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Hoops for Hotties WNBA Yearbook: Biggest Scandals, Best Couples & Messiest Moments + More · Hoops for Hotties

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SPEAKER_00: Today we have a very fun hoops for Hoddies live show.
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SPEAKER_00: Guys, before I get into today's show, I just want to say how exciting was the blue wave.
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SPEAKER_00: How exciting was the blue wave?
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SPEAKER_00: Uh when me and my boyfriend went to vote, I was just telling him, I was like, I just had so little hope because I have so much PTSD from being disappointed in elections, specifically, you know, the one.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: And I was crashing out after that last one.
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SPEAKER_00: Like I, it was just heartbreaking to me.
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SPEAKER_00: It really put me in a space of like political fatigue.
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SPEAKER_00: I was just down bad and hurt, but I still showed up, you know, me and my man.
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SPEAKER_00: We put we put we cast our votes, and to get the results that we did, I live in the state with the first black woman governor ever in the history of the United States of America.
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SPEAKER_00: I know that's fucking right, Keisha.
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SPEAKER_00: So I'm feeling really good.
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SPEAKER_00: The blue wave got me in a good mood.
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SPEAKER_00: Blue hearts in the chat.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, Maya, yes, Juliet, yes, Bree.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_00: Sibyl Liana said, I feel like we all healed a little.
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SPEAKER_00: I know, I love that.
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SPEAKER_00: And I love bringing up Living Out at the beginning of the show to weed out all of these scary ass people who would be mad at that because today we are going to be talking about the WNBA.
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SPEAKER_00: But without further ado, let's get started.
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SPEAKER_00: All right, hot girls, welcome to the Hoops for Huddies Live Show.
2:05
SPEAKER_00: My name is Mariah Rose.
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SPEAKER_00: I am your host and I am the teacher in the classroom for all things sports for the girls, the gays of the days, and the straightmen who don't admit they're not they don't know anything about sports, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: I never flubbed my line.
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SPEAKER_00: The fuck?
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SPEAKER_00: Um, today we are going to be talking all things WNBA because the season is over! The season is over.
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SPEAKER_00: And I haven't seen you guys since the finals ended.
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SPEAKER_00: And no, we aren't gonna spend the entire time debriefing the finals.
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SPEAKER_00: We are going to mention it briefly, but this is gonna be a very fun show.
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SPEAKER_00: Where if you didn't watch the WNBA this season, but you were seeing all of the controversy and the drama, and you you know a thing or two.
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SPEAKER_00: We are going to be catching up on all of the crazy ass shit that went down this WNBA season.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think you might have forgotten about a lot of it.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna be giving you some of my opinions.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, there is a lot going on, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: We're back in the classroom, and I'm going to treat this sort of as the yearbook for Hoops for Hotties.
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SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_00: Like, this is this is the end of year yearbook.
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SPEAKER_00: Who did well, who didn't.
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SPEAKER_00: We're gonna give you superlatives at the end that were voted on by the Hotties and my broadcast channel on the Hoops for Hotties Instagram page.
3:16
SPEAKER_00: So if you if you think I'm being messy, don't blame me.
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SPEAKER_00: Blame the Hotties.
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SPEAKER_00: We had breakups, cheating allegations, Twitter beef, players getting into it on the court, coaches getting suspended, record-breaking performances, and somehow an expansion team ended up winning the championship.
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SPEAKER_00: So today we're going through all the crazy things that happened in the WNBA this year: the mess, the drama, the incredible basketball, the historical moments, and everything in between.
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SPEAKER_00: And at the end of class, I will be revealing the winners for our first annual Hoops for Hotties Yearbook superlatives voted on by you, the Hotties.
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SPEAKER_00: Some of these results are hilarious, some of them are very messy and well-deserved, and some y'all have some explaining to do, but we'll get to that at the end of the show, okay?
3:57
SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about so how we're gonna break this down, right?
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SPEAKER_00: We're not gonna go in chronological order.
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SPEAKER_00: We're not gonna go in chartological order.
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SPEAKER_00: We're gonna go in periods, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: Because we're in class.
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SPEAKER_00: And our first period is the WNBA group chat getting leaked.
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SPEAKER_00: We're talking about the beef, the breakups, and the moments that had the internet talking.
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SPEAKER_00: First lesson is DJ Carrington and Nelissa Smith's breakup going public.
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SPEAKER_00: So during All-Star Weekend, DJ Carrington publicly accused her former partner, Nelissa Smith, of cheating.
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SPEAKER_00: And she told us with who?
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SPEAKER_00: Deja Kelly, Aliyah Nye, and other women.
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SPEAKER_00: The allegations were posted on threads and quickly spread across WNBA social media.
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SPEAKER_00: And the accusations themselves weren't indefinitely established, but the public nature of the post turned a private relationship into one of the biggest off-court conversations of the season.
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SPEAKER_00: Dejaine, like I hung over in the airport coming back from All-Star Weekend.
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SPEAKER_00: And like, guys, DeJanae gone tweet, she cheated on me specifically with Deja Kelly and Aliy and I.
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SPEAKER_00: These are other women who are involved in the WBA.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, she, other basketball players.
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SPEAKER_00: Name dropping is crazy.
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SPEAKER_00: Dejanae had us all gagged with that one.
5:14
SPEAKER_00: My question is, and let me know what you guys think in the chat.
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SPEAKER_00: Is there a difference between WNBA fans discussing players' personal lives and fans crossing boundaries?
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SPEAKER_00: Like, did DJ cross a boundary by doing that?
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SPEAKER_00: And why does relationship drama become such a major major part of women's basketball discourse?
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SPEAKER_00: Is it because they're dating people who are actually in the league, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Like, I mean, it's T.
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SPEAKER_00: It's interesting.
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SPEAKER_00: And do you guys think that that is something that's helping the league or hurting it?
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SPEAKER_00: Let me know what you think in the chat.
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SPEAKER_00: But I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: It's very like interesting.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, GB said, Deja Kelly is bad though, so it's understandable.
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SPEAKER_00: See, y'all messy as fuck.
5:51
SPEAKER_00: Y'all messy as fuck.
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SPEAKER_00: And people in the chat think that it's helping the WNBA that there's this like relationship drama.
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SPEAKER_00: And a lot of people say it makes them not take the W seriously.
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SPEAKER_00: And I just cannot understand that.
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SPEAKER_00: I can't understand that.
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SPEAKER_00: Because when the NBA is in a space where LeBron James is drinking wine on the court and Jalen Brown is saying he has beef and lamb chops, or not beef and lamb chops, lamb chops and gravy instead of beef with Jason Tatum.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, this is happen, this happens in sports everywhere.
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SPEAKER_00: So I think, I think it helps, you know.
