r/sportsgossips • u/ConnectionWeekly1263 • Aug 01 '26
Video Sophie Cunningham getting HEAVILY BOOED in Portland... She knocks down a 3 and calls the crowd losers
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u/2025TastyTreats Aug 01 '26
She is actually using a hand signal to signify the "3" her thumb, index and middle finger not making an "L" to signify "Loser".
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u/ilford_7x7 Aug 01 '26
And the crowd wasn't booing....they were saying boooo-urrns
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u/Stuffleapugus Aug 01 '26
Booooooobs
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u/Stupid_Flexy_Sanders Aug 01 '26
Little BOOOoooooOOooOoOooObs
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u/FiringNerveEndings Aug 01 '26
Yeah the headline is such a blatant click bait. I went back and am watching the game and she is paying no attention to the crowd, does her usual 3 gesture and gets on with the business.
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u/franki-pinks Aug 01 '26
Going to watch Forest every week I find it weird when other sports fans get so pressed about booing. Just seems natural to me that you would boo and try to put off an opponent.
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u/AlternativeRanger572 Aug 01 '26
Home fans should boo the opponent, everyone is so soft.
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u/imperialivan Aug 01 '26
It’s clear these people never watch hockey. It’s an honour to be the player that gets bood the worst on the road
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u/nybadfish Aug 01 '26
“Your boos mean nothing to me, I’ve seen what makes you cheer”
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u/AlternativeRanger572 Aug 01 '26
💯 WHL hockey fights even used to be better. Fans & coaches would even fought. No respect for opponents. That's why when ex-Storm come to town, Seattle fans need to give them the flowers, then boo the crap out of them.
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u/Rare4orm Aug 01 '26
Hockey and its fan base are in another world of sports. Not a hockey fan in general, but attending my first minor league hockey game ended up being super enjoyable. Probably because every other sport that I watch has referees and league officials disrupting gameplay and outcomes by insisting that the players all act the same.
In that first hockey game I mentioned there was a fight on the glass right in front of us. As they broke it up one of the visiting players was skating away when he apparently saw this young kid(maybe 10) in a visiting jersey approach the glass. He turned around and fist bumped the kid through the glass and then flashed a huge bloody smile. Was a great moment and I had never seen anything like that.
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u/Filmyboicrispy Aug 04 '26
Grew up playing hockey and still do. In Junior I had a lot of fights and after we would both get kicked out we would laugh about it and be buds in the stands most of the time. One time I knocked a guys tooth out and we met in the stands after and laughed about it and went next door where I bought him a beer. Hockey players leave any beef on the ice most of the time.
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u/717packleader Aug 01 '26
Flyers fan here. The "Crosby Sucks" chants are epic. If he wasn't a dagger in our hearts year after year, no one would care enough.
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u/imperialivan Aug 01 '26
I’m a jets fan, Makar can score on us at will, so he gets booed here every time he touches the puck.
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u/717packleader Aug 01 '26
And I bet he gets the shit booed out of him during warmups and announcements. And its FUN
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u/imperialivan Aug 01 '26
Yep it’s all part of the show and it always has been. Can’t stand the manufactured drama and outrage with the WNBA.
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u/Zerocool_6687 Aug 01 '26
Not to mention his response to that chant has often been… not great for Philly lol
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u/717packleader Aug 01 '26
Rarely if ever have I chanted Crosby Sucks and not had him do Crosby stuff to us.
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u/Djolumn Aug 01 '26
Rangers fans still chant "Potvin sucks". He hasn't played a game in almost 30 years.
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u/Exceptional_Kumquat Aug 02 '26
And Crosby just feeds on that energy. He's had that crap since he was a teenager. Still he somehow manages to be a Canadian Mr Rogers.
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u/Rhomya Aug 02 '26
I’m pretty sure it’s Brad Marchands entire life goal to be booed in every NHL rink
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u/imperialivan Aug 02 '26
He’s the guy you hate but deep down you know: if he was on your team you’d adore him
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u/Zealousideal-Baby586 Aug 02 '26
for whatever reason you'r comment reminded me of something Chris Paul said. When he was with the Suns and asked how he felt when his teammates told him he should shoot more and he responded "Could be worse, they could tell me not to shoot."
