The WNBA Season Just Started And There Was Already An Insane Race Hoax
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11 days ago - Every so often you hear about so-called “uncontacted tribes.” These are people who have never had any interactions with the outside world. They’re out in the middle of nowhere, in places like the “Nicobar Islands” and the Amazon rainforest. And they’re obviously interesting to talk about, as evidenced by the millions of people who love watching documentaries and YouTube videos about them. Of course, the reason that these tribes capture people’s imagination is not because there is anything particularly desirable or admirable about their culture or way of life. Instead, they capture people’s imagination because they offer a glimpse into a world that — thankfully — we transcended. They’re fascinating because, every now and then, it’s encouraging to look at primitive people and think to ourselves: “As bad as things are, at least we aren’t still living like that.” We can use these tribes as an opportunity to reflect on all the human progress that’s occurred out here in civilization. Maybe no one will admit this out loud. But it’s true.And it’s not just “uncontacted tribes” who fill this role in modern society. They’re maybe the most prominent example, but they’re certainly not the only ones. In particular, in recent years, it’s become pretty apparent that the organization known as the “WNBA” serves a very similar function. The WNBA, very clearly, is not a viable product from an entertainment perspective. It loses tens of millions of dollars every year. There has never been a genuine business case for keeping the WNBA alive. Even with the historic level of interest the public now has in the league — historic by WNBA standards — it’s still not viable. Because literally all of that interest is focused on just one player, Caitlin Clark.And yet, with all that said, it’s time to admit that the WNBA, despite all appearances, isn’t actually useless — at least not completely. Like the tribesmen who have never heard of things like the “telephone” or “electricity,” the WNBA serves a purpose, albeit a very twisted one. In a sense, it exists outside of time and space. It’s a window into an alternative dimension, where humans didn’t respond to economic incentives or social pressures, or value things like “talent” or “competitiveness” or anything like that. The WNBA, because it’s propped up by Left-wing executives at the NBA who inexplicably have no problem losing large amounts of money every year, is immune from the normal demands of civilization as we know them. And in practice, that means that, if we take a look at how things are going at the WNBA, we can get a pretty good sense of how exactly the country would be doing, if we had gotten stuck back in 2020 and never moved on from the BLM race hysteria. Thanks to the WNBA, we don’t have to wonder about that anymore.Instead, all we have to do is tune into Opening Day of the 2025 WNBA season, which took place on Saturday. Yes, in just one day — the first day of the season — the WNBA, for all intents and purposes, completely fell apart. The entire league, which serves as the platonic ideal of a progressive enterprise, devolved instantaneously into a race hoax and some inevitable racial outrage. No one’s even pretending to talk about the different teams in the WNBA, or the “power rankings,” or whatever. Instead, once again, they’re talking about white supremacy and racism.WATCH: The Matt Walsh ShowThe drama officially began in the third quarter of a game between the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky. The Indiana Fever is the team that Caitlin Clark plays for. And the Chicago Sky is the name of the team that Caitlin Clark’s arch-nemesis, Angel Reese, plays for. If you’re cynical, you might conclude that the WNBA intentionally created this match-up for opening day in order to generate exactly the kind of racial controversy that followed. But for all I know, these are the only two teams that exist in the WNBA, so maybe they had to schedule it this way. Regardless, I’ll play the dramatic moment from the third quarter. Here it is:In case you missed it, we’ll play the relevant part back, in slow motion:As you can see, Angel Reese — number 5 — pushes another player with two hands, as she’s trying to get the rebound. Apparently, the player that Angel Reese pushed is named “Natasha Howard” or something like that. In any event, it’s a clear foul. But it’s not called. You can see that Caitlin Clark is stunned that the foul wasn’t called. She’s sticking out both arms in protest.And then, once Reese gets the rebound, Clark fouls her on purpose. This is called a “take foul” in basketball. And in context, the “take foul” makes sense. She wants to prevent Reese from getting the easy layup, so she has to foul quickly, before she begins the shot. (If she waits too long, then it’s a shooting foul, and a potential three-point play.)Now, if you watched this moment and you’re not an alien who’s completely unfamiliar with basketball or human interaction, it’s one of the least remarkable sequences that you can imagine: The refs blew a call. And then Clark attempted to end the play as quickly as possible, which every basketball player in her position is taught to do. It’s all very normal. Everything makes sense so far. But sense — common sense — is suspended in the WNBA. That’s why, moments after this incident took place, a reporter asked Caitlin Clark the single most loaded question that’s ever been asked in professional sports. Watch:Yeah, what “point were you trying to make” with that foul? Were you trying to say that black people should be enslaved again? Were you saying that the 2020 election was stolen? What specific genocide were you endorsing, when you committed that foul?This is the kind of ridiculous, obviously fake journalism that you see in the sports world all the time. But it’s particularly common in the WNBA. None of these reporters posed the same questions to Angel Reese when she elbowed Caitlin Clark in the head last year, or when she celebrated on the sideline when Clark was blindsided and knocked over by another player. None of these people have ever asked whether Brittney Griner is really a woman, either. They don’t care about questions that are actually grounded in reality. But they’re asking Caitlin Clark these very stupid questions because, in the alternative universe of the WNBA, they honestly believe that this kind of lazy race-baiting is still persuasive.But very few people are falling for it. Robert Griffin III, the former Redskins quarterback, was one of the most prominent voices to call out this fraudulent narrative. He wrote, “After watching Caitlin Clark’s flagrant foul on Angel Reese and the aftermath, there is no way Angel Reese can continue the lie that she doesn’t dislike Caitlin Clark. I know what hatred looks like. Angel Reese HATES Caitlin Clark. Not some ‘basketball rivalry hate’ either. Hate.”RG3 also posted commentary about the incident, in which he pointed out all the other times that Reese has attacked Caitlin Clark, physically