6:18
SPEAKER_00: But the next piece of drama I want to talk about and debrief with you guys were Paige Beckers and AZ Fud becoming the WNBA's favorite couple, and Paige setting us all straight.
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SPEAKER_00: So I don't know if you guys, like, let me just really take you through this.
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SPEAKER_00: This is like the very beginning of the season.
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SPEAKER_00: AZ FUD gets drafted to the Dallas Wings, where Paige already plays.
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SPEAKER_00: They already played together at UConn, won a championship together, but they were girlfriend and girlfriend.
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SPEAKER_00: Like they stepped out together.
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SPEAKER_00: They were dating.
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SPEAKER_00: And when Paizy became teammates again in the WBA, peep, everybody, everybody had something to say about it, right?
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SPEAKER_00: But I found it funny that Paige set us all straight by going into the press conference and being like, listen, Aisie and I are in a relationship and we've always been professional, and mind your fucking business, you stupid ass bitches.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, that's literally basically what she said.
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SPEAKER_00: That's basically what she said.
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SPEAKER_00: So um, Paige set us all straight.
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SPEAKER_00: She's still on business.
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SPEAKER_00: I love that because her going in and just like saying that, because people were gonna keep asking them questions about their relationship, but the question is, are they still dating?
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SPEAKER_00: Like, here, I'm not, I listen, I'm not here to be messy.
7:28
SPEAKER_00: I'm just here to, I'm just here to go through what happened over the season, okay?
7:31
SPEAKER_00: So let me stop, let me stop, let me stop, let me stop, let me stop.
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SPEAKER_00: But let me know what y'all think in the chat.
7:35
SPEAKER_00: And speaking of Paige, I this brings us to the WNBA finals a little bit, okay?
7:40
SPEAKER_00: Paige Beckers manifested Zendaya at a WNBA game, just not hers.
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SPEAKER_00: Back in September of 2025, Paige Beckers went on the Jennifer Hudson show and admitted that Zendaya was the celebrity she'd most want to see courtside at one of her games.
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SPEAKER_00: She joked that she'd have to act nonchalant if Zendaya actually showed up and even apologized to AZ5 for admitting her celebrity crush.
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SPEAKER_00: Then in July of 2026, Paige was asked which celebrity she'd switch lives with for a day, and she picked Tom Holland.
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SPEAKER_00: I wonder why that is.
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SPEAKER_00: Wonder why that is.
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SPEAKER_00: Who would you want to switch lives for a day?
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SPEAKER_00: Tom Holland.
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SPEAKER_00: And she said it right off the dome, too.
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SPEAKER_00: It took her two seconds.
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SPEAKER_00: She said it right off the dome.
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SPEAKER_00: But then Zendaya did come to a WNBA game, but it was a WNBA finals game to support the Valkyries, which Paige was not playing in.
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SPEAKER_00: And Paige even responded to it and she like commented some like sad emojis on the Instagram post about Zendaya's appearance.
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SPEAKER_00: But it was really funny because the WNBA's official account replied that they immediately thought of Paige when they saw Zendaya at a game.
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SPEAKER_00: Also, can we just talk about Zendaya's like aura coming there?
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SPEAKER_00: Zendaya is one of those celebrities that when she pulls up somewhere, it is not on some normal regular shit.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, Zendaya blessing us with her presence at a WNBA game is something like that.
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SPEAKER_00: Is she walking a room?
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SPEAKER_00: There's very few celebrities that have the kind of aura that Zendaya has.
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SPEAKER_00: I would say like Beyonce, like Beyonce pulls up somewhere and she's in public, it's like, holy shit, you know?
9:17
SPEAKER_00: Taylor Swift is like at that level of fame, but unfortunately, I have Taylor Swift overexposure.
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SPEAKER_00: She is fucking everywhere at all times, always loud.
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SPEAKER_00: She releases music every single day.
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SPEAKER_00: Like she is so that she just does not have the same aura, but Zedea doesn't just go everywhere.
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SPEAKER_00: So for her to go to the hey, I also found it funny that Zedeya put the t-shirt on.
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SPEAKER_00: Like when Zedea came to the WBA finals, she put the t-shirt on.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm so annoying because like when I go, like I don't be putting the t-shirt on.
9:46
SPEAKER_00: I don't be putting the t-shirt on.
9:47
SPEAKER_00: I don't be putting the t-shirt on.
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SPEAKER_00: If you guys don't know what I'm talking about, when you go to a WBA Finals game, typically there are t-shirts draped over your seat when you walk in.
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SPEAKER_00: And basically, when you sit down, you're supposed to put the t-shirt on.
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SPEAKER_00: So the whole arena is like wearing the same thing and it's like a seat of the same color.
10:03
SPEAKER_00: But I was under the impression in Atlanta we didn't do the t-shirt thing because we're a little bougie.
10:07
SPEAKER_00: And so usually they put like towels on our chairs.
10:10
SPEAKER_00: And when I was at WNBA Finals, only game three.
10:14
SPEAKER_00: The only game I went to where there were where there were t-shirts on the chair was game three.
10:17
SPEAKER_00: There was a t-shirt on the chair, and I was like, fuck! And I was wearing a fur coat with like a really like little top, like the basically my top I was wearing underneath was not supposed to be seen.
10:28
SPEAKER_00: So I was like, I cannot put that t-shirt on.
10:32
SPEAKER_00: So yeah.
10:34
SPEAKER_00: And then Zendaya gonna come to the game and be all humble with her Halle Berry haircut and put the t-shirt on.
10:39
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, now I look like I think I'm too cool.
10:42
SPEAKER_00: And Zendaya, like Zendaya ate me up.
10:44
SPEAKER_00: Anyways, y'all don't give a fuck about me when I'm talking about Zedea.
10:46
SPEAKER_00: Are you kidding me?
10:47
SPEAKER_00: I talk about Zedea and then I start making about myself.
10:49
SPEAKER_00: Okay, now, since we're, you know, rehashing WNBA drama, Asia Wilson versus the fan and Sophie Cunningham having something to say.
10:59
SPEAKER_00: During game two of the first round playoff series between the Indiana Fever and the Las Vegas Aces, Asia Wilson got into a confrontation with a fan sitting near the baseline.
11:07
SPEAKER_00: With just over four minutes remaining and Indiana leading 90 to 79, Sophie Cunningham was called for a foul on Asia Wilson.
11:13
SPEAKER_00: A fan stood up and pointed towards Asia.
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SPEAKER_00: She walked towards the fan to confront him and received a technical foul.
11:18
SPEAKER_00: Security removed the fan, but later allowed him to return after determining he hadn't violated the arena's code of conduct.
