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Chapter 1: What news broke about Trump's tariffs?
And yes, I should get points for knowing the names of both of those teams. The Indiana Fever is, of course, the team of Kaitlyn Clark, who's the only player in the WNBA who seems to matter right now. And the Chicago Sky are the team of Angel Reese, who is sort of her arch nemesis and has been since her college days. We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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Chapter 2: How did the court rule on Trump's tariffs?
There's no place for that in our game. There's no place for that in society. And, you know, certainly we want every person that comes into our arena, whether player, whether fan, to have a great experience. So I appreciate the league doing that. I appreciate, you know, the Fever organization has been at the forefront of that since, you know, really day one and what they're doing.
So we'll, you know, hopefully the investigation, we'll leave that up to them to find anything and take the proper action.
Well, I mean, she needed to say that because if she hadn't said that, then you would have thought that the WNBA was just filled with deep, and abiding racism, obviously. And of course, this is not the first time that Caitlin Clark has been forced to go to the camera and then speak the words, say the thing.
So not all that long ago, 2024, December, she came out and she had to acknowledge her own white privilege. Now, can we be clear about this? If Caitlin Clark were not in the WNBA, we would not be talking about the WNBA. She's the only ticket draw in the WNBA. A large percentage of all tickets sold in the WNBA are so people can watch Caitlin Clark play basketball. No one cares about Angel Reese.
She'd be drawing flies if she were playing not against Caitlin Clark on the court right now. Angel Reese has basically become the Bill Lane beer to Caitlin Clark's Larry Bird, essentially. That is where we now are.
Well, here was Kaitlyn Clark back in December acknowledging her white privilege because there were so many players in the WNBA who were getting angry that people are out watching Kaitlyn Clark. Really, this is a thing inside the WNBA. There are a bunch of players in the WNBA who are angry that Kaitlyn Clark is bringing notoriety to their sport.
Their idea is, why didn't people watch the WNBA before? The answer is because Kaitlyn Clark is uniquely talented and yes, uniquely appealing. And is some of that based on race? Well, I mean, there are other white players in the WNBA who don't have remotely this kind of following. So I really don't think that that's the reason. She was a wildly popular player when she was in college.
Was that also based on her race or based on the fact that she was hitting threes like an NBA player? Well, back in December, she actually had to issue a statement in which she suggested that there's an element of white privilege in her stardom.
Quote, I feel like I've earned every single thing that's happened to me over the course of my career, but I also grew up a fan of this league from a very young age. My favorite player was Maya Moore. I knew what this league was about. She said, like I said, the WNBA has only been around 25 plus years. Only, by the way. And they've never earned a profit until like this very moment, maybe.
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