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There are a few highlights you can take away from the 2022 WNBA All-Star Weekend. The biggest of which is 15-year vet, Sylvia Fowles, dunking on a fastbreak in the middle of the All-Star game.
🔨 SYLVIA FOWLES 🔨
The steal and the SLAM in her final #WNBAAllStar Game! pic.twitter.com/U5xfickXsN
— WNBA (@WNBA) July 10, 2022
Impressive as hell coming from a 36-year-old. There are 36-year old players in the NBA who can’t dunk without weeks of preparation and Fowles did it in the middle of an All-Star game out of nowhere.
In February, Fowles announced she will be playing in her final WNBA season. A stacked resume including 8 All-Star appearances, 7-time first-team All-Defense and a regular-season MVP in 2017 with two Finals MVPs. One of the greatest to ever do it. Sue Bird is also in her final season but who cares?
But speaking of MVP awards, it’s impossible to not talk about the weird-ass All-Star game MVP trophy given to Kelsey Plum after the game.
Kelsey Plum is your #WNBAAllStar Game MVP 🏆 pic.twitter.com/WaFHv17gjz
— espnW (@espnW) July 10, 2022
Kelsey Plum scored 30 points in 23 minutes. The first All-Star game of her career and she put on a shooting clinic. All the credit in the world to new Aces head coach, Becky Hammon, for unlocking a new level of Plum’s game and just completely transforming her into an ‘unguardable’ machine.
And Plum’s reward for her dominance is a trophy some WNBA exec found at the Dollar Tree down the road. That MVP trophy looks even more absurd when WNBA commissioner, Cathy Engelbert, is handing it to Plum and they’re holding it together making the trophy look like it weighs 3 ounces.
This is the same league that flies their players across the country in coach with families of 5 traveling to Disney Land.
Women’s basketball is growing. The girls coming out of college are so much more talented than they were a decade ago but why would they choose to make a teacher’s salary and get mocked on Twitter because the WNBA won’t pay them more and gives them MVP trophies from Family Dollar in the same aisle as the bubbles poor kids blow around their inflatable pool their parents fill up on the front lawn or what used to be a lawn and is now just the hardest soil ever.
The good news is that the league announced they will be expanding the season to 40 games which means more ticket sales and TV revenue. More money in the pot means more money goes to players so hopefully, this means these women can make better money that stops them from needing to play overseas where nothing but chaos happens. Whether it’s Breana Stewart blowing her achilles or Britney Griner getting locked up in Russia for smoking mid. Hell, maybe those additional games will help pay for an All-Star MVP trophy that isn’t made of chocolate.
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