The WNBA just can't help self-destructing

Can you believe that this league has been around for 30 years? Can you also believe that in that 30 years the league has never manged to turn a profit? Certain teams have made modest profits but the league overall has ALWAYS lost money. In the grand scheme of things it isn't a lot of money, but if it wasn't for the NBA being branded in with them, they would have went out of business just like the several women leagues before it, quite some time ago.

I often feel as though the league exists for the sake of money laundering and nothing more. For whatever reason though, it is still here and because the NBA has become a lawless land where traveling, double dribble, and offensive fouls are just allowed; and the fact that the NBA season is too long, I started watching WNBA and was genuinely enjoying it.

But it seems they always find a way to shoot themselves in the foot and their latest completely unimportant controversy that they wont shut up about even though nobody really cares, is a good example of this.

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Sophie Cunningham, who is quite pretty and seems to be a nice person, has come front and center in WNBA news lately. It is because she is the best player? Not even close. If she gets 10 point in a game it is considered a very good game for her. Did she make some amazing defensive plays? Nope!

She is in the news non-stop these days because she did some sort of fashion something or other with her social-media and then some other players got envious and hard fouled her and got sent off from the game - which isn't something that often happens. DiJonai Carrington is the perpetrator of the hard foul and on her way back to the locker room she tweeted "White Privilege" but it was on that shitty Meta version of Twitter that nobody uses so I'm surprised anyone saw it.

While this could be a lot of things including an accident, what it definitely was is a very hard foul deserving of getting ejected. I don't think anyone can argue that.

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But the reporters turned it into something that I don't believe it ever was and that was something about transgenders. Neither one of these people are trans and neither of them are big-time representatives of the cause either. Sophie was asked a dumb question in an interview and she gave a non answer. It was about transgenders being in sports and she said what I think all rational people would say in that she feels that women's sports should be for women and that they should be protected as such.

That's obviously not a direct quote but Sophie was baited into the question and answered it about as kindly as someone can. Other players are asked the same dumbass question all the time but now it has become known to simply not answer it.

Now there are stupid quotes coming from all sides saying things like "The hate that is trying to destroy our league will not succeed" and of course there are press-releases about death threats and online hate which is the usual smoke and mirrors when any organization doesn't want to actually address the problem.

Why is the WNBA so afraid to say the obvious? If they were to allow trans athletes in their league they would soon find themselves with some men in wigs who couldn't make it in the NBA but would score 100 points a game in the WNBA. Next thing you know there wouldn't be any women on the teams and there isn't a need for a WNBA anymore.

Honestly I think it would be hilarious if they did allow transgender women into the league so the world could finally shut the eff up about all of this. It would be hilarious and humiliating for the players that both support and are opposed to this.

The WNBA knows that they cannot allow trans people into the game but yet they wont come out and say it. Why? They even have some coaches that seem to be working in the opposite direction as far as coming to a common-sense resolution to this fabricated and completely stupid argument.

if this article gets reposted to Reddit by some lunatic that does that sort of thing the Redditers would say that it is horrible (they would say much worse words than that) that someone would suggest (i'm not suggesting it) that trans people shouldn't be allowed to play in the WNBA, but outside of that bot-filled echo-chamber I believe that
this is something that WNBA fans can stand behind about 99.9%. Only the totally delusional women in this league believe the league would still be competitive if men were allowed into it.

But these days when you look for WNBA news, all you see is this made up controversy. A lot of people are deciding to turn their backs on the league because they refuse to say "no" to this, and a small amount of people who likely don't even watch it in the first place are saying they will boycott it if they don't get a 'yes'.

In the meantime parents who don't want to expose their kids to this level of nonsense are tuning out as well regardless of who the victor ends up being.

The WNBA has a flash-in-the-pan opportunity to capitalize on this attention that they are getting and it seems like every opportunity that they get, they choose to self-implode.

I still watch highlights every now and then but I can't bear to watch an entire game anymore, because half of it is political crap that doesn't have anything to do with basketball.