Future Scenarios for the WNBA

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But There was an incident the other day between two teams, the Phoenix Mercury and the Indiana ver And the sensation of women's basketball is six feet tall former Iowa College basketball sensation Caitlin Clark And here's the rub. She was playing this game And she was knocked down two or three of the Phoenix Mercury team members kind of swarmed her. She almost got a knee in the head and one U One player, Alicia Thomas was sort of resting on her and then took her fist and pressed right onto her jugler vein or throat and her neck If that had happened just out in public public sphere if you saw somebody knock somebody down and then sort of rest on top of them and put that on their neck. It would be a felony assault But this was in a basketball game. and what made It worse was the referees were right there. They not only did not call a flagrant foul, they didn' they didn't react to it It was only when the people who were watching the game got so angry in public opinion that the league then, I guess forced the referees to rescind and they assessed Thomas Ofal, it was only one day suspension. So what is going on Well what's going on according to the popular press? I'm not sure if I'm qualified to adjudicate that is that The league is mostly sixty five to seventy percent black that kind of mirror images completely meraocratic lead Mirr images the NBA. and many of the black players, as true of women's sports has a higher percentage of lesbians. than the normal population And all of a sudden this white girl from Iowa six feet tall who you might think would be under the basket rebounding in women's basketball She's kind of lanky, but she turns out to be one of the best outside shooters in the history of women's basketball So for her first two seasons, she was roughed up a bit But she took the league by storm and she continued her historic excellence that came out of College to basketball with the Iy with the University of Iowa team and and she parlayed that into excellent play and kind of skyrocket the Indiana professional team But here's the problem. She's she's For good or evil or happy or sad, she's responsible for many estimates of a twenty five percent increase in revenue. notot to mention, millions of people are watching. women's basketball because she is such a different type of player, not because of her sexual orientation that is heterosexual, her race, which is white, but because she has a finesse. She's a great passasser and she can shoot from the outside Now you would think the leeague would welcome that and highlight it But what's happened is attention has turned to the low attendance prior leag to the high attendance, high revenue new league because of. Kaitln Clark partart of it is is jealousy part of it may be race or sexual orientation, but whatever the cause is players often are acting against their own self interests beating her up. The subtext is that she's lanky and tall and she shoots from the outside So they're going to rough her up. and the Fox News not long ago listed a series of ten or more incidents where she had a ruptured eardrum, she was slammed in the game I'm speaking of. She was knocked down by another player in a fagment fowl And so it't seem to be it doesn't seem to make sense. Why are they doing that? Why are the players trying to systematically hurt someone. Now maybe it's just strategy of basketball that if you intimidate her enough and she goes out on the or and think somebody's not going to be playing normal basketball but try to hurt me, then her shooting will be off, her passing will be off. psychologically she'll be dambaged and that's happened. third year has not been as impressive. as her first two And she's got racked up a series of knee and back injuries what's the general public that how has been attracted to this new phenomenon of Caitln Clark is very angry because what they see is a systematic reverse racism that bllack women players resent the attention Caitlin Clark is getting and the new audiences that she's winning and even the new revenue of which they are a beneficiary and they believe that they're going to play tough physical basketball and injure her and at least injure her or at least psychologically terror into her so she doesn't have the same excellence as she' had before That's pretty clear if you look at the list of injuries. Now What's going to happen Well There's only ree threeree alternatives U If you look at the sports commentary, it's divided the left of center sports riders. and by the way, sports riders are among the most left wing of all journalists. I don't know how that's They used to be middle of the road or conservative, but now they are left wing. I think it's because of DEI. and they see sports as a social experiment sort of. They fault Clarark and they say, Well, she's just too sensitive. She's a whiner. She complains She looks for injuries that are not there or she just has to grow up, this is the big leagues, that kind of stuff but not the general public. And not many of the players, they know what's going on They know what's going on. Again, what will happen firstirst is If The owners of the league, the commissioner, the referees and the players continue this then she will be permanently disabled maybe in a year or two, injured or she'll be so intimidated that she understands she's not playing basketball, but playing football. or mix martial arts and people are going to try to hurt her. and she knows that. And more importantly, she knows that the referees will not enforce it because they are either afraid of the other teams or the management or they are afraid of the players. or they sympathize with the players? Who knows, but they have not been doing their job And then she will be injured. She will leave the Lid. People be very angry and the league will resind back into obscurity and go broke probably because it won't just be neutral. great gain in revenue and attention that it's gotten because of Caitlyin Clark. If she's gone and forced out and injured, there will be a double reaction. It won't just be that they will lose her New fans, they will lose old fans too. The second is that she just says, why do I have to put up with this I know what's going on. They know what's going on. Nobody wants to stop it. It's racism pretty clear it's racism if she were black and perhaps homosexuals, she wouldn't have these problems. peopleople say So there would be some problems because envy and jealousy is a natural human condition, but there wouldn't be this extent of problem. So she just says, I'm going to leave I'm going to go to Europe where these problems don't exist to the same degree. and I will have my own career. I'll do very well and bye bye see you wouldn't want to be you WNBA or three And I the referees will get together, the management will get together cooaches will get together. the players will get together and they will say privately, we know what's going on with everybody. We are trying to hurt this woman some of us are And some of us know that others are trying to hurt or they're not doing anything And we've got to stop it. We've got to stop it for financial reasons because it's going to hurt us. And we're on the verge of becoming mainstream and very, very wealthy and prosperous. and we're going to destroy ourselves. We're going to commit collective suicide. So it has to stop. It's wrong, it's racist It's sexist and we're not going to do it anymore. and we're not going to pick on one particular player and try to injure off those three Um alternatives. She now quits and goes to Europe and saves her career and flourishes. the league suffers The Lague reforms and stops it or she's permanently disabled. I have a feeling it's going to be number one tragically that they're not going to do enough or they're not going to do anything and someone is going to put either punch her in the neck or kick her in the back are knock her flat and she's going to be permanently injured or so psychologically traumatized that she knows that she can't shoot, she can't pass, and she's going to retire. And I think that is the purpose of a lot of the players doing this. And nobody in this racially charged country can speak explicitly in the truth, but that's the truth This is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal Thank you for tuning in to the Daily Sal Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website at Victorhansen. com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition