MyNorthWest: WNBA star Sue Bird implies you’re a bigot if you don’t watch women’s basketball. It’s not just a lazy argument, it’s a quick way to push people away from your league. What’s worse, Bird suggests a whopper of a factually inaccurate point that undermines the very argument she makes.
Every year, we have the same conversation around the popularity (or lack thereof) of women’s basketball. This time there’s the questionable decision to compare it to women’s soccer.
There’s a harsh reality that too many refuse to acknowledge: The marketplace isn’t as interested as WNBA stars and fans would like it to be. There’s ways to address this and grow the league, to a point, but insulting the vast majority of the population is probably a bad strategy. read more here
There’s an NBA for women?
I don’t watch ANY of you whiney crybabies in to Pro- or wannabe Pro sports.
Why don’t you do like Robinson and all too few others and put some effort into helping those less fortunate, ya fucking ingrate?
I don’t know if it was Jim Rome or somebody else, but that person came up with the term HORSEKETBALL and I fell out of the chair laughing.
It was part of commentary on how they were saying the same exact thing 10, 15 years ago that they were saying now and he was sick of it so he trashed their looks.
suck ****
You can make up for it by watching women’s beach volleyball.
It’s an Olympic caliber sport too.
Great timing with your trivial whining, Sue. Nobody is caring even harder right now.
Or maybe you think women’s basketball sucks.
Sue Bird can eat a bag of crusty dicks.
Sure, I want to spend my spare time watching a bunch of dykes dribbling a ball. I don’t think so.
I’m entitled to a large fan base! I put my 6.9 ft frame through hell out on that court for your enjoyment so enjoy me!
By the way, you men up in the stands that keep laughing and throwing objects at me while I’m playing YOU ARE NOT FUNNY!
Well, I guess I’m a bigot…
Who?
What?
Wait…….what?! There’s a Women’s National Basketball League!? Who knew?! Color me surprised!
I’m not interested in the Big Boys’ politicized on-court antics, so I’m thinking I’d be even less interested in the women’s hardwood harpings.
“Change My Mind”
Hey Sue – I don;t watch women’s basketball because I don’t watch basketball, PERIOD! So you can go eat shit and die for all I care! ;^)
Lackluster athletic competition + wokeness = poor ratings. That’s it. We aren’t bigots, you just don’t offer a product we want.
Actually, it’s because it’s unwatchable. The NBA has become that way, too. Endless pick and roll, pick and pop and launches from beyond the three point line. Both leagues have cemented themselves in growing obscurity by insulting half of their potential audience. I fear the college game is next.
I’ve never watched pro basketball of any kind. Too much showboating. Maybe move the basket up to 12 or 13 feet and ban grabbing the hoop.
If I had to watch sports and IF they were scantily clad, sure, I would.
Would you like some cheese with that whine?
Yes Sue I hate to break it to you, but there ARE differences between men and women. Sucks for you.
IF I want to watch lesbians playing with each other, there´s always pornhub
Get some real women playing aaand lets see, eh!
Why is it that every actor or sports player is always identified as a Star or celebrity? Pure mislabeling bunk!
Im not bigoted anymore, Sue. I dont watch anything that has the letters NBA attached to it
She can imply anything she wants, I’m not going to imply anything. Sue Bird is a worthless cunt.
“Bigot?”
“ORIGIN
late 16th century (denoting a superstitious religious hypocrite): from French, of unknown origin.”
“A superstitious religious hypocrite?” for not watching WNBA?
Can’t see the connection.
But … OK … I’ll play … Who gives a fuck what you think, you fuckin moron?
You dribble a ball for a living and you want more money for doing (virtually) nothing. Why not just say so and quit being a superstitious religious hypocrite about it?
izlamo delenda est …
watch nba in the years before: bling, jungle-ball playing, tatoos, kneelers, woke-tards, etc.
I admit I am a BB junkie and was a fairly good player in my day. When I watch BB I want to see players that are BETTER than me. The WNBA does not fulfill that requirement. I’ve played against some top women college players including an all-Pac 10 women’s center and also a member of the Canadian national women’t team. I was surprised at how easily I dominated them (while in my late 30s). If I had a sex change operation I could still play in the WNBA and probably be a star. Come to think of it – – I’m going to arrange for that very operation today.
Kind of like all these annoying feminist leading roles destroying great movie franchises and causing movie-goers to avoid them: woman’s basketball just ain’t sexy in any way for men. Now, if they were wearing lingerie…
Not liking the WNBA means you probably like exciting basketball.
I could record it and not watch it later, but I think I’d rather record the Paint Drying Regional Semi-Finals.
Give me complete control over recruiting players and uniform design and I’ll make women’s basketball the most popular sport in history.
you know what could improve pro ball? Make the court twice as long and twice as wide with Max height 6′.
If it were being played by the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, maybe!
Billy Fuster – and you’ll probably have better luck growing boobs than the WNBA women. Women’s estrogen dries up when they become super athletes.
Wait. I’m not sure that’s a compliment.
A very liberal executive at work took his adopted half black daughters to their first WNBA game. They left in first quarter because of rude, repulsive, obnoxious fans. After he quit whining I told him I’m willing to bet the dikes on the floor and lesbians in the stands all came from liberal households. Within a few months his bumper stickers disappeared. He got down to one ring and no more bracelets, ear rings, or Birkenstocks.
Women’s sports never had me watching them. I sometimes watched women’s softball, but that’s the extent of it. So I guess I’m considered a bigot. May as well add the name to the list of deplorables, irredeemable, and nasty. That’s quite a combination going on there, but I wear each name proudly.
Same cohort playing and watching it and women’s soccer……’nuff said.
If I wanted to watch a bunch of lesbians running around I’d watch PornHub where at least they are attractive….or so I;m told.