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SPEAKER_00: Asia called the interaction unacceptable, and the following day, Sophie Cunningham posted a TikTok captioned according to the rule book, da-da-da.
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SPEAKER_00: And in the video, she sat with an ice drink and joked about the comeback of pointing, referencing her own viral pointing moment earlier in the season.
11:41
SPEAKER_00: The TikTok never named Asia directly, but the timing and their references made the connection pretty clear.
11:47
SPEAKER_00: Here's the thing, okay?
11:49
SPEAKER_00: In hindsight, and this is why we do these recaps, because when you look back at all the drama that happened, you can look at with a new set of two eyes, okay?
11:56
SPEAKER_00: Asia was probably feeling very emotional in that moment when she confronted the fan.
12:01
SPEAKER_00: You know, I always think this when like athletes get mad at fans sitting courtside, like fans are gonna talk shit.
12:05
SPEAKER_00: It's just what they do.
12:06
SPEAKER_00: And you just part of why you get paid the big bucks is you just have to have the strength to leave the motherfuckers alone.
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SPEAKER_00: But Sophie tweeting that and then getting bounced out of the playoffs by the aces, or sorry, not tweeting, tick-tocking that, making the TikTok and then getting bounced out of the playoffs by the aces was I was like, girl, you could have like, let's choose shutting the fuck up.
12:30
SPEAKER_00: And I hope that Sophie takes that with her throughout the season and and learns a little bit more of the shut of the art of shutting the fuck up.
12:38
SPEAKER_00: Because the fever, I feel like actually everyone in the fever organization kind of needs to, except for Caitlyn.
12:43
SPEAKER_00: Caitlin actually is she's a PhD in the art of shutting the fuck up.
12:46
SPEAKER_00: But when the fever GM came out and said that what Kelsey Mitchell was saying about what she's experienced being a part of the fever was just not true, she was like, girl, what the fuck are you talking about?
12:56
SPEAKER_00: What is the other thing you're talking about?
12:58
SPEAKER_00: Racism when it comes to the fever.
12:59
SPEAKER_00: What?
13:00
SPEAKER_00: And like, even if you are a racist and you just are one of those people who loves the racism associated with the fever, I think we can all agree that the racism associated with the fever is not fake.
13:11
SPEAKER_00: Okay, like it's not made up.
13:13
SPEAKER_00: Whether you want to participate in it or not, fine, okay?
13:16
SPEAKER_00: But it's not fake, okay?
13:18
SPEAKER_00: Like, be fucking for real.
13:21
SPEAKER_00: So the GM saying that, like, that's not true, especially in regards to a free agent that they need to keep on their team, is crazy to me.
13:31
SPEAKER_00: Crazy to me.
13:32
SPEAKER_00: Anywho's all.
13:34
SPEAKER_00: Next, speaking of Caitlin Clark, the next piece of drama I want to rehash is Caitlin Clark and Paige Becker's.
13:40
SPEAKER_00: During an August matchup, Caitlin Clark reacted.
13:42
SPEAKER_00: See?
13:43
SPEAKER_00: Caitlin Clark doesn't just get into it with black girls.
13:47
SPEAKER_00: Wait, actually, this is Paige Becker's.
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SPEAKER_00: So does this count?
13:55
SPEAKER_00: Anyways.
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SPEAKER_00: Anyways, during an August matchup, Caitlin Clark reacted angrily after a deliberate foul, and Paige Beckers responded by extending her arm in a gesture telling Caitlin to calm down.
14:07
SPEAKER_00: Because Caitlin be doing the most.
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SPEAKER_00: Caitlin is the WNBA's Luca, like extremely talented player, but girl, the crying to the refs.
14:17
SPEAKER_00: The crying to the refs.
14:18
SPEAKER_00: It has I hate that fucking shit.
14:20
SPEAKER_00: I hate that fucking shit.
14:21
SPEAKER_00: I get a little complaint here and there to the refs, but they're like constantly crying.
14:25
SPEAKER_00: And if you have gone and watched a Caitlin Clark game in person, very talented player.
14:31
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
14:31
SPEAKER_00: I I have gone to Sat Courtside to watch her play.
14:34
SPEAKER_00: Very talented player.
14:35
SPEAKER_00: I love watching Caitlin because I know how y'all get you hate Caitlin Clark, you hate Caitlyn Clark.
14:39
SPEAKER_00: I don't hate her, but I think even her fans, you can admit, the crying to Louis the Refs is a little bit much.
14:44
SPEAKER_00: I mean, girl, she spends half the game like this.
14:52
SPEAKER_00: Like, girl.
14:56
SPEAKER_00: Let it glow.
14:57
SPEAKER_00: It's so fucking annoying.
14:59
SPEAKER_00: So Paige calling that out and being like, calm down, is so funny.
15:04
SPEAKER_00: Now let's talk about Marina Mabrie's crash out jar.
15:07
SPEAKER_00: Marina Mabrie introduced a jar assigning financial penalties for emotional outbursts, an attempt to hold herself accountable for her reactions.
15:17
SPEAKER_00: You know what's funny?
15:19
SPEAKER_00: Marina Mabry implementing a crash-out jar, making herself literally pay for crashing out.
15:25
SPEAKER_00: Very, very interesting to me.
15:27
SPEAKER_00: However, what other athletes do you guys think would need a crash-out jar?
15:32
SPEAKER_00: That's my question, right?
15:34
SPEAKER_00: Because who else would I give a crow?
15:38
SPEAKER_00: I mean, Jay uh Draymond Green definitely could use a crash out jar.
15:42
SPEAKER_00: I mean, brother, he could definitely use a crash out jar.
15:46
SPEAKER_00: He threw that man to the ground the other night.
15:48
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, Jesus Christ.
15:49
SPEAKER_00: Oh, look at the chat.
15:50
SPEAKER_00: Way ahead of me.
15:51
SPEAKER_00: Draymond, Draymond, Draymond, Draymond.
15:52
SPEAKER_00: He needs a crash out jar bad.
15:54
SPEAKER_00: Jesus fucking Christ.
15:57
SPEAKER_00: Alicia Gray, someone said, Angel can't.
15:59
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
16:01
SPEAKER_00: And you guys know I am an Angel Reese.
16:05
SPEAKER_00: I love Angel.
16:06
SPEAKER_00: I love Angel down.
16:08
SPEAKER_00: But she be talking her shit, which is like excellent when she's like playing really well.
16:13
SPEAKER_00: But like she be going at it, bro.
16:16
SPEAKER_00: She be going at it too.
16:17
SPEAKER_00: But I'm not gonna continue down that rabbit hole.
16:20
SPEAKER_00: Our next period we are going to be getting into with the WBA are the girls who understood the assignment.