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u/awisechoicee Aug 01 '26
Yeah you boo the opposing teams player. When Eagles fans boo Dak Prescott is it because hes anti suicide? Or the star on his head?
Lol redditors need to go outside.
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u/thecheapseatz Aug 01 '26
Every sporting sub is going like that, making booing racist when it's about the jersey
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u/htownballa1 Aug 01 '26
Except this chick wasn’t getting booed until she opened her mouth.
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u/hiricinee Aug 01 '26
Yes! The heated contested rivalries were great. I'm all about sportsmanship but its much more fun when you hate each other during the game just dont get violent.
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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 Aug 01 '26
It makes more sense when you see the /r/__gossips subreddits as a psyop by foreign agents to sow dissension
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u/scriptingends Aug 01 '26
League needs a villain - great for publicity
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u/Pretend-Vehicle-5183 Aug 01 '26
And she's cute
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u/Windman772 Aug 01 '26
Women are often cutest when they're female
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u/jld2k6 Aug 01 '26
There's nothing more erotic than the clear absence of a penis
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u/decadentj Aug 01 '26
I contend having a vagina is more erotic than the penile void
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u/ggrindelwald Aug 01 '26
You know me. I see pair of thick, weighty breasts and all logic flies out the window.
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u/VirStellarum Aug 01 '26
Depending on how you interpret this comment, you may get booed in Portland next time around
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u/funny_redditusername Aug 01 '26
Shit, you get booed in Portland just for being a white male.
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u/Unhappy_Waltz5834 Aug 01 '26
Bullshit. How’s that even possible in a city that is 65.8% white?
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u/upanddownallaround Aug 01 '26
Only someone not from Portland would say something that stupid. They picture PDX as “woke” and perpetuate that reputation with comments like that. Booing white males lol. That’s funny and of course it’s got upvotes.
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u/Kelspear Aug 01 '26
They tried to make it CC and she wouldn't play along. So they moved on to Sophie.
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u/FINE-ILLGETAUSERNAME Aug 01 '26
*hero
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u/PanthersChamps Aug 01 '26
I’ve been watching Angel Reese highlights and it’s refreshing to see someone make a shot.
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u/Rivendel93 Aug 01 '26
It's genuinely shocking Angel Reese made it to adulthood, she has the dexterity of a three legged giraffe.
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u/bnnyhanna Aug 01 '26
Why and how is she a villain.. people can have their own opinion ..
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u/Zestyclose-Draft-724 Aug 01 '26
She's a villain to people who didn't pay attention in biology class.
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u/Embarrassed_Towel707 Aug 01 '26
Dunning Kruger effect at its best. The irony of telling someone they're wrong about biology, while yourself being wrong.
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u/johnnyhammers2025 Aug 01 '26
Are you saying male and female athletes don’t have measurable differences or that males who identify as transgender lose these advantages?
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u/Feathered_Serpent8 Aug 01 '26
Love it. As long as there is no violence or slurs, fans can boo whoever whenever. It’s sport and entertainment.
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u/BlueSoccerSB8706 Aug 01 '26
I love Sophie for the wnba, she brings in different fans. And I'm cool if opposing fans boo, totally fine to boo anyone on the other team.
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u/DoYouLikeWafflezz Aug 01 '26
She recently made a statement about how she thinks transgender women shouldn’t be allowed to play in women’s sports. She also recently made an appearance at at a UFC event.
Both of those are pretty right wing things, and Portland is a very non right wing city.
Also, she’s in an opposing teams city.
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u/FancyConfection1599 Aug 01 '26
I really think most people have this opinion, and most of the people who have this opinion staunchly defend transgender rights.
This is such a non-issue for people to get so worked up over, I have mostly liberal views and typically vote left but getting all bent out of shape over bs like this is exactly why so many Americans don’t identify with the left.
