Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - WNBA Backlash Over Sophie Cunningham, Caitlin Clark Fans & Seattle Storm Controversy

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00:00:30.000 just another episode of the riley gain show to remind you that the wmba the women's national

00:00:39.680 basketball association is so unserious my entire brand has been built on protecting women's sports

00:00:47.620 and that's not just like a slogan that i say uh for social media for clicks online like i really

00:00:53.560 mean it i want women to have the opportunity to compete and to succeed in their sport whatever

00:00:58.700 that sport may be. But the WNBA, they seem determined to sabotage itself at every single

00:01:07.100 opportunity. I've said it before. I will say it again. I have never seen a league more dedicated

00:01:12.080 to self-imploding than the WNBA. It feels like they just want to fold as an organization or a

00:01:18.980 league or a business. They continue to support the wrong side of everything. And now they're

00:01:25.740 attacking teenagers that they disagree with. It seems like every single week, it's another

00:01:31.600 controversy. And not even because the basketball that's being played on the court, it's because of

00:01:36.340 the league and the decisions that they're making administratively. I think this league is at a

00:01:41.260 crossroads. They really, really need to decide what they want to be. They can either be a

00:01:46.340 professional women's basketball league, or they can be an activist organization that occasionally

00:01:51.940 plays basketball. And it seems as if they're hellbent on fulfilling the latter. The WNBA,

00:01:57.340 as far as I see it, this is how outside looking in, I view the WNBA and their target audience,

00:02:03.200 their base. I see two groups. On one hand, you have the disgruntled lesbians, right? Picture

00:02:08.940 like the Rosie O'Donnells of the world, like that visual you have in your head. Yeah, that.

00:02:15.100 And on the other hand, you have dads who enjoy taking their daughters to basketball games.

00:02:20.340 Again, that's just talking about who actively tunes in to watch the games, who is showing up to be there in person watching a game.

00:02:27.860 It really falls into, I think, those two categories.

00:02:31.280 But the WNBA seems to forget about the dads and their young daughters and the families that want to show up because their little girls play basketball and they aspire to be just like Caitlin Clark.

00:02:41.520 The WNBA forgets about them, and that's been made all the more evident after this past week when you had a co-owner of the Seattle Storm cursing out 16-year-old girls.

00:02:53.160 Yes, you heard that right.

00:02:54.860 If you haven't watched the news or you don't really know what I'm talking about, we've got some photos on screen of two young girls.

00:03:00.100 Again, these are 16-year-old girls from the state of Washington who are there courtside for the Fever, which is Indiana Fever.

00:03:06.800 That's who Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark play for versus the Seattle Storm game.

00:03:11.520 Uh, if you're looking on screen, you can see one young girl wearing her XXXY apparel. I wish I

00:03:17.620 would have worn mine today so we could match. I could match these two heroines. Uh, but you can

00:03:22.340 see on screen, she's holding a poster that says, thank you, Sophie, for speaking up for girls.

00:03:27.440 Not a political statement, right? Uh, super cool. These are our young high school age girls. If I

00:03:33.340 had to guess, they're going into their junior year of high school next year. The girl in this photo

00:03:37.260 holding the sign that says, thank you, Sophie, for standing up for girls. Her name is Annalie

00:03:41.760 Wilson. As I said, she's 16 years old. She runs track and field. She's from the state of Washington.

00:03:47.240 So what does that combination mean? You play sports in high school in a liberal state like

00:03:53.120 Washington. It means that Annalie Wilson has dealt with this issue, the issue of men and women's

00:03:58.500 sports, or I guess in this case, boys and girls sports on a personal level. Annalie Wilson,

00:04:04.060 She first drew widespread attention after finishing second place at the 2024 Junior

00:04:10.280 Olympic Regional 1600 meter race.

00:04:13.280 And who did she finish second behind?

00:04:15.580 You're right.

00:04:16.000 That would be a boy.

00:04:17.360 We've got a photo on screen of Annalie standing there.

