Aside from my Huskies getting robbed on Friday, the Final Four in Cleveland was the absolute best weekend. Meeting some of the all time greats and being in the atmosphere that IS women’s basketball now was incredible 🥹
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LeBron James on Caitlin Clark: My advice to Caitlin, or to anyone that comes in with this level of notoriety, out-of-this-world expectation… be a horse, man. (…) Put your blinders on, go to work, show up to work, punch your clock in, prepare yourself, work on your game, work on your craft. You know… kind of keep your mouth shut and just learn from the vets. If they ask, voice your opinion, if they want your opinion that early on. Because everybody is looking for you to say anything and they’re gonna splice it and cut it, and make it a negative thing.
And I think for her, the one thing that I love that she’s bringing to her sport, more people want to watch. More people want to tune in. I saw for the first time, that they had a charter plane. For the first time in their league history, they flew private. That should be celebrated in its own right. Anyone that’s in sports that’s flown commercial, flown charter… that should be celebrated and it’s because of Caitlin Clark. Don’t get it twisted, don’t get it fucked up. Caitlin Clark is the reason why a lot of great things are gonna happen for the WNBA.
But for her individually, I don’t think she should get involved in nothing that’s being said. Just go, have fun, enjoy. People need to realize that the Indiana Fever, this is the second year in a row that they’ve had the number one pick. So you know what that means? That means they’re not that good. (…) People are just crazy about why she should be doing this, and they should be doing that. “If she’s so great, this team…” Like, it’s still a team game, people.
But I’m rooting for Caitlin because I’ve been in that seat before. I’ve walked that road before. I hope she kills. I hope Aliyah Boston does amazing. I hope they do great.
I’m just kind of in this mode right now, because I’m getting the same thing from watching my son, who’s a nineteen-year-old, get a lot of animosity and hatred towards him when he’s just a kid trying to live out his dream. There’s a very small number of men and women that actually get to live out their dream of playing a professional sport. We have grown ass men and women out here doing whatever they can to try to make sure that does not happen. That is the weirdest thing in the world, but it is what it is, and I’m glad that Caitlin has a great head on her shoulders, she seems like it. I don’t even think I’ve met her before, but it seems like everything is gonna be great for her because she’s a great talent and she seems like a great gal. I hope she turns that franchise around to where Tamika Catchings had it at one point.
can I just say, the way that racism is so normalized in the wbb community when basketball is a BLACK DOMINATED SPORT is so incredibly insane
I’m getting really tired of opening insta, twt, tiktok etc and just getting bombarded with hate and negativity
what’s crazy is y’all don’t even realize ur being racist, like that random “trend” that’s on tiktok of ppl literally comparing Chennedy Carter to monkeys??? it’s disgusting
and for y’all to sit here and continue to disrespect black women but claim to be “fans” when women like Tamika Catchings, Theresa Weatherspoon, Cynthia Cooper, Maya Moore, Lisa Leslie, Dawn Staley, Sheryl Swoopes and literally hundreds more have paved the way for what the WNBA is now. It just makes me sick, seriously.
erin has been at the last two liberty games in dallas on the broadcast saying she’s just following sandy around till they both go to phoenix today 😂
I love her omg!!! I should listen to those broadcasts! I think she was in Indiana, too! I saw a picture of her with Catch! She's seeing all her old teams
Throughout her college career there have been so many little invisible strings tying Caitlin to the Fever. She played at Gainbridge Fieldhouse for the B1G Ten Championship back in 2022 against Grace Berger who is on the Indiana Fever. Tamika Catchings was present at one of her games when she was a sohpmore in Indiana. Not to mention the time during her sophmore year where Erica Wheeler and Lin Dunn were courtside for one of her games.