16:25
SPEAKER_00: We are going to be talking about what happened on the court this WNBA season.
16:28
SPEAKER_00: The biggest basketball performances, breakout stars, and historic moments.
16:31
SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about Angel Reese's Atlanta Revenge Tour.
16:34
SPEAKER_00: Chicago traded Angel Reese to Atlanta in April for two first-round picks and a future second-round pick swap.
16:40
SPEAKER_00: After a turbulent stretch in Chicago, Angel entered a completely different situation with the dream, playing alongside Ali Chagray, Ryan Howard, and a roster with championship aspirations.
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SPEAKER_00: She went on to set a single season rebounding and double-double records, win defensive player of the year, and help Atlanta reach game seven of the WNBA finals.
16:59
SPEAKER_00: And while while a lot of people had a lot to say, because of obviously people who are fans of Angel Reesh, right, when she was in the finals dropping 30, were like, oh my God, you guys were so wrong about her.
17:12
SPEAKER_00: And then now that they've lost, a lot of people want to talk their shit.
17:14
SPEAKER_00: Here's the thing no matter what happens, no matter what happens, Angel still had an incredibly beautiful season where she shut a lot of people up.
17:27
SPEAKER_00: Yes, she lost in the finals.
17:29
SPEAKER_00: She lost in a game seven.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
17:32
SPEAKER_00: In a game seven in the WNBA finals in the third year of her career.
17:37
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
17:38
SPEAKER_00: So she will be back.
17:40
SPEAKER_00: I will not be tolerating any slander just because, and yes, the Valkyries shut her down.
17:45
SPEAKER_00: Shut it down for my love island watchers out there.
17:48
SPEAKER_00: Um yes, the Valkyries shut her the hell down.
17:52
SPEAKER_00: What are you gonna do?
17:53
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
17:54
SPEAKER_00: What are you gonna do?
17:55
SPEAKER_00: When Ryan Howard and Alicia Gray are chucking up shots in the way that they are and missing, there's not much you're not gonna win a finals game like that, scoring 60 something points.
18:07
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the Valkyries are gonna win a game scoring 60 something points because they're stopping you from scoring.
18:11
SPEAKER_00: You have to find a way.
18:13
SPEAKER_00: So yeah.
18:16
SPEAKER_00: Now, next, the Golden State Valkyries won the WNBA finals.
18:21
SPEAKER_00: And just their second season as a franchise, the Golden State Valkyries won the 2026 WNBA championship, defeating the Atlanta Dreams 68 to 63 in a game seven.
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SPEAKER_00: Gabby Williams scored 30 points in the deciding game after only scoring two in the first half, which is crazy, and earned finals and VP honors.
18:38
SPEAKER_00: And what made the championship especially remarkable was Golden State's team-building approach.
18:42
SPEAKER_00: Rather than having a roster filled with established superstars, the Valkyries developed a cohesive team that exceeded the expectations.
18:50
SPEAKER_00: They had no choice because they're an expansion team.
18:52
SPEAKER_00: But it's funny because their owner gave Natalie Nakase, their coach, an impossible task, right?
19:01
SPEAKER_00: But she got it done in two years.
19:04
SPEAKER_00: He said he wanted to win a championship in five, she got it done in two.
19:07
SPEAKER_00: And this shows, this shows what happens when ownership is willing to invest in women's sports.
19:16
SPEAKER_00: You get that return on your investment.
19:18
SPEAKER_00: They're the first billion-dollar WNBA team.
19:21
SPEAKER_00: They won a championship in two years because their owner was willing to invest in their branding, was willing to invest in their facilities, was willing to invest in the betterment of the organization as a whole for them.
19:32
SPEAKER_00: And so, because so many owners in the WNBA aren't willing to do that, guys.
19:38
SPEAKER_00: If you aren't a watcher of the WNBA, not every single team has a play, uh, a practice facility.
19:46
SPEAKER_00: There are WMBA teams practicing in the fucking local YMCA.
19:51
SPEAKER_00: Like, and the Golden State Valkyries are not that.
19:55
SPEAKER_00: They have the same infrastructure as the Warriors, but one thing I think is fascinating is the fact that their owners said after winning the championship, had they been blue and gold, they always would have been compared to the Warriors, and that purple and that they have their own staff that does branding and everything for them.
20:10
SPEAKER_00: Like it's not just people work for the Warriors and the Valkyries.
20:12
SPEAKER_00: They're you work for the Warriors, you work for the Valkyries, right?
20:14
SPEAKER_00: They have their own identity and they're their own selves, and it's just so powerful.
20:18
SPEAKER_00: Obviously, they hit they struck gold.
20:20
SPEAKER_00: I feel like not enough people are saying this, they struck gold with the market.
20:26
SPEAKER_00: San Francisco is like the market to start a women's basketball team, right?
20:31
SPEAKER_00: But their fans really bought in.
20:33
SPEAKER_00: They've been they've sold out their arena every single game since the first one.
20:38
SPEAKER_00: And for them to sell out without a big name star, which Gabby Williams has been called not a star so many times, and now look at our finals MVP.
20:51
SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, that's my reaction to the WNBA finals.
20:55
SPEAKER_00: I also want to give a shout out to Olivia Miles breaking rookie records while the season ended.
20:59
SPEAKER_00: Okay, scary.
21:00
SPEAKER_00: For the Lynx, she still won unanimous rookie of the year after setting rookie records for points and for points and 20-point games.
21:07
SPEAKER_00: She also was in the MVP conversation.
21:10
SPEAKER_00: Remember that?
21:11
SPEAKER_00: So, very iconic season for her.
21:14
SPEAKER_00: Asia Wilson won her fifth MVP.
21:16
SPEAKER_00: She became the first player to win three consecutive WNBA MVP awards, extending her record to five overall.
21:22
SPEAKER_00: I have a question for you guys: what would Asia Wilson have to accomplish to become the undisputed greatest WNBA player of all time?
21:30
SPEAKER_00: Let me know in the comments.
21:31
SPEAKER_00: Or is she already?
21:33
SPEAKER_00: Because I would say five MVPs.
21:41
SPEAKER_00: That would make her the GOAT, right?
21:44
SPEAKER_00: People in the chat are saying she has to win more rings, but does she not have enough rings?
21:51
SPEAKER_00: Right?
21:51
SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know.
21:52
SPEAKER_00: Asia Wilson, I would say she's the GOAT.
21:55
SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's just like people have trouble calling someone the goat who's so young.
22:00
SPEAKER_00: Is Asia even 30 yet?
22:01
SPEAKER_00: I think she's 29.
22:02
SPEAKER_00: Is she even 30 yet?
22:04
SPEAKER_00: And still playing.