00:04:20.340 You can see she has a pretty defeated look on her face, taking the second place spot

00:04:25.040 on the podium as she's supposed to be the rightful champion standing atop the podium

00:04:29.960 while a boy has taken her spot.

00:04:31.840 Here's a quote from her mom.

00:04:32.840 Her mom said to Outkick, she's struggling with anxiety attacks and panic attacks where her mind has just gone blank.

00:04:38.400 Her teachers account for wandering at school one day.

00:04:40.400 She couldn't speak.

00:04:41.500 She was crying.

00:04:42.880 Anna Lee said everyone was just saying at the meet how all the girls, including me, just needed to suck it up and deal with it.

00:04:49.000 That's the way things are.

00:04:50.320 The transgender athlete was just the priority.

00:04:52.640 It didn't matter how we felt.

00:04:54.080 We just had to deal with it.

00:04:55.660 Hearing that is sad and disappointing because it felt like they were just ignoring how we felt completely and didn't want to listen to our frustrations at all.

00:05:02.040 And that's the crux of the gender ideology movement, right? It's constantly preaching of mental health. What about Annalie's mental health? Constantly preaching of inclusion. Well, what about the girl who placed ninth, who didn't get to stand on the podium? Because to me, it appears as if she was excluded, right? It's never about the girls, always about the boys.

00:05:22.680 So you can imagine when the opportunity came to go watch Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark play in her hometown, in her home state of Washington and Seattle, that would be pretty exciting, especially given recently where Sophie has come out and said, look, boys should not be in girls sports.

00:05:38.840 someone like Anna Lee, that sort of courage that Sophie showed is contagious. Maybe that

00:05:44.040 gave her the spark. It lit the fire under her to keep going. As you read in the article,

00:05:48.360 it's easy to get down on yourself. Think about it as a 16 year old girl, when you're hearing

00:05:52.420 insane, inaccurate slurs about you being called every sort of phobia, every sort of ism. And

00:05:58.500 then you've got this professional female athlete who finally, a professional athlete finally takes

00:06:04.080 a stand you want to go see that person play in real life with your own eyes you make a sign

00:06:09.280 you're so excited you've got your shirt you expect to have a good time right yeah well until celeste

00:06:15.340 keaton shows up the co-owner of seattle storm rather than explaining what happened let's just

00:06:21.520 watch a video and hear it from anna lee and her friend's account tell me what happened when this

00:06:26.740 woman approached you well we were just sitting there through signs that said like uh we love

00:06:31.720 sophie like thank you so for speaking up and so we were holding on just watching the game again

00:06:35.920 like we were being super great we hadn't said anything to anyone else we were being super

00:06:39.560 respectful we were just holding our signs and cheering for both teams and this lady older lady

00:06:43.460 comes up to us and she comes up to us and at first i think she's gonna be nice and she asked like

00:06:48.500 what are you guys doing or something like that and then it was like jesus loves everyone that's

00:06:54.460 what she told us and i was like oh i know like i'm really just like i know like i know yeah and

00:06:59.440 She's like, oh, I hope Jesus can forgive you for what sin you've done and like something like that.

00:07:04.080 And then she told us that we were effing insane.

00:07:06.180 And she's like, and she went like, yeah, yeah, like you have to stop this and stop this.

00:07:11.520 Yeah. And for you guys, I hope God can save you.

00:07:14.760 Yeah. She said for you to come here and pull this.

00:07:17.480 Yeah. She said the word. Yeah. Did she say effing insane or?

00:07:20.940 No, she said she said the word. Yeah.

