THE WNBA RUNS PRO BASKETBALL. THE NBA IS DEAD. WOMEN RUN EVERYTHING BUT FOOTBALL AND BASEBALL. ESPN

Summary

Highlights

• Women's basketball thrives under the rim, focusing on skill over physicality. 🙌
• Inadequate media coverage historically overshadowed the WNBA, but times are changing. 📈
• The NBA's product is criticized for being predictable and lacking artistry. 🎭
• The WNBA benefits from passionate and emotionally driven gameplay. 💪
• Rising stars in the WNBA are challenging traditional gender narratives in sports. 🌠

Key Takeaways

• The WNBA offers a purer form of basketball with more fundamentals and passion than the NBA. 🏀
• Women's basketball has been traditionally undervalued due to limited media coverage but shines through with increased visibility. 📺
• The NBA struggles with predictability and stagnation, driven by over-reliance on analytics and complacency. 📉
• Female athletes bring intensity and emotion to the game, making every match feel significant and engaging. 🔥
• Caitlyn Clark and others have helped elevate the WNBA's status, breaking stereotypes and showcasing the talent pool. 🌟

Overview

Chapters

• 00:00 - 03:00: Introduction This chapter serves as an introduction to the main topic of the book. It sets the stage for the in-depth exploration that follows by providing essential context, background information, and an overview of the key themes and objectives. The introduction aims to engage the reader's interest and prepare them for the details and complexities to be examined in subsequent chapters.
• 03:00 - 10:00: Comparing WNBA and NBA The chapter provides a comparative analysis between the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA). It discusses various aspects such as the evolution of both leagues, differences and similarities in gameplay, player dynamics, and public perception. Economical aspects including player salaries, revenue generation, and market penetration are addressed. It also covers media coverage and fan engagement across both leagues, highlighting historical milestones in each. Furthermore, the transcript dives into the challenges each league faces, such as gender biases in sports, marketing strategies, and the drive for inclusivity and equal opportunity.
• 10:00 - 18:00: Critique of the NBA The chapter titled 'Critique of the NBA' aims to provide a critical analysis of the National Basketball Association (NBA). It seeks to evaluate various aspects of the league, possibly including its organizational structure, policies, and practices. The critique may cover topics such as the NBA's influence on sports culture, its handling of societal issues, the economics of the league, and player management. The chapter may also delve into specific criticisms that have been levied against the NBA, including those related to labor relations, media portrayal, and commercialization. Overall, this chapter attempts to offer a comprehensive review of the NBA, recognizing both its contributions to and challenges within the world of sports.
• 18:00 - 30:00: Historical and Current Issues in the NBA This chapter discusses various historical and contemporary issues in the National Basketball Association (NBA). It aims to provide insights into how the league has evolved over time and the challenges it currently faces.
• 30:00 - 45:00: WNBA's Growth and Potential The chapter titled 'WNBA's Growth and Potential' is focused on discussing the evolution and future trajectory of the Women's National Basketball Association. Although the provided transcript is incomplete, it seems to suggest that the speaker has been pondering or advocating for certain changes or developments within the WNBA over several years. The statement hints at a culmination of efforts or discussions coming to fruition, pointing towards anticipated growth and emerging opportunities within the league.
• 45:00 - 51:00: Conclusion The chapter titled 'Conclusion' explores the narrator's perspective on why they haven't watched NBA or men's basketball in nine years, describing it as boring and lame. They argue that women's basketball is better because it involves playing underneath the rim most of the time, which necessitates honing skills and being more fundamentally sound.