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u/sevinup07 Aug 01 '26
I'm extremely liberal and agree it's a non-issue. It's not the left that's made it a talking point.
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u/m3ngnificient Aug 01 '26
This. Who the fuck from the left has made this their main ground while running for office?
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u/MakinBaconOnTheBeach Aug 01 '26
Seth Moulton said he didn't want his girls playing sports against boys and now the Massachusetts subreddit hates him
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u/Certain-End-1519 Aug 01 '26
Its a hill that plenty of people on the left are willing to die on. Thats why the issue won't go away.
The right constantly dare the left to die on this hill and they keep doing it.
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u/Rassendyll207 Aug 01 '26
No, it isn't.
Let athletic governing organizations determine appropriate eligibility requirements for their specific level of competition. It's really that easy.
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u/robokomodos Aug 01 '26
Are we really going to pretend that the right is spending hundreds of millions because they legitimately care about protecting women's sports? Of course not.
Hundreds of thousands of trans people are affected by employment and housing discrimination, bans on military service, an inability to get a passport, being unable to even use a public bathroom in many states, and more. But the trans issue that deserves the most public discussion and attention is maybe a dozen trans women in the NCAA? Fuck off. The right is just using the sports issue as an excuse to delegitimize trans people so they can do everything else.
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u/urbanlife78 Aug 01 '26
This is the correct answer, this is nothing more than a facade to strip away rights from trans people
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u/Ancient-Bug5895 Aug 01 '26
also gets people on the right politically engaged and more likely to vote, arguably the main reason for the whole boondoggle
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u/FancyConfection1599 Aug 01 '26
This kind of projection is eerily similar to the right saying the left only wants to “take their guns” so the government can control them.
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u/Former_Ganache3642 Aug 01 '26
The issue for me is she claims she wants to protect women and girls and yet she went to the UFC and did the ring walk etc in support of Dana White - a man who publicly slapped his wife across the face - and Conor McGregor - a literal rapist. If she cared about women and girls, she wouldn't go near these creeps.
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u/Reverend_Tommy Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
She doesn't care. This chick is more interested in being an Instagram model than playing ball and I wouldn't be surprised at all if she ended up as a commentator on Fox News.
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u/Miserable_Spell_2964 Aug 01 '26
I'd say she's been trying out to become the next Right wing grifter, her family are a bunch of right wingers too
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u/mastahkun Aug 01 '26
All for max 1% of the world population. It really makes no sense how much energy is given to the topic.
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u/Labyrinthy Aug 01 '26
It makes perfect sense wtf are you talking about?
We’re talking about this bullshit that most of us agree on instead of legitimate shit like how the world is ran by pedophiles and there are multiple genocides happening.
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u/ron_marinara Aug 01 '26
UFC has a long history and identity before trump. She could be a genuine fan
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u/StrengthGood3208 Aug 01 '26
Because she's the away team and scored a point. But that dosent get clicks.
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u/FoulfrogBsc Aug 01 '26
Because the culture war is stupid as fuck and a distraction from the class war.
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u/Dazzling2468 Aug 01 '26
It's purposely tailored that way. Get people to hate each other, and they'll never rise up against us.
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u/Voluptulouis Aug 01 '26
MAGA is too fucking stupid to not be distracted by trivial bullshit and realize the problem is billionaires, not trans people.
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u/tagillaslover Aug 01 '26
Because certain communities that are really prevalent in the Portland area are determined to die on stupid hills
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u/TaleNearby Aug 01 '26
probably because of her recent comments on trans people if i remember? something about them in sports
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u/Large-Hamster-199 Aug 01 '26
Actually her comment was that girls need to be safe in their locker rooms. She implied that trans people were rapists. Quite ironic coming from MAGA
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u/DirkDigler925 Aug 01 '26
You implied that. She said she doesn’t want females in locker rooms with biological males.
