The Ben Shapiro Show - August 13, 2026


The WNBA Held a Meeting About Women — and Couldn't Define One

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Ben Shapiro
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Dijonet Carrington Michelle Obama Walker Kessler Luka Doncic Sophie Cunningham Sean White Caitlin Clark Austin Reeves Josh Kushner Mark Walter Bob Iger Durham Trump
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7 minutes

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1,545

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139

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16

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00:00:00 The WNBA is still being held hostage by its indecisive and painfully woke leadership. 0.55
00:00:04 Meanwhile, Indiana Fever coach ranted at the media with Michelle Obama quotes from 2014 because this is where they all are at mentally, and then told the media to go to hell and stormed off.
00:00:15 It was not an all time great rant.
00:00:17 We'll rank a few of those rants.
00:00:19 Apparently, the WNBA held a task force to determine what to do with men who say they are women, and they could not come to any sort of conclusion.
00:00:29 I mean, not to be sexist, but maybe that's because everyone in the room was a woman.
00:00:35 But in any case, they got a bunch of women in the room and shockingly, they could not come to a conclusion about where to go to dinner. 1.00
00:00:43 Oops, I mean, like what a woman is. 1.00
00:00:46 I'm just saying this because I have a wife and I got to say that when I watch my wife do conversations with her friends about where to go to dinner, it is one of the funniest things in the entire world. 0.80
00:00:55 It is just a series of attempts not to offend anyone by making an overt suggestion.
00:01:00 Because if you suggest a restaurant somebody doesn't like, they might feel obligated to go to that restaurant, but secretly they don't actually want to go to that restaurant.
00:01:06 So can I get your suggestion first?
00:01:07 But they also don't want to do that.
00:01:08 And so you have a You have a prisoner's dilemma of not suggesting restaurants, at which point my wife will ask me what restaurant they should go to, and I will make a suggestion, which she will then reject.
00:01:19 That's pretty much how all of that goes.
00:01:20 So I assume that the same thing is happening inside the task force for the WNBA.
00:01:26 By contrast, when men decide where they want to go to dinner, one guy says, Where do you want to eat?
00:01:30 The other guy says, I'd like to go to Burger King.
00:01:32 And the guy goes, Okay, cool.
00:01:35 Or I hate that.
00:01:36 Let's go to Dairy Queen. 0.99
00:01:39 This is why every conversation between two men.
00:01:43 Last approximately 11 seconds. 0.98
00:01:46 Every conversation between two women lasts about eight hours. 0.69
00:01:49 And every conversation between a woman and a man lasts about one hour. 0.51
00:01:55 And the man gets in three sentences.
00:01:59 That's my sexist rant for the day, so long as we're on this. 1.00
00:02:02 Anyway, so the WNBA, they met, they could not determine what a woman was.
00:02:09 So they couldn't figure out the W in WNBA.
00:02:12 They put out a statement, quote, Today's meeting covered a wide range of topics, including ongoing discussions on transgender athletes and the continued hate and vitriol directed at players online.
00:02:20 We'll continue to engage all league stakeholders in the coming weeks and months.
00:02:24 We'll approach these important conversations thoughtfully and in alignment with the values of our league.
00:02:28 This means nothing.
00:02:29 It's a lot of things that don't mean anything.
00:02:31 There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA.
00:02:34 We strongly denounce the bad faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others.
00:02:39 How do they know their bad faith?
00:02:40 How are they identifying the bad faith?
00:02:41 How dare they?
00:02:43 How dare they suggest that Enos Cantor Is somehow bad faith when he says he wants to play in the WNBA.
00:02:48 How do they know that?
00:02:49 Can they get inside his head?
00:02:50 I mean, are they saying that he's not a woman?
00:02:55 Is that what they're saying right now?
00:02:56 And if so, how do they know? 1.00
00:02:59 They should stop woman splaining to the fellow woman. 1.00
