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Today’s Popcorn Moment: This is not good from Stephanie White · Tony Katz | Popcorn Moment

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  Speaker 1: need to hear to believe. Then grab your popcorn, because
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  Speaker 1: there is more. I'm letting everybody know that this conversation
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  Speaker 1: about Stephanie White is happening in real time, and this
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  Speaker 1: conversation about Stephanie White the head coach of the Indiana Fever. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: I heard the audio like you did from Caitlin Clark.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't like seeing her coach get booed. She stands
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  Speaker 1: with her coach, good on her. I appreciate that. That's
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  Speaker 1: nice to see. However, we have to hear what it
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  Speaker 1: is she said is she addresses all of this firestorm
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  Speaker 1: to which she is partly responsible. And to hear her reaction, well,
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  Speaker 1: her reaction, if I'm going to discuss it, is a
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  Speaker 1: very very off base. Her reaction is outrageously emotional when
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't need to be, and it's possible that this
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  Speaker 1: is going to be taken differently as men hearing things
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  Speaker 1: differently than women. Maybe not. This is coach Stephanie White,
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  Speaker 1: Indiana Fever. Listen.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't necessarily for no people that are in this room.
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  Speaker 2: This is more for an online community that's trying to
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  Speaker 2: create narratives that simply don't exist, trying to create a
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  Speaker 2: fabrication or disortion of who I am, of what I'm
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  Speaker 2: about our players success, our players health and wellness, our
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  Speaker 2: player safety is always a top priority for me. One
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  Speaker 2: of the things I pride myself on is my relationships
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  Speaker 2: with players. For those who have anything to say about
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  Speaker 2: the play in the last game, I didn't see the
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  Speaker 2: play in real time. I went straight to a press conference.
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  Speaker 2: I thought the play got called right, thankfully, Sophie's Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Was it egregious? Absolutely? When you have a chance to
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  Speaker 2: watch that over and over and over on replay, you
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  Speaker 2: can see that I didn't have that in real time.
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  Speaker 2: I take personally any suggestions that I don't one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent always have my players back. I ride with them
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  Speaker 2: ten toes down all the time, all the time. They
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  Speaker 2: know that it's a shame that we can't have an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to talk about what great basketball they're playing, because
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  Speaker 2: they are playing. The reality is with me, I will
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  Speaker 2: always lead with love, I will always lead with grace,
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  Speaker 2: I will always lead with humility, and I will always
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  Speaker 2: lead with integrity. Doesn't mean I'll always get it right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm also human. The hate, the fear mongering, the divisiveness,
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  Speaker 2: the stuff that's trying to hijack our league will not win.
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  Speaker 2: It won't win. We are united, we are connected, We
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  Speaker 2: will not be divided. Every day. These women put their
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  Speaker 2: ass on the line every day when they go low,
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  Speaker 2: we go high. Love won't grace will win, Humility will win,
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  Speaker 2: and kindness will win. I stand by them. I will
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  Speaker 2: always stand by them. Everybody else can go to hill.
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  Speaker 1: And that is not how you do it. Coach White,
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  Speaker 1: you can argue with me that this is a sign
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  Speaker 1: of real passion. I will very gladly disagree with you.
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  Speaker 1: The online community is a conversation about whether or not
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  Speaker 1: the league accepts the idea that Sophie Cunningham said. Nothing remarkable.
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  Speaker 1: She just said something. Honest. Men are not women in girls.
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  Speaker 1: Sports are for girls. That's it. It is not divisive
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  Speaker 1: to notice that she said it, although I don't think
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  Speaker 1: she should be utilized as a political prop. It's not
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  Speaker 1: the online community noticing that the WNBA has a serious
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  Speaker 1: bigotry issue regarding white players who don't fit the accepted
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  Speaker 1: political mold. Peyte Buckers doesn't have this problem, Caitlin Clark does.
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  Speaker 1: That's the bigotry of the WNBA. How dare you suggest
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  Speaker 1: we don't notice? And if you want to debate that
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  Speaker 1: with me, coach, I'm down. I can prove it. If
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  Speaker 1: you didn't see the foul against Sophie Cunningham in real time,
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't see the replays, why comment on it?
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  Speaker 1: That look was just a hard play. Why comment on
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  Speaker 1: it at all? I haven't seen it yet. I need
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  Speaker 1: to go back and view it. You didn't do that.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't say that, you didn't say hey my bad,
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  Speaker 1: You blamed everybody else, You gave an excuse. Coaches, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: don't do that. It's that moment where your voice rises,
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  Speaker 1: where you discuss leading with love, grace, humility, and integrity,
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  Speaker 1: and that hate, fear mongering, divisiveness will not win and
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  Speaker 1: it will not hijack the league. With all due respect, coach,
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  Speaker 1: our issue is that the league has already been hijacked.
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  Speaker 1: You can't even explain what a woman is. There's no
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  Speaker 1: knowing whether or not the WNBA actually stands for women.
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  Speaker 1: When you talk about the hijacking, that call is coming
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  Speaker 1: from inside the league. Love will win, grace and kindness
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  Speaker 1: will win, and the rest of us can go to hell.
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  Speaker 1: This was a terrible, terrible outing from Coach White. It
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  Speaker 1: poorly represents the team, It poorly represents the league. It
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  Speaker 1: poorly represents Indiana. But it might very well be representative
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  Speaker 1: of the emotion that the league is solely about and
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  Speaker 1: nothing else. If you thought the dark days of the WNBA,
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  Speaker 1: we're already here. Oh no, no, no, it just got
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  Speaker 1: uglier for them. This was a big miss and I
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