00:07:22.720 She said the word. It is such a sad state of affairs when two 16 year old girls

00:07:28.880 juniors in high school let's say two 16 year old girls have to be the adults in the room

00:07:35.040 and no one no one in the stands no one sitting beside them has the gall to defend these two

00:07:42.300 girls to a fully grown powerful in her own right wealthy woman disgruntled lesbian oh it's so

00:07:50.620 frustrating it is so frustrating let's keep watching i will say annalee when i came over

00:07:54.800 you were in tears yeah i've never been yelled at like that i mean i've had people hate on me on

00:07:59.440 the internet but like it doesn't really affect me because it's just people online but that just took

00:08:04.400 me as high surprise because i thought she was gonna be nice and then she started like screaming

00:08:07.280 at us and cussing at us so yeah and so you said she walked away and we thought that was kind of

00:08:14.000 it but she mentioned something to you about like working for the team or um there was another lady

00:08:19.760 that like like told us like we were able to have our opinions um but we needed to not be political

00:08:24.720 about it and i tried to explain to her i wasn't trying to be political i was just trying to support

00:08:28.300 sophie and support the other team and you were just sitting there watching yeah we hadn't interacted

00:08:32.040 with anyone except for like saying excuse me how could you watch that video and listen to those two

00:08:38.140 girls and see how sweet their demeanor is and their disposition is and listen to what they

00:08:43.100 actually had to say right she said several times we never intended to be political we're here to

00:08:48.760 support Sophie because she supports us. You know, we were never disrespectful to anyone. How could

00:08:54.960 you listen to that and call those girls any form of a derogatory slur or word or phrase? Those girls

00:09:02.880 have more composure and maturity and wisdom and kindness in their pinky than Celeste Keaton has

00:09:10.760 ever had in her entire lifetime. First of all, who is Celeste Keaton? I've used the phrase

00:09:15.800 disgruntled lesbian. Um, that's not hyperbole. That's what Celeste Keaton is. She's in her

00:09:22.180 sixties. She's got a wife. She's morbidly obese. Again, not an exaggeration. She's,

00:09:28.840 she's overweight. Uh, she's got the typical haircut. The one, again, if you're not watching

00:09:33.780 on youtube.com, uh, the one that you're visualizing in your head, that's the exact one that Celeste

00:09:39.420 Keaton has. Apparently she's like one of those kooky card readers, tarot cards. Is that even

00:09:46.020 how you say it? Who like can manifest and look into the future and predict the outcome of your

00:09:52.340 life. I don't know. She's kooky and she's angry and she's mad and she's cursing out 16 year old

00:09:58.640 girls. How miserable and insecure, quite frankly, do you have to be to do that? I can't even fathom

00:10:05.080 doing that, like finding myself in this situation that Celeste Keaton found herself in where

00:10:10.140 I'm like eye to eye with someone I disagree with politically. I would never, no matter who it is,

00:10:15.860 it could be someone my same age. It doesn't matter. I would never curse them out like that.

00:10:21.320 I mean, I can't even imagine going to someone's social media page and leaving a hate comment,

00:10:25.680 right? Because I'm a grown adult, because I'm secure with myself. I'm secure with my belief

00:10:31.760 and the stance that I have taken that I don't need to tear someone down to lift me up or to

00:10:38.060 make me feel better or to condemn them to hell, which is what Celeste Keaton did saying, you know,

00:10:43.220 I hope God forgives you for what you've done. What is it exactly? What, what exactly have they done?

00:10:50.400 Celeste? What is it? Oh no, they believe there's two sexes. Guess what? So does the Bible. It goes

00:10:55.920 back to the very first book. He made them male and female intentionally and uniquely in his

00:11:01.540 perfect image. And how amazing is it that we have a creator who doesn't make mistakes? He just

00:11:07.460 doesn't. So what exactly did they do wrong? Celeste has got it at least a little bit right

00:11:14.440 saying, I hope God forgives you. I hope he forgives all of us, quite frankly, because we are all

00:11:19.600 sinners undeserving of his mercy and of his grace and of his goodness. But oh my gosh, to tell young

00:11:26.420 girls, you know, I can't believe you'd come here and try this. And I hope God forgives you. What a

00:11:31.200 horrible human being you are. What a horrible human being you are, Celeste. But if being

00:11:36.700 heckled by a grown woman wasn't enough, how about being heckled by a grown man? We'll play it here.

