WNBA IS BRAIN DEAD

The WNBA leadership are the most tone deaf and brain dead people in the history of sports ownership and management.

Having just spent weeks of pressure and a likely EEOC investigation over the WNBA's discrimination against white, heterosexual players the WNBA sent Paige Buekers out to national TV to talk about the need for more black women head coaches.  Buekers began her WOKE worship service by claiming black women built the WNBA.  Not entirely true since the WNBA started with 46% white women.   Moreover, to be brutally honest the willingness of NBA owners to subsidize the Welfare National Basketball association for the league's first 28 seasons, and those owners are almost entirely white, really built the WNBA.  Finally, the league was a boring, virtually unknown niche sport that wasn't really built by anyone before Caitlin Clark, a white heterosexual woman, that transformed the WNBA's profile and popularity.

Even if Buekers had a point, her point was a call for more racial discrimination; hiring black women coaches because they are black women regardless of qualification is the very definition of racial and gender discrimination.  The Owl doesn't have much love for Chief Justice Roberts but he best framed the issue.  "Perhaps the best way to end racial discrimination is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."

Racial discrimination in coaching does not appear to be a problem in the WNBA.  Recently, Teresa Weatherspoon was the Chicago HC, produced a .325 record, had a locker room so out of control Chennedy Carter and Angel Reece could be heard screaming at each other from the locker room during a press conference not being held in the locker room.  Noelle Quinn was fired at Seattle after first describing herself as a gangster straight out of Compton and then a player revolt that demanded Quinn's termination.  It is much easier to fire the coach than fire the team in professional sports and no one really wants a gangster as the face of a professional sports franchise.  

Twenty four black women have served as head coaches in the WNBA history, in only 30 seasons.  The WNBA has always been a small league so there haven't been may head coaching jobs.  The WNBA started with only 8 teams, moved to 10 in its second season, 12 in 1999, 16 from 2000-2002, back to 14 in 2003, 13 in 2004-2005, 14 in 2006, back to 13 in 2007, back to 14 in 2008, 13 in 2009, 12 from 2010-2024, 13 in 2005 and 15 this season.  To put that in perspective, there have been more teams and more HC opportunities in  the National Lacrosse League.  There just aren't many HC openings in any given WNBA season and a lot of .

Buekers and the WNBA race baiting and grievance hustling was poorly timed and did not go down so well with the black basketball commentariat.  Check out Ben Daniels and KTV podcasts from earlier today.   These people are too stupid to simply get out of their own way.