22:06
SPEAKER_00: She could very well win a couple more MVPs in her career.
22:09
SPEAKER_00: So I would say that she is the undisputed GOAT.
22:12
SPEAKER_00: However, her career's not over, so I think people are a little uncomfortable calling someone the GOAT when their career isn't over.
22:18
SPEAKER_00: So I don't know.
22:20
SPEAKER_00: Also, some records that got destroyed this season.
22:23
SPEAKER_00: Marina Mabry scored 53 points in the game, tiring tying the WNBA single game scoring record.
22:29
SPEAKER_00: Kelsey Mitchell set a new single season scoring record with 1,086 points.
22:34
SPEAKER_00: Kayla McBride made 10 three-pointers in a single game.
22:37
SPEAKER_00: Camilla Cardoso won a perfect 13 for 13 from the field in one game.
22:42
SPEAKER_00: AZ Fudd won the three-point contest as a rookie.
22:46
SPEAKER_00: Y'all remember that?
22:49
SPEAKER_00: And Don Dominique Malonga threw down a dunk during All-Star festivities, assisted by none other than Miss Angel Reese.
22:56
SPEAKER_00: Chat, what was the most impressive performance to you throughout the season?
23:00
SPEAKER_00: I would just have to say Asia winning a fifth MVP because that was fucking crazy.
23:04
SPEAKER_00: But I will say the 53-point game from Marina Mabry, kind of crazy.
23:09
SPEAKER_00: Kind of crazy.
23:10
SPEAKER_00: All right.
23:11
SPEAKER_00: Now that we've talked about basketball, can we get messy again?
23:14
SPEAKER_00: Can we get messy again?
23:15
SPEAKER_00: Because I want to do a segment where I talk about the people this WNBA season who deserved detention and parent-teacher conferences.
23:23
SPEAKER_00: Sophie Cunningham.
23:26
SPEAKER_00: Uh and DeJanya Carrington.
23:28
SPEAKER_00: DeJanae Carrington was ejected following a flagrant two-foul on Sophie Cunningham during an August matchup.
23:34
SPEAKER_00: The incident escalated into a broader social media conversation after DeJanay Carrington posted white privilege after she was ejected, like right after.
23:44
SPEAKER_00: The conversation occurred amid controversy surrounding Cunningham's public statements about transgender athletes, yada yada yada.
23:49
SPEAKER_00: I don't like Sophie Cunningham, but I'm not gonna lie.
23:53
SPEAKER_00: As a girl who loves tea and drama and mess, I love Dejanae's tweets.
23:57
SPEAKER_00: As a black woman who works in sports and has to talk about my opinion on things that happen in the sports world, didn't love that DJ tweeted that.
24:06
SPEAKER_00: I didn't love that she tweeted white privilege after that because, and then she later said that her tweeting white privilege wasn't about that specific situation.
24:14
SPEAKER_00: And I do think Sophie not getting in trouble at all after how she was acting in the situation was wasn't, but I I just I just didn't like the tweet.
24:26
SPEAKER_00: I think I don't know.
24:27
SPEAKER_00: I think, and this is me personally.
24:30
SPEAKER_00: I think that I'm trying to be careful with my wording here.
24:32
SPEAKER_00: I don't know why I didn't love it.
24:34
SPEAKER_00: I just didn't love it.
24:35
SPEAKER_00: I think that it just gave like fever fans, and maybe it is my fever fan fatigue talking, but it gave fever fans like another thing to like latch on and be like, uh, we're always crying, but it's also like are black women not supposed to like speak up about things, you know?
24:55
SPEAKER_00: But I don't know.
24:58
SPEAKER_00: I didn't love the tweet.
24:59
SPEAKER_00: I didn't love the tweet, I gotta admit that.
25:01
SPEAKER_00: And I love DJ.
25:02
SPEAKER_00: And someone in the tweet in the chat said it was white privilege, though.
25:05
SPEAKER_00: Sophie gets away with everything.
25:06
SPEAKER_00: But does like, okay, yeah, like Sophie benefits from white privilege, the Indiana Fever as a whole benefit from white privilege, what the fuck?
25:15
SPEAKER_00: But I just think Sophie Cunningham is just so ugly, I guess my issue is she's just not worth worth your breath.
25:23
SPEAKER_00: Like, she's just such like a waste.
25:26
SPEAKER_00: And Dejanae giving people a reason to have something to say in that way.
25:32
SPEAKER_00: I just, it's just not exactly how I would have handled that situation.
25:37
SPEAKER_00: Not that like I want to like police what Dejanae has to say, but I just didn't love her tweeting that because it was like now they're gonna be like, ooh, this is basketball, and you're taking it too far, and blah blah blah.
25:51
SPEAKER_00: And it's just like fucking annoying.
25:53
SPEAKER_00: But I think Sophie Cunningham is so fucking annoying.
25:57
SPEAKER_00: And I do think at the end of the day, Sophie Cunningham isn't a good basketball player.
26:00
SPEAKER_00: Who gives a fuck about her?
26:02
SPEAKER_00: Like, she's not a good basketball player.
26:05
SPEAKER_00: Who gives a fuck about her?
26:07
SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, anyways.
26:08
SPEAKER_00: The next person that I'm sending to detention for this WNBA season is Sandy Brondello.
26:14
SPEAKER_00: Toronto's head coach Sandy Brondello received a one-game suspension after referring to Angel Reese as a protected species while criticizing officiating.
26:23
SPEAKER_00: She later apologized and said, and said, uh, like we say that in Australia, but calling a black girl a species is fucking crazy.
26:33
SPEAKER_00: Anyway, you slice it, that was insane.
26:36
SPEAKER_00: Caitlin Clark and Alyssa Thomas, another piece of drama that deserves a parent-teacher conference.
26:41
SPEAKER_00: Alyssa Thomas received a retroactive flagrant foul and a one-game suspension after contact with Caitlin Clark's throat during a game.
26:49
SPEAKER_00: But this led to her getting death threats and all this racial uproar.
26:54
SPEAKER_00: And that's why it's so funny that the fever GM says that the racism within the fire, the fever wasn't real.
27:04
SPEAKER_00: Because it was very real when Elisa when that Alyssa Thomas situation happened.
27:08
SPEAKER_00: And whenever you slowed down that foul and you saw it happen, obviously it looked really bad.
27:13
SPEAKER_00: It did look bad.
27:13
SPEAKER_00: Like I can admit it looked bad.
27:15
SPEAKER_00: But it it contributed to a lot of like pandering and like weirdness and weird shit.
27:21
SPEAKER_00: And they took it too far.
27:22
SPEAKER_00: And this is what people, when DJ tweets something like white privilege, this is the shit that she's talking about.
