@ClayTravis While Pat Murphy’s rule with the Brewers is - miss the anthem, miss the game. It’s pretty simple.
— Matt Schaefer (@mschaef02) October 20, 2026
October 22, 2026
Isn't the WNBA trying to build its audience?
That's my question as I'm reading "Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries skip national anthem for third straight WNBA Finals game/The Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries jogged off the court before the anthem in all three games of the series" (Fox News).
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There is no room in the WNBA for people like Pat Murphy.
LOL!
The WNBA is run by women. Nasty leftist thug women.
It is not run by people trying to grow an audience or build a system.
What Achilles said.
I want to get mad, but it's literally the WNBA. Does anybody care? It's like getting mad about the Cracker Barrel logo. Who cares?
I watch Clay Travis and I just shake my head. The WNBA is about 80 percent blacks. Black women on of the most leftwing, Democrat groups in the USA, they voted against Trump 90 percent.
If there's on thing they aren't - its "America First".
And they don't have an audience. They have a 11 year contract which brings in $220 million a year. Their rinky dink gyms they play in sell out. The NBA covers their operating costs. The players arent going to get much more $$ by "Building an audience".
Plus, the Current WNBA audience doesn't really care that they bully the white girl, or don't stand for the national anthem. They just want to see giant black lesbians put the ball through the hoop.
The WNBA is the Angie Nixon of professional sport.
It may seem like I like this quote, but I hate that it fits so much, because a lot of things would be better if it didn't.
"... I take away reason and accountability".
If you're going to get upset at the WNBA for blowing off the national anthem, that sort of anti-american lack of patriotism, pales in comparison to our "leaders" in DC who support Amnesty, open borders, and refusing to enforce the immigration laws. Many of them don't mind foreigners voting in USA elections.
Why stand for the anthem, when USA citizenship is meaningless.
The problem with having leftist run any organization is that the purpose of the organization becomes an afterthought, if a thought at all.
Let's talk about something more important that impacts all of us, like the ethanol subsidy.
Bernie (Fake-VT) is a perfect example. Mad as hell that ICE is enforcing the immigration laws. Loves Amnesty. Hates anyone trying to stop foreigners from voting in our elections.
He doesnt care about the USA's borders, but he does care about Ukraine's. He wants to give them another $200 Billion. Why help poor Americans when you can give Zelensky money to kill people? But that why he's the peoples champion.
You want to be famous and popular? Walk out and stand there by yourself.
Imagine having a job where you have to publicly disrespect your country and your customers to keep your job. Talk about a hostile work environment.
When all the black NFL players were refusing to stand for the national anthem or demanding they also play "the black national anthem" during the 1st trump administration, the NBA players stayed out of it. Remember that? And Kapernick?
It could be they were just smarter. Or maybe since you're on the basketball court already its no big deal to stand for 2 minutes. Plus, the fans are right there, up close and personal. They probably didn't want to be booed and showered with abuse.
Everyone hates America until they are locked up in a Russian prison on drug charges.
Was there really any problem with Tiger Woods getting into the PGA, as he implies. I don't remember that. I thought he welcomed and celebrated. He wasn't the first Asian to win a major championship.
Yesterday the WNBA rejected Enes Kanter's claim, declaring him "a man". There's an upside to this. Perhaps in being unable to define what a woman is, the definition can be found - through process of elimination - for what a woman is not.
We now have definitive proof that simply claiming to be transgender does not automatically qualify womanhood.
Thank you Will Never Be A woman league for clearing this one up. We have several additional candidates forthcoming for you to refuse, providing further clarification of the most important question of our time - what is a woman?
Thank you for your cervix!
“They just want to see giant black lesbians put the ball through the hoop.”
Then why are you watching the WNBA? Blown layups in a championship game???
Sims in transition.
Based on the officiating in the in the game where the Indiana Fever was eliminated, I would say that professional women’s basketball is not a true sport — it is the 21st century equivalent of pro wrestling in the days of Gorgeous George. The refs are made aware of such team is supposed to win and they make it happen.
Diversity.
The WNBA players and many of the spectators present see standing for the U.S. national anthem as a degrading humiliation ritual, and they want no part of it. You cannot impose traditional American values and customs on the WNBA players and their fan base, especially after decades of anti-white and anti-American indoctrination through a flawed educational system. To be honest, the best approach is to move on and let this sideshow burn through the capital of the sportsball oligarchs.
…it’s girls volleyball, you didn’t miss anything…
It’s bad form to keep insisting I need to lay attention to it…
“Isn't the WNBA trying to build its audience?”
I watched a few minutes of it once. I can’t believe they actually have an audience. I suspect their “fans” are mostly CGI.
The sports media always has to act like blacks - in a sport where they don't dominate - are pushing against invisible racists forces.
There was pushback against Tiger when he first burst onto the scence. But that was because Tiger was young and full of beans and broke some of the unbroken rules of the PGA. Like swearing like a sailor in front of the crowd.
After a while, he started to behave like a champion. And he's now the grand old man of Golf.
The sportswriters went nuts when Tiger started winning in the 90s. Take that white men! Finally, Golf gets a Jackie Robinson. A 1990s muhammad Ali that will push leftism and talk about the racism in Golf.
Then the Press became sad. Tiger regarded himself as a racial mix, more asian then black. And he was the son of Vietnam Vet and quite patriotic.
LeBron James practicing his golf swing during the anthem:
https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/2113251858634756143
D.D. Driver said...
Everyone hates America until they are locked up in a Russian prison on drug charges.
In the men’s prison.
"Tiger regarded himself as a racial mix, more asian then black."
I believe he said he was "Cablinasian."