00:12:01.200 I just don't know how this grown man does not wither away and die out of shame.

00:12:16.240 Like, how are you not so embarrassed and ashamed of yourself?

00:12:20.240 How could you possibly stand there and think that you are the bigger person?

00:12:24.740 how could you be proud of yourself as a grown man for saying f you and telling security to

00:12:30.700 take the trash out and pointing it to 16 year old girls when grown adults feel emboldened to

00:12:37.920 pick on teenage girls there is something seriously wrong with society um on a lease she said that

00:12:45.320 they were sat by people who were holding signs that that indicated you know no hate in the united

00:12:50.540 States or whatever. I just want to say the people who hold up the signs that say no hate are

00:12:56.260 generally full of hate. If you disagree with them, this group that endlessly lectures people on

00:13:02.860 inclusion, nothing would make them happier than if Annalie and her friend and anyone who thinks

00:13:09.760 like them are excluded. It is amazing how the no hate, actually, I think one of the groups that

00:13:16.180 was there to rally, I guess, in favor of men and women's sports, to put it plainly. They're called

00:13:23.100 No Hate in Washington State. All they do is exude hate. I think especially when you look at a city

00:13:30.580 like Seattle, they have a very particular flavor of closed-mindedness. People often expect a place

00:13:40.180 that prides itself, again, on being inclusive and diverse and accepting and welcoming.

00:13:46.180 they would expect a place like Seattle to be open and again, to be welcoming because of its

00:13:52.100 progressive reputation. But in reality, it's not progressive at all. Actually, it feels like

00:13:58.600 there's this extremely narrow, rigid set of acceptable opinions and beliefs and thoughts

00:14:04.860 and behaviors and social norms. And you step outside of that unspoken script, even just a

00:14:09.100 little bit, and the walls go up. And oftentimes they resort to name calling at best, actually,

00:14:15.900 and violence at worst. These people, they live in this little bubble and they literally think

00:14:21.800 that anyone who doesn't agree with them is subhuman and just like unworthy of respect.

00:14:28.920 This is the definition of incompetent, misogynistic, and just absolutely and entirely

00:14:35.280 insufferable. Insufferable. They're too, I don't know if it's stupid, sorry if that sounds harsh,

00:14:41.160 or like willingly blind to recognize that they're fighting for men's rights while claiming to be

00:14:48.540 feminist. Even Annalise, she said it in that video we watched. She said, I was surprised

00:14:53.500 because talking about Celeste Keaton saying, I was surprised because she's a woman. Newsflash.

00:14:59.720 It's proven itself to be true time and time and time and time again. It's always women.

00:15:05.300 It's always women. Women will continue to be our own worst enemy. Our biggest hurdle as women

00:15:10.780 in achieving real equality, to use their own buzzwords, is women. Whether it's the three

00:15:18.280 liberal sitting Supreme Court justices who are women, who vote in opposition of women,

00:15:23.760 having equal opportunity, privacy, safety, or people like Stephanie Dolson, people like Celeste

00:15:29.280 Keaton, it's always women. Why is that? I don't know. I think we have this innate desire to be

00:15:35.860 compassionate and empathetic, emotionally driven. And I don't say those as bad things. I actually

00:15:42.360 think it's a good thing as women that we innately desire to be those things. It's what makes us

00:15:47.380 such good wives and friends and sisters and moms. But those words, compassion, empathy,

00:15:54.480 they have been just absolutely weaponized against us. What Celeste Keaton did,

00:16:02.200 Although she might not think this way, she might think it was the compassionate, virtuous thing to do.

00:16:07.360 It wasn't compassionate. That's not kind how she acted.

00:16:11.380 Advocating for men in your daughter's locker rooms, that doesn't display empathy.

00:16:16.700 Having no problem with kids as young as nine years old cutting off healthy, functioning body parts.

00:16:21.920 Again, those aren't good things.

