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WNBA Controversy Erupts After Fever-Sky Game, Plus New Allegations in Clippers-Kawhi Cap Circumvention Probe · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, Welcome to The Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: So WNBA is having one of its best seasons on
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  Speaker 2: the floor and one of its most debated and political
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  Speaker 2: off the court. That is not a surprise for a
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  Speaker 2: league that has been under attacked from out breathing.
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  Speaker 1: Men and sulfating women alike seemingly at all times.
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  Speaker 2: But the debates really came to a head on the
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  Speaker 2: court on Saturday night in Chicago, So the Fever knocked
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  Speaker 2: off the Sky ninety to eighty six and a physical
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  Speaker 2: back and forth battle, Caitlyn Clark got her eighth technical
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  Speaker 2: foul the season for contact with a referee, which would
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  Speaker 2: have led to a gain suspension if the league had
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  Speaker 2: and stepped in after the game to rescind the tech.
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  Speaker 2: On the other side, though, the Sky's Dja Carrington had
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  Speaker 2: her flagrant, won a hard foul and Sophie Cunningham upgrade
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  Speaker 2: to a flagrant two after in game review. Carrington was
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  Speaker 2: ejected just eight minutes into the game and later posted
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  Speaker 2: on social media quote white privilege and tagged Indiana Fever.
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  Speaker 1: Now the player that Carrington filed.
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  Speaker 2: Sophie Cunningham is a white woman, but she's also becoming
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  Speaker 2: the right wings it girl of the moment. Cunningham's three
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  Speaker 2: biggest moments of late were her viral points in the
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  Speaker 2: face of the Wanna Bonner. You probably saw her meme
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  Speaker 2: she was a ring girl at UFC, and then she
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  Speaker 2: recently made some comments about trans people playing in the WNBA.
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  Speaker 1: She said she was speaking up to quote, protect women's sports.
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  Speaker 2: I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating
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  Speaker 2: trans and I'm like, I never once said that. I
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  Speaker 2: think that I'm here to extend love, but I also
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  Speaker 2: think that love is the truth and being honest, and
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  Speaker 2: I want to protect young girls in the locker room
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  Speaker 2: or young girls in sports who.
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  Speaker 1: Should not have to go against biological men.
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  Speaker 2: She has since tried to back out of the anti
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  Speaker 2: trans rhetoric publicly and has been the face of conversation
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  Speaker 2: for the past week. So it was a very complex
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  Speaker 2: situation and it now has the WNBA Commissioner, Kathy Engelbert involved,
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  Speaker 2: and she said, we recognize that this is a complex
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  Speaker 2: nuance topic and we will continue to have important conversations
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  Speaker 2: with you and all the players' association in the weeks
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  Speaker 2: and months ahead. I don't understand why this is even
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  Speaker 2: a conversation. And obviously there is a huge political dog
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  Speaker 2: whistle when it comes to trans rights and trans you
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  Speaker 2: will playing in sports, and this is a way.
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  Speaker 1: Too new and several conversation to get into within a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes.
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  Speaker 2: But as far as the WNBA goes, this has become
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  Speaker 2: just the center of conversation, both politically socially.
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  Speaker 1: On the internet. There's a lot to break down and
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  Speaker 1: get into.
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  Speaker 2: As far as what's happening on the court with the WNBA,
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  Speaker 2: I would like for us to get back to some
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  Speaker 2: conversation about basketball. I know that it is a very
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  Speaker 2: early league. There's a lot that still has to be
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  Speaker 2: developed as far as fandom and who is following what
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  Speaker 2: and who's a fan of who, But there does at
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  Speaker 2: some point need to be conversation about actual basketball and
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  Speaker 2: to stop putting these women in the center of conversations
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  Speaker 2: stated and ask to be put in. Just because Sophie
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  Speaker 2: has come out and said this statement does not mean
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  Speaker 2: that every person in the league has to respond to it,
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  Speaker 2: and it has become really ridiculous and unfair. I think
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  Speaker 2: actually Colin Cowhard my former co host and colleague talked
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  Speaker 2: about it, and I think he made a really good point,
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  Speaker 2: which is that not all athletes have to be involved
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  Speaker 2: in political conversation. Yes, do some skip the line because
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  Speaker 2: they of their background and what they have endured. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: black women often do not have a choice. LGBTQ plus
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  Speaker 2: when people do not have a choice. But just because
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  Speaker 2: someone is a basketball player does not mean that they
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  Speaker 2: are automatically signed up to be a political or social leader.