I watched some WNBA play once, and it looked like a bunch of 5 year olds playing. That's why Kaitlyn Clark stood out. She can actually play well.
Mezzerow at 9:31 wins the thread
A ball game is not a patriotic event. The anthem is there historically to get the crowd to shut up and pay attention and stop milling around. It was enforced by self-appointed patriots.
Same as flag salutes and Bible readings at the start of the school day.
The general rule is: if it's on display, it's not patriotism.
Mostly, WNBA bimbos are just confirming suspicions that they are a bunch of whiny ingrates. OTOH, despite the potential financial benefits they understand that people are paying to watch Clark kick their asses.
Rhhardin: It wasn't "enforced" any more than turkey on Thanksgiving is enforced. It's a cultural tradition that Americans have been happy to partake in for decades.
It's being enforced right in the story.
Hombre said...
"..they understand that people are paying to watch Clark kick their asses..."
which is WHY they Hate her So Much
Now that Caitlin's team has been eliminated, it's unlikely that the dozens of remaining fans care about the national anthem.
The solution, of course, is to postpone playing the anthem until the players are on the court. Simple.
Free speech works well when its exercise by others clearly identifies your enemies.
It seems that assuming being engaged before being alienated is the wrong assumption.
imagine getting paid TENS OF THOUSANDS of dollars (a year) to play a kid's game..
THEN, some white girl shows up, and SUDDENLY; actual people are watching you play.. and PAYING MONEY to do so..
obviously, that would be unbareable; and you'd HAVE TO get rid of her.
right?
i mean, right?
"Now that Caitlin's team has been eliminated, it's unlikely that the dozens of remaining fans care about the national anthem. @10/22/26, 11:41 AM"
"Now that the Indiana Fever has been eliminated the ratings plug has been pulled for the WNBA. This not an altogether bad thing either. The gay race communists, their athletes, stupes, lackeys, and some sports ball oligarchs may take hit but so what?
Give the Golden State Valkyries a soundtrack by Richard Wagner and a halftime show put on by the San Francisco Opera and they might attract a whole new demographic.
Would alienating the Caitlin Clark fans be more damaging than losing the Sophie Whatshername fans? That seems like a bigger worry - at least so far as the male demographic is concerned.
That's fine, I'm skipping their games entirely.
Rh needs to wake up. Its not 1975 anymore. The people with power agree with you. You can burn the US flag. You piss on the US flag. you can cuss the USA down one way and up the other. You can demand foreigners vote. You can demand foreigners can invade the country and stay as long as they please.
And the people with power will applaud.
Of course, you'd better not attack Israel, or burn the Israeli flag. 'Cause that's different.
Nobody is patriotic anymore. And if they are, they're Israeli patriots. Look at Huckabee and 1/2 our Congress. Man, they fly israeli flags, cry when and endlessly give standing O' to their leader, Netenyahu, and will wring your neck if don't want to "stand by Israel and fight for its right to exist".
But the USA? Whatever. We're just a place to make money.
Ignore the twits.
*the NBA players stayed out of it. *
What planet are you on? The NBA took the lead from the NFL, and made it 10 times worse.
"rhhardin said...
It's being enforced right in the story."
The story is wrong. The WNBA regulations do state that the teams should stand in a respectful posture during the Anthem but that policy requirement was suspended several years ago. There are some indications that the WNBA has adopted a policy similar to the official policy of the NFL which is essentially either Stand or Sit in the locker room, as some WNBA players have been ejected for kneeling during the Anthem.
On the broader topic of enforcement, there is no federal law that requires the Anthem be played, and only a limited number of states or localities have passed such ordinances.
Basically, the professional sportsball organizations don't have balls (literally in one case) to just dispense with playing the Anthem even though there's nothing that says they have to continue to do it. So we all get treated to this disrespectful bullshit.
Jim is correct. I was thinking of the Kapernick nonsense. But during the 2020 BLM crap NBA players were refusing to particpate in the national anthem. Per Grok
"During the 2020 NBA "Bubble" restart in Orlando, Florida, the vast majority of NBA players and coaches did refuse to stand for the national anthem.
Instead of standing, players and coaches collectively chose to kneel and lock arms during "The Star-Spangled Banner".
However, they did not refuse to attend the anthem ceremony. They remained on the court, lining up along the baseline to execute the demonstration as a unified group."
Its says a lot about black people that their number 1 motivator is someone being mean to crooks.
"rhhardin said...
It's being enforced right in the story."
The story is wrong. The WNBA regulations do state that the teams should stand in a respectful posture during the Anthem but that policy requirement was suspended several years ago."
The enforcement I meant was by self-appointed patriots in the crowd, here the outrage on the internet, for example. As if it were actual patriotism to stand for the anthem.
The players and I are on different sides - I claim it's a self-deluding convention and they think it's real patriotism and they want to rebuff it. My complaint is about the outrage, rather than the players' point of view.
If it's on display, it's not patriotism. Try to think of a form of patriotism that isn't displayed, and then think of the difference.
Is this an example of niche marketing?
I am guessing this plays well with the people who buy WNBA tickets.
Guess WNBA fanbase is at most 4% MAGA.
I watched one game for about a half an hour. There were a couple of competent plays, but also some outstandingly lame ones and nothing that had a Wow factor like you see with men There are a couple of exceptions but the girls aren't that hot and the uniforms don't do anything for them......It's not such a great product. Maybe they can sell a few more tickets with Caitlin Clark or make it racist rollerball, but it's just not very interesting to watch.
"Jim at said...
Ignore the twits."
That would dramatically reduce the time it takes to get through the comments.
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