and otherwise. And then he pointed to Reese’s own words, in which she described herself as one of the league’s villains. Here’s part of what he said:Angel Reese hates Caitlin Clark.It’s staring us all right in the face, but people are afraid to say it.Won’t answer questions about Caitlin Clark.Gets mad when people praise Caitlin Clark for the explosion of popularity around Women’s Basketball.Celebrates when her… pic.twitter.com/mQddPuUAvK— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) May 18, 2025You can agree or disagree with RG3’s perspective, or not care in the slightest either way. Regardless, in the world of sports commentary, RG3’s statements crossed a very clear line. He refused to endorse the latest narrative of racial grievance. And therefore, various commentators lined up to attack him in extremely personal terms. No one was more eager to attack RG3 than Ryan Clark, the former NFL player. Watch as Clark unloads on RG3 — not for his opinions, but for the crime of marrying a white woman. Apparently, because his wife is white, RG3 is disqualified from commenting on any topic involving Caitlin Clark. Watch:It’s an incredible window into how racial politics, in every case, demolishes any potential for civilized, rational discussion. It’s a race to the bottom, every single time. Instead of talking about arguments or substance, everything boils down to your skin color — or your wife’s skin color, in this case. And from what I can tell, executives at the WNBA realized how bad this whole narrative was going for them. Therefore, in order to distract from the fake Caitlin Clark controversy and the transparent anti-white rhetoric that ensued, they concocted the idea that the crowd at this game had actually unleashed racial slurs on Angel Reese and her teammates.This is the AP’s report on the ongoing investigation: “The WNBA is investigating racial comments directed toward Angel Reese by fans during the Chicago Sky’s loss to Caitlin Clark and the Fever at Indiana on Saturday, according to a person familiar with the situation. The person spoke to The Associated Press on Sunday on condition of anonymity because the league had not publicly identified the subject of the taunts or who made the allegations. ‘The WNBA strongly condemns racism, hate, and discrimination in all forms — they have no place in our league or in society,’ the league said in a statement. ‘We are aware of the allegations and are looking into the matter.'” The article adds that the WNBA Players Union also released a statement, which asserted that “unacceptable” and “hateful” comments were uttered during the game.Now, if this sounds familiar, it’s exactly what happened last September, when I last made the mistake of talking about the WNBA. Back then, there were reports that slurs had been directed at Brittney Griner while he/she/they was playing a game. But, curiously enough, no audio or video surfaced that proved anyone was uttering those slurs. Even though there were television cameras and smartphones everywhere in the stadium, no one caught any of these naughty words on video. And once again, that’s the case here. No one can quote these “racial comments,” or point to any proof they occurred. In fact, Tyler Marsh, the head coach of the Chicago Sky, said he didn’t hear any slurs from courtside. The first time he heard about any alleged slurs was when the media told him about them. Watch:Well, it looks like the KKK ghosts are back again. After their first appearance in September, they’ve returned to torment the WNBA for reasons that no one can explain. On opening night, these racist ghosts once again purchased tickets to see WNBA games, because of course, racists love spending money on the WNBA. And then, as the game progressed, the racist ghosts decided to drop n-bombs that only the players could hear. The coaches couldn’t hear them. The TV cameras and cell phones couldn’t pick them up. But rest assured, the ghosts were definitely being racist. And we should all be very troubled by their behavior.The WNBA explicitly encourages narratives like this to develop. In fact, just this year, they launched something called “No Space for Hate,” which the AP describes as “a multi-dimensional platform designed to combat hate and promote respect across all WNBA spaces both online and in arenas.” In other words, they have a whole program that’s designed to lend credibility to the idea that random people are buying tickets to WNBA games, only to unleash racial slurs once they get there.In reality, as you can tell from the footage of this game that was uploaded online, the handful of people in attendance weren’t being racist. They were booing, though, because the product the WNBA sells — from the quality of the referees to the quality of most of the players — is complete garbage. The booing is evident in many videos. But the racial slurs were not. And that’s why, when she was asked about these alleged racial slurs, Angel Reese rattled off a few meaningless statements — including a reference to the WNBA policy on “hate speech.” But at no point did she describe the allegedly “racist” remarks that she presumably would have heard, since she was on the court. Watch:She’s not exactly talking like someone who actually heard anything during the game. Even if you don’t know anything about this particular incident, it doesn’t sound remotely like she’s telling the truth. Instead, she’s making it very clear, once again, that she’s an actor, and not a particularly convincing one. Her job, as RG3 pointed out, is to play the villain of the WNBA, so that they can generate some drama. These people believe that if they generate enough fake storylines about racist fans and non-existent flagrant fouls, then people might actually watch the games. And then they can scrape together some cash instead of losing another $40 million this year.But it won’t work, for the same reason that the BLM hysteria of 2020 ultimately didn’t work. The WNBA is the perfect encapsulation of every deranged impulse of modern leftism that the rest of society is rejecting. The hoaxes simply aren’t effective anymore. Manufactured narratives about phantom acts of racism, without any kind of evidence whatsoever, convince no one. And yet, for all the millions of dollars they burn every year on high-priced consultants, the WNBA is one of the few remaining organizations on the planet that doesn’t seem to realize this. The WNBA stands, virtually alone, as a reminder of what this country would have looked like if we hadn’t reversed course after the George Floyd hysteria and the “defund the police” movement and so on. And in that sense — and only that sense — it’s fair to say that the WNBA, against all odds, actually does serve something of a purpose. It’s a reminder of a giant bullet that this country dodged. And every time the league releases a dumb statement about “legitimate basketball plays,” or some 80-IQ sports commentator accuses Caitlin Clark of racism for committing a foul, we should thank God that the rest of the country has nothing in common with the WNBA.
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