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  Speaker 2: And we should not take every comment that they make.
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  Speaker 1: As serious as we do. And it has gone.
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  Speaker 2: Really off the rails with the conversation on a WNBA,
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  Speaker 2: and it's really become unfair to a league that has
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  Speaker 2: done so much work just to be in the conversation
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  Speaker 2: about sports, and it is now a center of a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of really nonsense political conversation. Because there are no
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  Speaker 2: trans people, there are no trans women in the WNBA.
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  Speaker 1: This has not even a problem.
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  Speaker 2: This has been drummed up by people who want to
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  Speaker 2: put the WNBA at the center of controversy. So, staying
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  Speaker 2: with hoops and keeping it messy, let's talk about Kawhi
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  Speaker 2: leonard alleged cap circumvention scandal.
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  Speaker 1: So Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: Clippers are still awaiting the results of the NBA's finding
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  Speaker 2: about the aspiration scandal that first of the Clippers.
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  Speaker 1: Last off season.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't remember this, this is why the trade
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  Speaker 2: with Toronto was put on hold and there was a
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  Speaker 2: huge investigation that is still ongoing with the league with
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  Speaker 2: the head of the company that was a Clipper's former
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  Speaker 2: Jersey sponsor and had done a no show endorsement deal
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  Speaker 2: with Kawhi Leonard allegedly and is doing He is doing
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  Speaker 2: hard time in the penitentiary now for defrauding investors, amongst
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  Speaker 2: other crimes. And the Clippers did weather that storm, but
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  Speaker 2: according to new reporting, the Clippers, along with Kawhi and
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  Speaker 2: his management have more cap circumventionent questions to answer because
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  Speaker 2: they allegedly also had an undisclosed aunsorship agreement worth millions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars with the company that designed the Clippers video
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  Speaker 2: board at the Intuit dorm, as reported by Pablo Tory
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  Speaker 2: Shout Out Pablo on his Pablo on his podcast, Pablo
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  Speaker 2: Tory finds out he interviewed someone as identified as an
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  Speaker 2: anonymous high level source under contract for into It Dome
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  Speaker 2: who alleged that the sponsorship deal was one thousand percent
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  Speaker 2: away to circumit the salary caps, and it was funneling money.
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  Speaker 1: From the Clippers through Daktronics back to Kawhi.
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  Speaker 2: Tektronics also has nothing to do with the Cowboys Dak
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  Speaker 2: press spot, but as the name you might recognize, Daktronics
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  Speaker 2: is the South Dakota based company that designed the Halo board.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen this salo board.
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  Speaker 2: It is spectacular board, by the way into it is beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: Beside the point the Clippers two billion dollar venue that
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  Speaker 2: opened in twenty twenty four, they designed their halo display
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  Speaker 2: screen there. According to their website, it is quoted the
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  Speaker 2: leader in LED signed systems and hold more market share
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  Speaker 2: than any other competitor. So the League investigation to the
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  Speaker 2: Clippers and Leonard in September, and now this is a
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  Speaker 2: new development in the investigation. One thing that stands out
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  Speaker 2: is that Dektanis was in a low moments kind of
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  Speaker 2: struggling in the Clippers Halo board.
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  Speaker 1: Gigs saved them. So it's really like a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff that's going on here, and it seems like it's
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  Speaker 2: going from bad to worst for the Clippers and for
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  Speaker 2: Kawhi in this situation because Honestly, why is it necessary
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  Speaker 2: to circumvent the cap? Like greed is a fascinating thing
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  Speaker 2: to me. There's more than enough money to go around.
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  Speaker 2: You can win above the board.
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  Speaker 1: People do it every single year.
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  Speaker 2: They managed to have high level players that get paid
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  Speaker 2: millions and millions of dollars and they still win championships.
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  Speaker 2: So this whole situation is very weird and very messy
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  Speaker 2: for the NBA, especially considering that Kawhai is supposed.
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  Speaker 1: To be traded to Toronto.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a lot of Shenanigan's going on, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure we'll get to the bottom of it very soon.
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