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The 2024 WNBA All-Star Weekend was infinitely better than whatever the NBA tried to do this year. These women genuinely cared about the outcome and weren’t just having glorified layup lines.
Here are a few lessons I learned from watching this weekend:
1. I wish Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark hated each other
Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark spent the weekend complimenting each other and showing a true admiration for the other’s game while being excited to work together on Team WNBA.
Angel Reese on playing with Caitlin Clark:
“It’s so cool, when she gets the ball im running looking for the ball because I know she’s gonna throw it, she’s been great to play with. Hopefully in 4 years we’ll be Olympians together.” pic.twitter.com/Jddwe9T8Sc
— WNBA Rookie Watch (@WNBARookieWatch) July 21, 2024
CAITLIN CLARK TO ANGEL REESE CONNECTION 🍿#WNBAAllStar pic.twitter.com/nnjI75pyyj
— ESPN (@espn) July 21, 2024
How. Fucking. Boring.
I hate that all you weirdos made these two women become PR robots.
Caitlin Clark was raised by tumbleweed and saw the basketball court as a hunting ground.
Kim Mulkey was waking those LSU girls up in the morning like scared straight, pots and pans slamming, so they could lift stone dumbells at 5 in the morning.
Why aren’t people allowed to just not like each other these days? Now Caitlin and Angel have to pretend to be polite acquaintances when they should be visually struggling not to call the other a bitch when cameras are near.
Social media created an army of losers addicted to receiving that little red notification symbol when they intentionally say stupid nonsense to argue for attention.
I pray the Fever and Sky find themselves in an important, high-stakes game so the real Caitlin and Angel can bleed out and one swings on the other.
2. Breanna Stewart and A’Ja Wilson are the best in the world
A’Ja Wilson will and should win the 2024 WNBA MVP. Leading the league in points, rebounds and blocks, A’Ja is so clearly a different level of athlete than most of the women she’s competing against.
She scored 22 points on 8-for-13 shooting with 3 steals and a block. A’Ja Wilson is the most complete basketball player on planet Earth.
Breanna Stewart wore the crown for years but looked like straight dogshit in the 2023 Finals as Wilson’s Aces beat the Liberty for the title.
But it’s clear, Stewart puts on that Team USA jersey and muscle memory kicks in. She scored 31 points and grabbed 10 boards.
Breanna Stewart tonight 🇺🇸
• 31 points
• 10 rebounds— Women’s Hoops Network (@WomensHoops_USA) July 21, 2024
Although Team USA lost, Breanna and A’Ja are more than enough to beat the brakes out of the international playing field.
3. Arike Ogunbowale and Team USA are both right
A few months ago, Arike Ogunbowale went on Shannon Sharpe’s podcast and said she quit the Olympic trials because she felt like the process was not the meritocracy she believed it should’ve been, feeling as though she was outplaying a lot of women but was told her game didn’t fit the team.
This All-Star game was Arike’s opportunity to let everyone know she was good enough to be an Olympian.
ARIKE OGUNBOWALE TONIGHT
• 34 POINTS
• 6 ASSISTSMVP 🎉
— Women’s Hoops Network (@WomensHoops_USA) July 21, 2024
However, a ton of these shots were nasty decisions and if she hadn’t gotten hot, she would’ve looked nuts. Team USA could look at this performance and confirm their own bias. If they thought Arike was a ball hog with bad shot selection, this game didn’t change their minds.
But we ride for Arike here at Deadseriousness. She made me root for Notre Dame for the first and last time in my life. It’d be cool for USA to win gold or whatever but if they don’t, it’ll be because Arike was at home while Darren Waller’s muse was scoring her little 9 points.
4. Aubrey Plaza is a liar
For years, Aubrey Plaza sold herself as the unenthused, bored girl but it was alllll an act.
The GOAT lending a helping hand to Aubrey Plaza 🤝 pic.twitter.com/C0FphzNeji
— Seattle Storm (@seattlestorm) July 21, 2024
Apparently, she tore her ACL playing a game of knockout at the Phoenix Mercury practice facility. No one tears their ligaments playing a game of knockout unless they care. I see who you really are, Aubrey. You care.
5. Adam Silver is a freaky frog
Adam Silver showed up to the 2024 WNBA All-Star game with his 7-year-old daughter. Adam Silver is 62 years old and he looks like Adam Silver.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver, here with his daughter to enjoy tonight’s game ❤️#WNBAAllStar pic.twitter.com/Rn3TpoX08z
— Dime (@DimeUPROXX) July 20, 2024
What poor woman allowed this Spider-Man villain in the middle of his inevitable science-related mutation to bury a body in her? I need her on an FBI watchlist immediately.
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