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u/Fun_Afraid Aug 01 '26
Trump was in the miss teen American locker rooms. Is that like a problem? /s
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u/Large-Hamster-199 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
Her exact quote when discussing trans athletes was "protect young girls in the locker room". So she believes trans girls are a threat to girls in a locker room. The implication is obvious.
Again, this is really something coming from MAGA supporters like her given that the president is mentioned tens of thousands of times in the Epstein files and was convinced of sexual abuse in civil court, lost his appeals and openly boasted about walking into the changing room of the teenage beauty pageant he owned. I'll venture a wild guess and bet that Donald Trump is far greater to children than any trans athletes.
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u/Voluptulouis Aug 01 '26
Trans people are not sexual predators, unlike Donald Trump and MAGA, who she supports.
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u/Mundane-External3462 Aug 01 '26
Because she's playing an away game, all the virtue signalling against this woman needs to end
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u/PeasantParticulars Aug 01 '26
Show boating and at an opponents stadium
Boston used to throw slurs at players, portland has gotta step it up if they wanna compete.
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u/Humble_Room_2314 Aug 01 '26
Because she said she wants to play only against women. Somehow that gets you booed today
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u/petitchat2 Aug 01 '26
Isnt her sentiment shared w more than 70% of the population? I thought she might be booed for something else
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u/Gamer-Of-Le-Tabletop Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
About 3 in 4 Gen Z men (72%) say transgender women should not be allowed to play female sports, compared with about half of young women (56%).
Seems like men have more an issue than women... About a women's sport... Wild...
Tho I guess it's still above 50%.
And incase anyone is wondering about the poll:
This NBC News Stay Tuned poll was powered by SurveyMonkey, the fast, intuitive feedback management platform where 20 million questions are answered daily. It was conducted online April 11-20 among a national sample of 19,682 adults ages 18 and over. Reported percentages exclude item nonresponse and round to the nearest percentage point. The estimated margin of error for this survey among all adults is plus or minus 2.2 percentage points.
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u/EnvironmentalCry2623 Aug 01 '26
That 30% disproportionately gravitates to cities like Portland and to Reddit
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u/fstopmm Aug 01 '26
I was at this game. I booed her. I did so because she is a powerful player on the opposing team and I wanted the Fever fans in the crowd to know whose house they were in. It is not complicated.
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u/2mice Aug 01 '26
Its not complicated at all. Portland is a leftist cesspool. Women and lgb got all the rights they asked for and more, leftists stayed in "fight mode", but what could they fight for? Well, how about any man that wants access to women's private areas, they just have to call themeselves a woman, and they get free access, no questions asked. Basically, the womens right movement became about fighting for creepy perverts (note. Im not talking about actual trans people, they are not creepy, but they have gotten bundled in with creepy perverts because of leftists fighting for anyone who says their trans, again, no questions asked)
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u/Global_Character7875 Aug 02 '26
Its portland I wouldnt take these people very seriously
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u/sh0gun2006 Aug 01 '26
The thing that confuses me about her "celebrity" is what happened to "Why don't they just shut up and play ball?"
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u/oatmeal28 Aug 02 '26
Also, she's a bench player lmao
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u/Masticates_In_Public Aug 03 '26
This is exactly what they did with Riley Gaines, too. They made it seem like Gaines had a victory stolen by a Trans woman, but they tied for fifth place in a field of 8.
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u/Smooth_Rocket_ Aug 01 '26
I think there is 1 comment about there being basically no boos in this "HEAVILY BOOED" clip. It really is just bots here now... fuck.
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u/Evolved333 Aug 01 '26
Tell us you’ve never watched Sophie without telling us you never watched Sophie. She does the same gesture with 3 fingers on her head every time after making a 3. They actually had a rally for Sophie before the game and liberals lost their mind. You know, the party that’s loving and accepting….until they disagree with you
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u/Proper_Initiative123 Aug 01 '26
Imaging only showing up for your first sports game every, paying money, and going to trash someone with opinions about competition in their own sport (that you have probably never played).
I'm about as left as they come, but sports being fair is different than equality amongst the masses...