00:16:24.180 We've been, I guess, conditioned as a society to believe that they are, they're not.

00:16:29.700 So just be honest with yourself.

00:16:31.420 Words have real meaning.

00:16:32.920 It matters.

00:16:34.020 True connotation.

00:16:35.300 I strive as someone to be compassionate and empathetic.

00:16:39.080 I'm often demonized by the media or whoever, your favorite left-wing pundit, to be this

00:16:44.640 horrible phobic-ism person, whatever.

00:16:48.160 I'm not.

00:16:48.860 I would consider myself a compassionate, kind person.

00:16:52.940 And Sophie actually said it in that piece written by ESPN last week and saying, look,

00:16:56.960 I speak the truth in love.

00:16:58.500 I think the most loving, compassionate thing you can do is to tell the truth.

00:17:02.360 And I think someone should tell Stephanie Dolson that.

00:17:06.940 And I guess my last comment, I want to direct to her and to this co-owner of the Seattle Storm and to anyone in the WNBA who wants to listen.

00:17:17.220 If you really support men and women's sports, let men play.

00:17:22.640 I mean, let LeBron James on the court with your girl.

00:17:27.040 Stephanie, if you have no problem with men on the court, with you all as women, then allow each team that you play against for the rest of the season to have just one man on their team for the rest of the season.

00:17:38.620 See how that would go. Maybe they would change their mind. I can tell you what the outcome would be.

00:17:43.380 Anyone with like a fifth grade understanding of biology would tell you what the outcome would be.

00:17:48.500 If even you let one boy, one man who maybe didn't quite, let's take a college player, college basketball player, men's college basketball player who didn't quite make the league, let him play on the rest of the teams that you play for the rest of the season.

00:18:06.440 And let's see what happens.

00:18:09.640 I'm so curious.

00:18:10.940 I'm dying to know what would happen.

00:18:13.140 No, we all know it's rhetorical.

00:18:15.020 Of course, the team with the boy would win.

00:18:17.620 And again, just to hit the point, it's not to say that women are inferior or less than, we just have different physical ceilings. We have different capabilities. There's nothing wrong with that. It's why women's sports were created to showcase that, to highlight that, to celebrate it, to honor it, and to protect it.

00:18:33.620 And when we allow men into those spaces, there's no point for women's sports at all.

00:18:41.180 So what happened on the back end of this following this interaction that we saw from Celeste Keaton?

00:18:47.200 Namely, the WNBA offered a pretty weak apology.

00:18:50.940 I'll read it to you.

00:18:52.440 It says, we are aware one of our co-owners made comments to two fans in attendance at last night's game.

00:18:57.160 We apologize that this happened.

00:18:58.840 Everyone who attends a Storm game deserves to feel welcome, and we remain committed to creating an inclusive, there it is, an inclusive environment where every fan is treated with respect.

00:19:09.120 Yeah, so that was like a, we love everyone, but terms and conditions may apply.

00:19:16.760 It feels like there's a clause in there, but nonetheless, WNBA did ultimately decide to suspend Celeste Keaton from the next five home games and has been fired.

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00:19:57.720 find. What's Sophie's response in all of this? Because again, she's indirectly implicated in all

00:20:03.240 of it because it goes back to her. At least the left is claiming that it does because those little

00:20:07.660 girls who showed up in their bigoted ways, they were there to support Sophie. So what has Sophie

00:20:12.620 said? Well, unsurprisingly, she's quadrupled down because she's so cool. And because the hate,

00:20:19.440 it just can't really break her. And she torched the Seattle Storm co-owner. This was her tweet

00:20:24.740 she put out. She said, I truly believe there is a safe space and love for everybody. In all caps,

00:20:30.680 biological girls, biological boys, trans women, and trans men. Everyone is welcome at my table.

00:20:36.180 You can disagree and still be kind. Bravo to those young girls for standing up for what they believe.