00:03:03 They need to stop that right now. 1.00
00:03:05 What a disaster area the WNBA is, truly. 1.00
00:03:07 It's amazing. 1.00
00:03:08 They have a generational chance to get a crowd to watch them, and they're busy arguing over what a woman is and whether they should assault the white lady on court.
00:03:15 Incredible. 0.80
00:03:16 We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:04:20 So Indiana Fever Coach Stephanie White, she got herself in a little bit of hot water the other day because she did a presser. 0.99
00:04:27 So after Sophie Cunningham was basically mauled on the court, by a, uh, by a player whose name escapes me because I don't give a sh about the WNBA. 0.94
00:04:40 And I know her first name is Dijonet.
00:04:41 I don't know her last name.
00:04:43 What was it?
00:04:43 Carrington.
00:04:44 Okay. 0.94
00:04:45 So apparently after Dijonet Carrington, a human mugged Sophie Cunningham, another human, but Sophie Cunningham is the white lady who sometimes says that men aren't women and tries to protect Kaitlyn Clark from being physically assaulted on, on the court.
00:05:00 And the Indiana Fever coach went out and she was like, Dijonet Carrington is a great player and she's just trying to play and blah, blah.
00:05:05 So then she walked back her defense because a bunch of people were like, you know, you might want to defend the player who almost had her head ripped off.
00:05:13 For those who have anything to say about the play in the last game, I didn't see the play in real time.
00:05:18 I went straight to a press conference.
00:05:20 I thought the play got called right.
00:05:21 Thankfully, Sophie's okay.
00:05:24 Was it egregious?
00:05:25 Absolutely.
00:05:26 When you have a chance to watch that over and over and over on replay, you can see that.
00:05:32 I didn't have that in real time.
00:05:34 I mean, everyone else had that in real time, so that's weird.
00:05:36 I mean, she was literally sitting five feet away from it happening.
00:05:39 But then she got mad at the media.
00:05:41 This is not an all time great basketball media rant.
00:05:44 There are a few.
00:05:46 There's the famous Dennis Green rant.
00:05:49 And of course, there is the Ellen Iverson, we're talking about practice rant, one of the great rants of all time.
00:05:56 This one does not chart.
00:05:58 The hate, the fear mongering, the divisiveness, the stuff that's trying to hijack our league will not win.
00:06:07 She's pounding his head.
00:06:07 It won't win.
00:06:10 We are united.
00:06:11 We are connected.
00:06:14 We will not be divided. 0.96
00:06:17 Every day, these women put their on the line.
00:06:22 Every day. 1.00
00:06:23 What is a woman? 1.00
00:06:24 No one knows. 1.00
00:06:25 When they go low, we go high.
00:06:26 Love will win. 0.96
00:06:28 Grace will win.
00:06:29 Humility will win.
00:06:31 And kindness will win.
00:06:32 Just a bag of slogans.
00:06:34 I stand by them.
00:06:35 I will always stand by them. 1.00
00:06:37 Everybody else can go to hell. 0.95
00:06:40 And then storm off virtuously after citing a bunch of Michelle Obama slogans from 2014. 0.93
00:06:47 When they go low, we go high.
00:06:49 We take every day one game at a time.
00:06:52 You're basically just doing the Bull Durham routine, just repeating all of the various one liners that you're supposed to say at an interview.
00:06:58 Good job.
00:06:59 Great job, WBM.
00:07:00 You're doing great, WNBA.
00:07:02 Okay, in other NBA news, the LA Lakers have now been bought by Bob Iger and Josh Kushner.
00:07:07 The Lakers are valued at $12.5 billion.
00:07:11 So that comes 14 months after the Bus family sold a controlling stake in the Lakers to billionaire Mark Walter at a $10 billion valuation.
00:07:17 So, first of all, you turn that around real quick.
00:07:21 So, they're going to do due diligence and the NBA approval process and all the rest.
00:07:26 I hope that President Trump shows up at every LA Lakers game.
00:07:28 It'll be hilarious.
00:07:30 I will say that the Lakers are in trouble.
00:07:32 This is not a well assembled roster.
00:07:35 And they paid a lot of money for Walker Kessler.
00:07:37 I'm not sure that that was a good deal.
00:07:39 Can you build the team around Walker Kessler, Austin Reeves, and Luka Doncic?
00:07:42 I mean, Luka, yes, but I don't know.
00:07:45 They got some salary cap issues over there in LA.
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