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u/SorryRazzmatazz3933 Aug 01 '26
Visiting player makes a basket and the home crowd boos. Then the visitor player mocks the crowd. OMG! That never happens.
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u/External-Dude779 Aug 01 '26
So basically... Hometown sports fans.....Boo opponent.... And... MAGA think it's a win? Lol OK
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u/Key-Pea6412 Aug 01 '26
For what? Watch every time she hits a three she does that, She is putting up 3 fingers ill be honest I am old and don't get the reference but a lot of the players do this same thing when they get a three now
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u/WhereBaptizedDrowned Aug 01 '26
Can incite a mob scene. Rules have a reason behind em
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u/Frankfitter252 Aug 01 '26
You need a crowd first
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u/allshewroten Aug 01 '26
Did you watch the clip? Are there any empty seats?
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u/WolfGangSwizle Aug 01 '26
Looked it up, over 19,000 in attendance. That’s a solid crowd
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u/Chichanged_me Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
John Wall threw up blood gang signs after a basket and didn’t get shit… have you watched the modern NBA?
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u/Georange Aug 01 '26
If we are living of fear of throwing up the "L 7 Weiner" we have become too soft. No chance in hell this incites a riot.
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u/mattnisseverdrink Aug 01 '26
What the heck these sports fans are booing the player scoring against their team?! Outrage!!
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u/Interesting-Lake-430 Aug 01 '26
Trans can be who they want but to expect them to be in the locker room with other women is wrong.
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u/totaldva77 Aug 01 '26
Trans people** and trans women have almost no record of assaulting women in bathrooms. Check your biases please
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u/haikupoetics2 Aug 01 '26
That shot looks like if you watch them shoot in 1947. Otherwise, yeah, like, opponents get booed. WNBA has just become a cesspool of culture war bullshit.
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u/StyrofoamUnderwear Aug 01 '26
People are stupid. I hate Republicans and think they are all idiots... I have voted for Democrats my whole life.
With that being said, in my opinion, Trans athletes that were born male should be banned from competing in womens sports.
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u/NEWDEALUSEDCARS Aug 01 '26
I’m glad she received the gender affirming care she needed, the literal slippery slope to Mar-a-Lago face.
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u/s470dxqm Aug 01 '26
Too much attention on someone who has only started 3 games this season.
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u/Plane_Singer_6381 Aug 05 '26
Shes getting the Riley Gaines treatment. Say transphobic shit, get on fox news, get the attention of the cult and profit off the gen0cide the government is doing to trans people.
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u/Nawwwm Aug 01 '26
Did you post the wrong video? I didn't hear any Boeing at all, also why were they Brewer she made the shot? Are they just hating, I don't really follow women's basketball
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u/Financial_Style_4498 Aug 01 '26
Getting booed simply because she wants sports for females to remain sports for females. What's wrong with people?
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u/imJGott Aug 02 '26
I wouldn’t expect the opposing team to be heavily cheered for making points against the home team.
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u/Some_guy_am_i Aug 02 '26
So… they “protest” her by buying tickets to the WNBA??
WNBA calling her people right now seeing if she wouldn’t mind going full anti trans instead of just anti-MAAB-in-women’s-sports
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u/xxxWARxMACHINE Aug 04 '26
Outing herself as a Trump Nazi wasn’t a good career move.
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u/tametimes Aug 01 '26
Ended with 13 points and 0 rebounds. Maybe she should worry less about trans people and learning how to play.
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u/Otherwise-Daikon-389 Aug 01 '26
God, I'm so tired of hearing about her
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u/Cokeycane Aug 01 '26
I think she's great for the WNBA and women in general. She's not afraid to express her opinioins. It's just sad that some people can't respect an opposing opinion, even though they demand respect when it benefits them.
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u/Rutiaga17 Aug 01 '26
Because trans in sports is a major problem in this country 🙄...people just need to be mad at something
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u/Repulsive_Tea9974 Aug 01 '26
She and Caitlin Clark are the most interesting thing to happen in women’s basketball and certain groups are butthurt.
Shock. What else is new?
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