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Heralding the incredible basketball prowess of Aliyah Boston. NCAA Nat'l Champion. WNBA ROTY. 2x All-Star. Bow. Bow. Bow.
Aliyah Boston has one of the GOAT resumes of any WBB player in history for her age: *2024: All-Star (2nd most fan votes), helping take Indiana Fever from 5-31 ('22) to 13-27 ('23) to playoff contention *2023: All-Star, Rookie of the Year *2022: Nat'l Champ, POTY with S. Carolina
Steph White admits to Holly Rowe that when Caitlin Clark returned from injury earlier this season she "didn't have any practice time" before gameplay! Did the Fever really rush CC back from injury with zero practice?! Wow sounds like coaching malpractice.
Fever hung in against the Liberty until the 4th with AB in foul trouble and sans CC. But couching was questionable. How long until Steph White loses the locker room like she did at Vanderbuilt? 9 starters transferred in 5 years (when transfers had to sit out a year no less!)
Steph White was 46-83 as head coach of Vandy. She had at least nine starters transfer schools. How can anyone blame AB and CC for wanting to do the same? Let's face it: the Fever made horrible hires in the offseason. One might even argue on purpose to sabotage their young stars.
Caitlin clark just said about being on a heater at the libertyy game: “if i make 1 or 2 i’m gonna launch a third, which isn’t advised by steph” AND YALL TRYNA CONVINCE ME STEPH THE RIGHT COACH FOR HER MAN FUCK YALL
Caitlin Clark is a massive concentrated risk. With CC now injured, WNBA can point to the *reverse* Clark effect. Ratings, sales, interest all imploding. They'll never agree to way more $ with the risk CC may be out -- why it was especially dumb for players to attack Clark!
What if Cathy Engelbert intentionally created an unsafe workplace for Caitlin Clark and other WNBA stars -- precisely because they'd get injured and have less leverage in CBA negotiations? Reffing only got worse this year. As did injuries. So was this Cathy's plan all along?
this game is so boring. no competitiveness whatsoever. bring back east vs west. wnba vs usa team. hell bring foreign all stars vs usa all stars. do something. give them a REAL money prize THIS IS UNWATCHABLE #WNBAAllStar
Fun fact: Rookie Paige Bueckers is actually older than five other All Stars this year, including Aliyah Boston, Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese as well as Rookies Sonia Citron and Kiki Iriafen.
AB looks fire here. But erasing Caitlin Clark from the promo for Team... Clark? The Lynx even put their coach and substitute All Star K-Mac. It's a choice, and the Fever org continue to make some bad choices.
"There have been 57 head and neck injuries in the past 2.5 seasons" in the WNBA. Big stars in concussion protocol this season, including A'ja Wilson, Paige Bueckers and Rickea Jackson. Clark's groin injury more common in the NFL. What will it take for player safety to matter?!
What if Cathy Engelbert intentionally created an unsafe workplace for Caitlin Clark and other WNBA stars -- precisely because they'd get injured and have less leverage in CBA negotiations? Reffing only got worse this year. As did injuries. So was this Cathy's plan all along?
Every decisionmaker and authority figure in the WNBA from Cathy Engelbert to the refs to the media to her own Fever org could not have botched things and squandered the golden goose that is Caitlin Clark much worse than they have the past 1.5 years.