27:27
SPEAKER_00: Obviously, they came down hard on AT after that situation, but it does seem like Indiana Fever players be getting away with shit.
27:38
SPEAKER_00: So what started as a misfoul turned into a national debate involving race, player safety, online harassment, political involvement, and the treatment of black women in professional sports.
27:48
SPEAKER_00: Alyssa Thomas was disciplined for the play, but the racial harassment she subsequently received raised a separate issue about how WNBA players are being treated by online audiences.
27:57
SPEAKER_00: Caitlin Clark condemned the harassment while also acknowledging the need for better officiating.
28:02
SPEAKER_00: Now, I do want to talk about the fact that this led a group of Republican members of Congress to send a former letter, formal letter to WMBA Commissioner Kathy Inglebert, demanding answers about the league's treatment of Caitlin Clark.
28:18
SPEAKER_00: The letter was led by Texas Congressman August Pfluger and members of the Republican Study Committee.
28:27
SPEAKER_00: Lawmakers argued, can you guys believe what we're talking about right now?
28:31
SPEAKER_00: Can you guys believe what we're fucking talking about right now?
28:33
SPEAKER_00: We're talking about Republican lawmakers trying to get the WNBA to intervene like law-wise with Caitlin Clark.
28:44
SPEAKER_00: Lawmakers argued that Caitlin had repeatedly experienced unnecessarily aggressive that word aggressive physical contact, referencing incidents where she had been hip checked, poked in the eye, and struck in the throat.
28:58
SPEAKER_00: They suggested that some incidents could involve discrimination or retaliation and raise the possibility of investigations by federal agencies, including the Department of Justice.
29:14
SPEAKER_00: Can you guys believe that all of this has happened this season?
29:19
SPEAKER_00: I can't.
29:19
SPEAKER_00: Um, anyways, another person who needs attention, WNBA related.
29:24
SPEAKER_00: Anna's Cancer Freedom's WNBA controversy.
29:27
SPEAKER_00: Anna's Cancer Freedom made headlines for the first time in his fucking life through public demonstrations.
29:32
SPEAKER_00: I added that part.
29:33
SPEAKER_00: That wasn't in my my notes, but I added that part.
29:35
SPEAKER_00: Through public demonstrations and disputes over arena access, including an incident involving seating arrangements during the WNBA finals in Atlanta.
29:43
SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, they they weren't having that shit in Atlanta.
29:48
SPEAKER_00: Nigga, get the fuck.
29:49
SPEAKER_00: Um he's gonna come to a game in a shirt that says the definition of a woman, get into it with um who was it?
29:56
SPEAKER_00: Tosh Cloud.
29:56
SPEAKER_00: He's gonna get into it with Tosh Cloud and then try to come into Atlanta and bring that shit over here.
30:00
SPEAKER_00: We love to gaze in the A.
30:02
SPEAKER_00: Don't try it in the A.
30:03
SPEAKER_00: Take that shit the fuck somewhere else.
30:05
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
30:06
SPEAKER_00: And the last thing that needs attention: the WNBA's growing pains.
30:09
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
30:10
SPEAKER_00: The league's 30th season brought record attendance, major television viewership expansion, and significant changes to the business structure.
30:17
SPEAKER_00: And lots of money for the world.
30:19
SPEAKER_00: I know that's right.
30:20
SPEAKER_00: Commissioner Kathy Ingelbert announced that she would retire at the end of 2026.
30:25
SPEAKER_00: The league also continued navigating issues involving the challenges of rapid growth, including the Atlanta WNBA Finals Arena controversy, where we didn't know where the finals were going to be played because the WNBA didn't book out State Form Arena for the WNBA finals.
30:45
SPEAKER_00: I so WNBA finals game was played at 12:30 p.m.
30:50
SPEAKER_00: on a Thursday.
30:52
SPEAKER_00: I'm not trying to be negative because the finals were incredible.
30:56
SPEAKER_00: And I did go to the brunch game in Atlanta and it was incredible.
30:59
SPEAKER_00: I had a ball.
31:01
SPEAKER_00: That cannot happen again next season.
31:03
SPEAKER_00: Obviously, the WNBA has grown.
31:04
SPEAKER_00: WNBA act accordingly.
31:06
SPEAKER_00: Get your fucking shit together.
31:08
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
31:09
SPEAKER_00: Now, let's talk about the final exam: the 2026 WNBA playoffs.
31:16
SPEAKER_00: We had Atlanta's historic finals run.
31:18
SPEAKER_00: I've been going to dream games for years, including when they played at Gateway Center and Safe Room Arena, and the energy around this playoff run was absolutely electric.
31:26
SPEAKER_00: The Atlanta Dream reached game seven of the WNBA finals, bringing a new level of attention and excitement to women's basketball in Atlanta.
31:32
SPEAKER_00: Angel Reese, Alicia Gray, and Ryan Howard became central figures in the team's championship pursuit.
31:36
SPEAKER_00: The atmosphere surrounding these playoffs was particularly meaningful for Atlanta fans who had supported the dream through years of playing in different venues and fighting for mainstream recognition.
31:45
SPEAKER_00: And I do think a big part of that is attributed to Angel Reese.
31:48
SPEAKER_00: Then we had the Valkyries winning their the finals in their second year.
31:53
SPEAKER_00: And we had lots of new faces and new places this season.
31:57
SPEAKER_00: Angel Reese leaving Chicago, escaping, I should say, Chicago for Atlanta.
32:00
SPEAKER_00: Rakia Jackson going to Chicago and the Sky entering their baddie era.
32:04
SPEAKER_00: Like, didn't you guys feel like all the baddies went to Chicago like at the same time?
32:09
SPEAKER_00: The WNBA's expansion era.
32:11
SPEAKER_00: The Toronto Tempo and Portland Fire joined the WNBA in 2026, expanding the league into new markets.
32:17
SPEAKER_00: Um, Golden State winning the championship two years in really set the bar high for these expansion teams, huh?
32:22
SPEAKER_00: Shit, fuck.
32:24
SPEAKER_00: Damn.
32:26
SPEAKER_00: Yikes.
32:27
SPEAKER_00: Alright.
32:29
SPEAKER_00: Now, guys, now that we've debriefed the season, and let me know if there are any moments that I forgot about.
32:34
SPEAKER_00: No, the episode is not over.
32:36
SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the first annual Hoops for Hotdy's Yearbook Awards.
32:47
SPEAKER_00: This is where we get messy bitches.
32:49
SPEAKER_00: So if you're not a fucking real one, get off the live, okay?
32:51
SPEAKER_00: No screen recording, because this is where we get messy bitches.
32:55
SPEAKER_00: Hotties, it's officially time for the moment you've been waiting for.