00:20:41.260 You'll be hearing from me soon. Yay for gifts. Truly embarrassing of the co-owner. Unfortunately,

00:20:46.620 shows the type of leader that she is. I love that. The only thing I have to say here is,

00:20:52.120 Sophie you don't have to say biological girls and biological boys or trans women or trans men for that matter

00:20:58.920 It's just men and women. That's the only two boys girls male female

00:21:03.120 Those are the only two options man and woman

00:21:06.260 Everyone is welcome at my table. I'm right there with Sophie

00:21:09.680 You can disagree and still be kind and that's how I saw

00:21:13.500 Anna Lee and her friend who were sitting courtside. They were still kind. They were the ones who were civil

00:21:19.280 It was the other side who isn't

00:21:21.480 about the internet. Of course, they never miss an opportunity to try to cancel Sophie. Again,

00:21:28.100 it's just not really working. You can't really be canceled if you don't allow them to cancel you.

00:21:33.840 This person online said, Sophie Cunningham is Riley Gaines 2.0. Mind you, this has

00:21:38.000 nearly 4 million views at this point. Sophie Cunningham is Riley Gaines 2.0,

00:21:42.800 10 times more bigoted and transphobic, which I take offense to, by the way. Nobody is more

00:21:49.320 transphobic than me. Because when they say transphobic, it just really means attached to

00:21:54.020 reality. Again, interchangeable. 10 times more bigoted and transphobic despite looking like an

00:21:59.340 actual trans herself. Isn't it so funny when they do this, right? We've been berated as a society

00:22:06.340 for years if we don't say that this six foot four balding man who puts on a dress, if we don't call

00:22:13.960 him a woman, if we don't say that he's a beautiful woman at that. And now the best insult that they

00:22:19.000 can come up with is that, oh, well, you look trans. That's like the most hurtful thing that

00:22:23.560 they can conjure up in their mind. It's hilarious, isn't it? It proves that they don't actually think

00:22:29.600 that trans is like beautiful or stunning or any of the, again, things that they've, we've all been

00:22:35.260 conditioned to say and to think and to, to many of us believe over the past few years, the best

00:22:40.680 insult that they can think is that you look trans. And I think it's hilarious. Um, JK Rowling,

00:22:48.140 who has been just so, so great across the board.

00:22:52.600 Obviously, she's a literary genius in her writing.

00:22:55.840 She never misses the mark on X either.

00:22:58.580 She quote tweeted the photo of Annalie holding up the sign

00:23:01.280 and she said, these young women are heroines.

00:23:03.320 They're peacefully protesting against the grotesque unfairness

00:23:06.560 of men playing in women's sports.

00:23:08.040 The only people who are effing insane here

00:23:10.360 are those making a mockery of fair sport for women

00:23:12.580 and trying to bully girls like this into silence.

00:23:16.120 Yes, JK, she's so good.

00:23:18.140 I guess I can kind of tease something. Keep your TV screens on this weekend. Maybe click on an

00:23:24.360 Indiana Fever game that's happening in Minneapolis on Sunday around one o'clock. I figure I might

00:23:33.660 need to make an appearance at a WNBA game. I've never been to one before, and I want to go. Those

00:23:38.780 young girls, those two girls, they inspired me. The saying of courage is contagious. Yes, it's

00:23:45.000 cliche, but it's true. And those young girls, their courage has inspired me. So I might have

00:23:51.540 to just sit courtside with my girl, Caitlin and Sophie. Stay tuned. The WNBA posted a video of

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00:25:15.280 concerned about your gambling or that someone close to you call 1-866-531-2600 or visit

00:25:17.800 connexontario.ca betting this is illegal uh the league deleted it really quickly after they

00:25:24.300 realized that this violates league rules so the league is so dumb moronic idiotic stupid

00:25:31.680 for posting this, but the players, what are y'all doing? You had to, you had to, everyone knows

00:25:39.460 that it's legal for fixed betting. And that's what this is. How stupid are you to be on video

00:25:47.380 placing these bets with cash being shown? And then for Angel Reese to afterwards say,

