 13:43Speaker 2: bottom line, isn't it. Now they're not afraid to say
- 13:45Speaker 2: because now they know it's kind of like group, the
- 13:46Speaker 2: repeats when you know other people are speaking up as well.
- 13:49Speaker 2: The WNBA has created such a huge buzz about this
- 13:55Speaker 2: unintentionally because they're too stupid to actually protect other women.
- 13:59Speaker 2: Because they have girls coming into their games now who
- 14:01Speaker 2: are interested in girls' only sports, you know, at the
- 14:04Speaker 2: lower level. They fought against this so hard they've created
- 14:09Speaker 2: an actual buzz about it. Are they smart enough to
- 14:11Speaker 2: take advantage of it.
- 14:12Speaker 1: And welcome them?
- 14:13Speaker 2: Come out with some sort of a you know, promo
- 14:16Speaker 2: video or an ad saying, oh, are welcome and we
- 14:19Speaker 2: do support women in suport. No, they're not smart enough
- 14:21Speaker 2: about this. What do they put with support? They support
- 14:24Speaker 2: a league commissioner and an owner like this Seattle Storm
- 14:28Speaker 2: lady Celeste Keaton is her name, who attacked young girls
- 14:31Speaker 2: at their game because they dared to stand up for
- 14:33Speaker 2: other girls in sports. How insane is this? And they're
- 14:36Speaker 2: too stupid to learn the lesson? This is the dumbest
- 14:39Speaker 2: They've had a golden multiple times now, a golden goose
- 14:43Speaker 2: opportunity fall in their lap, and they don't know what
- 14:45Speaker 2: to do about it.
- 14:46Speaker 1: What do they do about it? Because because it's a
- 14:49Speaker 1: different kind of thought, they fight against it tooth and
- 14:51Speaker 1: nail with rage and jealousy.
- 14:53Speaker 2: Dumbest league, dumbest league in the history of sports, of
- 14:56Speaker 2: all sports that have ever come down the bike. I
- 14:58Speaker 2: don't think they're smart enough to takeake advantage of this.
- 15:00Speaker 2: I don't think they're smart enough to actually welcome all
- 15:03Speaker 2: girls into their audience.
- 15:05Speaker 1: Too stupid. I honestly hope Sophie.
- 15:08Speaker 2: Cunningham, Caitlin Clark, people like that they'd actually leave and
- 15:12Speaker 2: start their own celebrity league or tournament or whatever it is,
- 15:15Speaker 2: and just bankrupt the WNBA. They honestly really should, and
- 15:18Speaker 2: then of course the headlines will be women's sports take
- 15:21Speaker 2: a hit. No wrong, wrong, biased woke organizations would take
- 15:28Speaker 2: a hit in that case, not women's sports because they're
- 15:30Speaker 2: trying to protect women's sports. It's unbelievable anyway. I didn't
- 15:34Speaker 2: expect to be talking about the WBA today, but here
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- 15:57Speaker 1: Appreciate you.
- 15:58Speaker 2: It's Friday. Have a wicked awesome weekend. Enjoy it, be safe,
- 16:02Speaker 2: have fun, watch whatever you want, keep an eye on
- 16:05Speaker 2: this w NB a.
- 16:06Speaker 1: Thing that's so dum. Make it a wicked awesome Friday.
- 16:09Speaker 1: I'll talk to you later.