32:58
SPEAKER_00: And if you like this segment, I will do this for every sport.
33:03
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
33:03
SPEAKER_00: I will do this for every sport at the end of their season, okay?
33:06
SPEAKER_00: We can't have a yearbook for every sport, okay?
33:09
SPEAKER_00: So I asked you to vote on the superlatives for our first ever Hoops for Hoddies WMBA yearbook.
33:16
SPEAKER_00: And the results are officially in.
33:19
SPEAKER_00: These aren't my picks, these are your picks.
33:21
SPEAKER_00: So if you don't like the results, take it up with your classmates, okay?
33:25
SPEAKER_00: How this works is I'm messy as fuck, so I chose some categories, okay?
33:30
SPEAKER_00: Because this is the classroom for the girls, the gays and the days for all things sports.
33:34
SPEAKER_00: I chose some categories about this WMBA season so you guys could award them with yearbook superlatives.
33:41
SPEAKER_00: You can sign my yearbook, okay?
33:43
SPEAKER_00: We can all, you know, wrap this thing up with a bow.
33:46
SPEAKER_00: Let's start positive.
33:49
SPEAKER_00: The first award I want to announce are hold on, I want to tell you guys the nominees too, so you know who lost.
33:57
SPEAKER_00: Because you know, why am I so fucking messy?
34:01
SPEAKER_00: I want to tell you guys the nominees so you know who lost.
34:03
SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
34:04
SPEAKER_00: Um, and if you want to vote and you don't like the results, you should be in the Hoops for Hodis bro broadcast channel on the Hoops for Hadis Instagram page.
34:10
SPEAKER_00: Then you would have gotten a vote.
34:11
SPEAKER_00: Then your vote would have counted.
34:12
SPEAKER_00: And if your vote didn't count, stay in line.
34:14
SPEAKER_00: Stay in line.
34:15
SPEAKER_00: Voting is important.
34:16
SPEAKER_00: Okay, for the award for class clown, the nominees were Sid and TP, the Stud Buds, Paige Beckers, and Rakia Jackson on TikTok where she came out.
34:31
SPEAKER_00: Question mark.
34:34
SPEAKER_00: And the winner for this award was Sid and TP.
34:40
SPEAKER_00: Sid and TP, Sid and T P won by a landslide.
34:44
SPEAKER_00: Now, for our next award, we have Mrs.
34:49
SPEAKER_00: CEO, aka most likely to stand on business.
34:54
SPEAKER_00: We had Angel Reese making her haters look like fucking idiots.
34:58
SPEAKER_00: Our second nominee is Natasha Cloud versus Ennis Canter Freedom.
35:03
SPEAKER_00: Getting that nigga the fuck together because don't come back.
35:05
SPEAKER_00: Paige Beckers setting the record straight.
35:08
SPEAKER_00: After the WNBA draft, when our girlfriend was drafted to the team, and she said, look, I always keep it capital P, not for Paige, for professional with my girl.
35:18
SPEAKER_00: We ain't new to this, we true to this.
35:20
SPEAKER_00: We've played together before.
35:21
SPEAKER_00: Keep your questions to your fucking selves.
35:23
SPEAKER_00: And Angel Wilson beating the Indiana Fever after Sophie Cunningham made a TikTok provoking her.
35:29
SPEAKER_00: Our winner for these WNBA awards.
35:34
SPEAKER_00: R.
35:39
SPEAKER_00: Angel Reese making her haters look stupid.
35:42
SPEAKER_00: Most likely to stand on business is Angel Reese, according to you guys.
35:46
SPEAKER_00: Next our next award.
35:48
SPEAKER_00: Okay, this is when it gets messy.
35:49
unknown: Alright.
35:51
SPEAKER_00: So our next our next yearbook superlative is hey, remember when you Yeah, never do that again.
36:01
SPEAKER_00: That's the title of the superlative.
36:05
SPEAKER_00: And the nominees are Sophie Cunningham versus trans women, the Atlanta Dream Arena controversy, Kathy Inglebert being the WNBA commissioner, and Sandy Brondello calling Angel Reese a protected species.
36:22
SPEAKER_00: This one was a close race.
36:23
SPEAKER_00: Our finalists were Sophie Cunningham versus trans women and the Atlanta Dream Arena controversy, and the winner of the hey, remember when you Yeah, never do that again.
36:35
SPEAKER_00: Your book award is Sophie Cunningham versus trans woman.
36:41
SPEAKER_00: Yes! Yes! Congratulations, Sophie.
36:44
SPEAKER_00: Our next award, we'll get positive again because that was that was messy, okay?
36:49
SPEAKER_00: Our next award is for best dressed.
36:52
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
36:53
SPEAKER_00: Our nominees for the Hoops for Hoddies Superlative Award are Angel Reese, Dejanae Carrington, Rakia Jackson, and Skylar Diggins.
37:04
SPEAKER_00: Our winner is DeJanae Carrington.
37:08
SPEAKER_00: Dejanae Carrington, you are the best dressed in the WNBA, as according to the Hoddies in the classroom.
37:13
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
37:15
SPEAKER_00: Now, our next award.
37:16
SPEAKER_00: You guys like how I sandwich the messy ass awards with the like positive ones.
37:22
SPEAKER_00: And okay, when I say these, when I say these nominees, I want you guys to say in the chat who you think is gonna win.
37:29
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
37:30
SPEAKER_00: Keep in mind I did not choose, I chose the categories, I chose the nominees, but I did not choose the winners.
37:36
SPEAKER_00: Okay, our next award is least likely to return.
37:40
SPEAKER_00: Hopefully.
37:44
SPEAKER_00: Least likely to return.
37:46
SPEAKER_00: Hopefully.
37:47
SPEAKER_00: Number one, our first nominee is Dildos.
37:53
SPEAKER_00: I don't need to I don't need to elaborate on that one.
37:58
SPEAKER_00: Um yeah.
38:00
SPEAKER_00: Number two, Inniscantus Freedom.
38:03
SPEAKER_00: Cantor Freedom.
38:06
SPEAKER_00: Number three, Riley Gaines.
38:09
SPEAKER_00: And number four, Kathy Engelbert.
38:14
SPEAKER_00: While this was a tight race, our top two were Kathy Engelbert and Ennis Cantus Freedom.
38:21
SPEAKER_00: Cantor Freedom.
38:22
SPEAKER_00: Why can't I get his name right?
38:23
SPEAKER_00: What like Jesus Christ?
38:25
SPEAKER_00: Oh, who gives a fuck?
38:26
SPEAKER_00: Who do you guys think won this award?
38:29
SPEAKER_00: For least likely to return, hopefully.
38:31
SPEAKER_00: The winner, oh the chat thinks it's Kathy.