00:25:53.760 I'll accept my Apple pay and the presser when she's asked about this. Players in the NFL,

00:25:59.500 in the MLB and the NBA have missed entire seasons, if not been banned from their sport

00:26:04.740 for life for doing this. But there's been virtually nothing, nothing, radio silence

00:26:10.980 from liberal media, liberal sports media specifically. Imagine, first, if you don't

00:26:18.820 watch basketball, if you don't know who these players are, Angel Reese, who if you're watching

00:26:22.740 at youtube.com, you saw she's a black woman. She played at LSU. Ghetto, quite frankly,

00:26:29.500 she's not ghetto because she's black. She's ghetto because she's ghetto and how she talks

00:26:32.500 and how she dresses. Uh, there are some things actually that I like about Angel Reese. Um,

00:26:36.680 I think she paid off her mom's house, which that's super cool and admirable. Um, so I'm

00:26:41.580 not on like an Angel Reese hate train. I'm really not, but, um, she is ghetto, I think

00:26:46.480 is a, an accurate word to describe her and not because of the color of her skin. I can

00:26:50.740 already picture it. This getting clipped Riley Gaines calls black girl ghetto. She's not ghetto

00:26:55.000 because she's black. She's ghetto because she's ghetto. Okay. And then you have Paige Buechers,

00:26:59.300 who I think is lesbian or queer or a part of that community. Imagine if this story involved

00:27:07.460 Caitlin Clark. I feel bad for Caitlin Clark because so much kind of gets flipped back on her.

00:27:13.240 Actually, what I'm doing right now, I feel bad because Caitlin didn't necessarily,

00:27:17.260 I mean, she didn't, she never explicitly asked for this, but I do think it's worth making,

00:27:21.000 you know, highlighting the dichotomy that exists. If this story involved Caitlin Clark,

00:27:26.400 or better yet, Sophie Cunningham, it would be nonstop ESPN coverage. It would be national

00:27:32.700 outrage. It would be wall-to-wall debate. It would be demands for punishment and suspension and fines,

00:27:38.460 but we're not seeing that. It's radio silence. I will say, regardless of who is involved,

00:27:45.720 I hope we see a full investigation on this. I think the findings should be made public. I think discipline should be had if it's warranted. And I think there should be no special treatment because it's two of the left wing crazy WNBA's stars who are who are involved in the contention.

00:28:07.160 We need consistent enforcement of league rules.

00:28:11.440 We've called for that with Caitlin Clark and the violence that she has faced, that she has been a direct target of, and we're calling for it here.

00:28:19.640 And if league leadership fails to protect competitive integrity, we need to see leadership change, quite frankly, including the WNBA commissioner.

00:28:30.960 And I think even more broader, the NBA commissioner, discipline there should be on the table.

00:28:37.300 It really should, because, again, at the end of the day, the NBA pours $20 million into that dumpster fire of a league every single year.

00:28:47.180 If the NBA pulls their support, then maybe they will change.

00:28:52.040 But the WNBA, I mean, they're comfortable.

00:28:55.340 They have no reason to change.

00:28:58.600 But I guess last thing here, I really, I'll finish just how I started it.

00:29:03.900 I want women to succeed in sports, or at least to have the opportunity to succeed in sports.

00:29:11.660 The WNBA, they're like hanging on to this choice by a thread, but they have a choice.

00:29:16.920 It can become the premier women's basketball league in the world.

00:29:21.600 I think it would take leaning into Caitlin Clark, protecting her.

00:29:24.400 I mean, at bare minimum, leaning into the Sophie Cunninghams of the world, or, which this is more likely, unfortunately, the WNBA can continue to alienate fans until people stop paying attention altogether.

00:29:40.780 I really, really hope it chooses wisely because women's sports and female athletes deserve a whole lot better than what the WNBA is giving them.

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Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - July 31, 2026

WNBA Backlash Over Sophie Cunningham, Caitlin Clark Fans & Seattle Storm Controversy

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