Just finished BG’s book and I genuinely do not get why people hate so hard on her. She has survived so much just for players she paved a way for to let their boyfriends make dumb jokes about her? It feels like every guy I know has made that stupid “shooter for big” joke and I’m sick of it. How can anyone hear what she went through and not root for her?? So Jada is still on my bad side.
YOU TOO KIM MULKEY OMFG
She was her COACH BG won her a championship and she wouldn’t even comment on her detainment or reach out after she got home?? Kim Mulkey they could never ever make me like you.
Dawn is truly the epitome of leadership —investing in these young ladies lives beyond the court and beyond the sport!
Trash talking is literally part of sport. So is getting physical! And that’s the making of rivalries. Emotions are high and defending your teammates….It comes with the territory of sports! And there’s a lot that rightfully should get discussed with the way the refs officiated this game.
Now to Kim….
A coach wanting to fuel the already heated flames and instigating what if’s is where the issue comes in!
And I’m not going down the route of Coach Dawn Staley exhibited “class” because just a few years ago, everyone was saying the total opposite of her and her girls! The stereotypical talks Black women and girls get for excelling and being competitive in what they do.
Now, suddenly she’s “classy” in comparison to Mulkey only on the fact of how she addressesd it but everyone has always shown bias and respectability politics with Coach Staley anyway. Come a couple days, media will say something to be racist towards her and their program. Unfortunately.
Dawn knows that any little thing gets the sports writers to speak negatively towards her and her girls. But also, it’s not even in her to speak the way Kim did. So it isn’t even about a Black woman having to show “class” to appease. This is who she genuinely is — as a person and as a coach.
These young women already get the trope of all things negative and whatnot and for Mulkey to speak in a way to instigate what she wishes by wanting them to be what the media falsely portrays them is terrible leadership! So just have your number one player, Angel, lean into what the media has been saying about her? That label already is attached to her. And you are supposed to set the tone and example for your team—they reflect you and you reflect them (that is all I’ll say on that). Wanting to cause a ruckus b/w these two Black players gives very much…I’ll hold my tongue. Unrelated but related, Becky Hammond reminds me of Mulkey for some reason.
The players have to learn to compartmentalize and better defuse their heightened emotions because at some point yes, you don’t want this stigma following you (because both Cardoso and Reese seem to slowly be getting this surrounding them) — they’re young but it still has to be learned but in no way should a coach be throwing rocks and encouraging that.
These young Black women are already having to fight against that rhetoric and narrative of all things bad yet she says this as a response. But that just shows how much white women don’t navigate the world the same way Black women have to. She is allowed to speak this way because she can.