38:34
SPEAKER_00: The winner is Ennis Cantor Freedom.
38:38
SPEAKER_00: The Hoddies crowned Enos Cantor Freedom, the least likely to return.
38:43
SPEAKER_00: Hopefully.
38:44
SPEAKER_00: And I and it makes sense that the Hoddies voted for him, right?
38:47
SPEAKER_00: Because I mean, I guess Kathy's literally not returning, but they wouldn't let that nigga come to the vinyl.
38:53
SPEAKER_00: So all right.
38:54
SPEAKER_00: And our next award, I'm really curious to see who you guys think won this one.
38:59
SPEAKER_00: Our next award is for gag of the year.
39:05
SPEAKER_00: Yay! Our next award is for gag of the year.
39:11
SPEAKER_00: And your nominees are DJ G Janae Carrington tweeting on All-Star Weekend that she was cheated on by Nelissa Smith with Deja Kelly.
39:27
SPEAKER_00: Number two, Aja Wilson saying that she doesn't talk to the commissioner of the WNBA unless she's handing her awards.
39:34
SPEAKER_00: And DeJanae is nominated a third time.
39:38
SPEAKER_00: This is her third nomination in the Hoops for Hotties Yearbook Superlative Awards.
39:41
SPEAKER_00: Listen, she had a big year.
39:43
SPEAKER_00: DeJanay Carrington tweeting white privilege after the Hofhoul situation with the Indiana fever.
39:49
SPEAKER_00: Who do you guys think was the winner for gag of the year, as according to the Hoddies?
39:54
SPEAKER_00: And the winner is Dejanae Carrington tweeting during All-Star Weekend about being cheated on, and specifically naming the names of the women she was cheated on with.
40:04
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
40:05
SPEAKER_00: And for our final category, we have best couple.
40:09
SPEAKER_00: Because the WNBA has those.
40:12
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm sure the men's leagues have those too, but they're just not out of the closet yet.
40:16
SPEAKER_00: But I hope the heated rivalry gives them, you know, some freedom to be who you are.
40:22
SPEAKER_00: Anyways.
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SPEAKER_00: Um our first nominee for best couple is DB and AT.
40:30
SPEAKER_00: Our second nominee are Dijanae and Jackie.
40:35
SPEAKER_00: Our third nominee are Paige and AZ.
40:38
SPEAKER_00: And our fourth nominee are Gabby Williams, our Finals MVP, and Maureen Johannes.
40:43
SPEAKER_00: All right, y'all.
40:44
SPEAKER_00: Let me know who you think couple of the year is.
40:49
SPEAKER_00: Somebody said it's rigged if it's rigged if otherwise.
40:52
SPEAKER_00: Guys, these awards are not rigged.
40:54
SPEAKER_00: They were voted on by the Hotis in my broadcast channel.
40:57
SPEAKER_00: Go follow Hoops for Hotties on Instagram, okay?
41:00
SPEAKER_00: And I will be doing these end of the year yearbooks of relatives for other sports, okay?
41:05
SPEAKER_00: For the NFL, for the NBA.
41:07
SPEAKER_00: You request them.
41:07
SPEAKER_00: Let me know which sports you would want me to do an end-of-season yearbook for as well.
41:12
SPEAKER_00: I'm also gonna be posting the yearbook.
41:15
SPEAKER_00: There's more.
41:15
SPEAKER_00: Oh, wait, there's more on the Hoops for Hotties Instagram page if you're not following after I post this episode tonight at 7 p.m.
41:21
SPEAKER_00: Eastern.
41:22
SPEAKER_00: But, anyways, back to best couple.
41:24
SPEAKER_00: The chat definitely thinks DB and AT, Dijanay and Jackie.
41:28
SPEAKER_00: I see that y'all are all saying different shit, okay?
41:32
SPEAKER_00: And the winner, and it was not close, of best couple at the Hoops for Hottie's Yearbook Superlative Awards are Paige Becker's and AZ Fodd.
41:46
SPEAKER_00: Congratulations, Paisy.
41:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, that was fun.
41:54
SPEAKER_00: That was fun.
41:55
SPEAKER_00: All right, Hoddies.
41:56
SPEAKER_00: That officially concludes the 2026 WNBA school year.
42:01
SPEAKER_00: We laughed, we cried, we argued, we tweeted, we watched some, well, not tweeted, we used threads, I believe, WNBA fans.
42:09
SPEAKER_00: We watched some incredible gold basketball, and we witnessed a season that I genuinely don't think any of us will ever forget, even if we wanted to.
42:15
SPEAKER_00: Between the iconic performances, the new faces, the drama, the rivalries, and everything this league accomplished, it's been a year for the books.
42:23
SPEAKER_00: And thank you to everybody who voted in our first ever yearbook superlative awards.
42:27
SPEAKER_00: It was a lot of fun.
42:28
SPEAKER_00: And everybody who's been a part of Hoops for Hoddies this season, that doesn't mean I'm gonna leave ya.
42:34
SPEAKER_00: Because unfortunately, I still have shit to say about the NBA, the NFL, and everything else going on in the fucking world.
42:41
SPEAKER_00: But I will be back next week.
42:42
SPEAKER_00: This will be our final WNBA only episode.
42:45
SPEAKER_00: I'm so sad.
42:46
SPEAKER_00: I'm so sad.
42:46
SPEAKER_00: I'll miss you guys so much, but make sure you guys, somebody said DJ Nae just took home six awards.
42:53
SPEAKER_00: I know she's like already the most awarded in Hoops for Hottie Superlative Award history.
42:57
SPEAKER_00: Make sure you guys subscribe to Hoops for Hoddies on YouTube.
43:00
SPEAKER_00: We're at about 17K, and it just helps me out so much.
43:04
SPEAKER_00: Guys, this podcast isn't presented by anyone.
43:08
SPEAKER_00: It's as it's produced by my own production company in-house.
43:10
SPEAKER_00: I record this in my house, and you know, all the top sports podcasts are men, and it's a tough space to get into the min the sports podcast space, and it would mean a lot to me if you subscribe to our YouTube.
43:22
SPEAKER_00: You went and you listened on Apple and Spotify.
43:25
SPEAKER_00: You left me a review, you left me a comment, showed love to me and my production team that put this on.
43:30
SPEAKER_00: I hope you've enjoyed the episodes this WNBA season, and I love you so much.
43:34
SPEAKER_00: Make sure to follow Hoops for Hoddies on Instagram so you can be a part of the conversation and vote on these awards if you didn't like the winners.
43:40
SPEAKER_00: And I love you so much.
43:42
SPEAKER_00: Bye, Hoddies.
43:43
SPEAKER_00: Class dismissed.