THE WNBA RUNS PRO BASKETBALL. THE NBA IS DEAD. WOMEN RUN EVERYTHING BUT FOOTBALL AND BASEBALL. ESPN Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 for
• 00:30 - 01:00 for
• 01:00 - 01:30 for for
• 01:30 - 02:00 okay let me just I just need to hear up
• 02:00 - 02:30 and get this over with so it's over with and I told you guys this years ago
• 02:30 - 03:00 I haven't watched the NBA in nine years or men's basketball in general I told you it was boring it was lame and I told you why it was boring and it was lame you understand I told you why women's basketball was better because when you play underneath the rim 99% of the time you have to hone your skills you have to be more fundamentally sound
• 03:00 - 03:30 you have to be more skilled you have a better IQ on top of the women playing with more fire intensity passion emotion energy and effort than the man okay and so you see the Purity and beauty of basketball and then you add to that the evolution of the female athlete athletically okay and so you just get a
• 03:30 - 04:00 more spectacular product then you add in women who are stars and Superstars and who transcend the sport then you add in beautiful women women where you don't mind having pictures of them all over your room and not look like an entire pause used to be a time when you were a little boy you can have NBA players in
• 04:00 - 04:30 your room all posters Fatheads all of that stuff it was okay now that's a pause and it should be a pause but that's not an issue with women so I can have Ria Jackson on my wall and camon Brink and Caitlyn Clark right I could have all of them on my wall I could have Ray Burell on my wall I could have Asia Wilson on my wall I could have all of these beautiful women
• 04:30 - 05:00 and women's basketball on my wall okay I can get behind these women these are beautiful women they're sexy they're fine they're intelligent they're smart they're spectacular in every way they're well spoken articulate educated all of that and they're some of the best hoopers on Earth okay it was inevitable it was going to happen right
• 05:00 - 05:30 and then men love looking at women especially fine beautiful sexy women right and it's not a pause so you mean to tell me I get the best basketball there is in terms of the product how pure it is I get the best basketball whether that's individual whether that's team ball or when you getting down into the scars you break it down into his intricate State it's granulated State it's GR
• 05:30 - 06:00 State and you start getting into the X's and O's that's better it's a chess match on top of the fact that these women are beautiful these are gorgeous women right so of course it would just the NBA was finished it was over with it was all over with y'all and I told y'all this now why why is the NBA boring the NBA is boring because everyone is too tall tall that's number
• 06:00 - 06:30 one and so everything that they do doesn't look impressive anymore everyone is 6' 11 7t 7'2 6'9 right the ram is only 10t tall and so that's the equivalent of you going to an elementary school playing on a 78ft rim it's just not impressive the court is only 94 ft and these players are really tall and so they scale the court in no time so even running doesn't look
• 06:30 - 07:00 impressive anymore okay and so you're dealing with that you're dealing with a lack of fundamentals you're dealing with poor coaching and poor Player Development these players aren't skilled you're dealing with complacency apathy okay and just lazy basketball that just look uncoordinated it looks Merit trious okay it looks like an
• 07:00 - 07:30 allstar game everyone is shooting threes everyone is copying and mimicking everyone else is play Styles and schemes and systems offensively okay you're switching everything and so there's just no Nuance there's no substance there's no complexity to it on defense or offense it's pretty simple you allow analytics to ruin the game and so everyone is just shooting threes or dunking or doing a layup up and so you cut out the in
• 07:30 - 08:00 between game and your logic or rationale is that well the analytics say three is better than two why would I shoot a long two a mid-range shot when I can just get to the get to the rim and dunk or do a layup or just settle for three because three is greater than two okay well what you're forgetting about is the beauty of the mid-range game right what you're forgetting about is the complexities the sophistication of the in between game and that made basketball beautiful okay
• 08:00 - 08:30 and how you were able to get around schemes and zones and mans and hybrid zones using the in between game and how that also helped the overall individuals game because it made them have a better slide of hand it kept everyone off balance okay and which made it more beautiful right so I can be on a perimeter and you got to respect my perimeter shot so I can pump fake and then when I get into the in between game
• 08:30 - 09:00 I can hit you with a shot hesi because like you're gonna bite on it because I'm so good in the mid-range and I hit you with a shot hesy boom I hit you with in and out and then penetrate right or I could pump fake on the perimeter come in and hit you with a nice little Fade Away mid-range shot right because I've been going to the left so normally what you see me do is that you'll see me pump fake on the perimeter or hit you with a shot Hy on the perimeter I'll dribble in and then I'll was spin to my left and
• 09:00 - 09:30 attack the ram I did that two three times already with success either I shot it when I spent to my left or I kicked it to a teammate a cutter a teammate so now you're you're worried about me so I hit you with a shot Hy on the perimeter I pretend that I'm about to spin in my left and then I hit you with a fade away right or I can counter that shot hesy on the perimeter dribble into the mid-range have spin to my left you bite
• 09:30 - 10:00 I pump fake fade away you think about to do a fade away and then I do a step through all of these different moves all of these different moves just off of the had the in between game can keep everything off balance okay and that's where the beauty comes in at that's where the painting comes in at that's where the Artistry comes in at so you kill the art there is no art there is no
• 10:00 - 10:30 creativity when there's only two things three-point shooting dunks or layups and there's no need for you to have any sophistication with your defense okay which is why they switch everything which is why they want everyone tall so they could switch on everyone and so there's no complexity to it and soone like no one really cares and that is the huge problem that's the main problem with the with the NBA it's
• 10:30 - 11:00 too simple it's not complex or sophisticated it's sloppy there's very little fundamentals there's really no skill it's too predictable these players are fat and happy and lazy and apathetic and complacent because they're multi-millionaires and they just don't really care anymore okay and it's soft this Ticky Tac you throw in gambling the Integrity is gone the officiating is sus the
• 11:00 - 11:30 league is sus you flooded with tons of commercials and no one really everyone is tall and so the dunks don't look impressive because everyone is too tall and everything just looks lame and now it looks like a gimmick it looks like you're trolling because now you're trying to get 7 foot4 dudes to play small forward Wing shooting guard and you trying to create real life demig gods and that looks stupid so now it looks like a clown show it doesn't it
• 11:30 - 12:00 doesn't look adult it doesn't look respectable okay and so it's a bad product it's a substandard product and that's why it's failing that's why the product is failing and then you did something even worse is that you hurt it on the Collegiate level by allowing these one and done you see it was beautiful when you first started letting players in from high school because that was something we never seen before that's going way back to Moses Malone
• 12:00 - 12:30 right but everyone was intrigued you talking about Kobe O can Kobe play against these NBA players who stayed three four years in college and these are NBA legends let's see how young 18 19y old Kobe does o Kevin Garnett fresh out of high school ooh um Amari STM like these different players that left from high school they didn't go to college but this was at a time when the NBA was at its best it was skilled sophisticated
• 12:30 - 13:00 complex household names Superstars Legends Hall of Famers the coaching was Sublime everything was beautiful and to take someone like Kobe Bryant or Kevin Garnett or Mari stmy and you put them at 19 years old or Dwight Howard in the W in the NBA amongst all of these Legends when back when the NBA was at its purest State okay it made it intriguing can this 18 19y old really do damage in the
• 13:00 - 13:30 NBA and it made Kevin Garnett and Kobe Legends it made Amari staya Legend it made Dwight Howard the legend right but then you was like o let's keep doing it and so what you forgot is that you would dilute and deplete everything right and you let in a cancer a disease so you let in a lack of fundamentals and a lack of skill right all to a piece you were trying to Target that 15 to 34 year old demographic by bringing in
• 13:30 - 14:00 these high schoolers okay but you brought in a lack of fundamentals and then you said okay well let's cut out High School which is what they did and let them play one year college that wasn't good enough okay right because they don't have time to develop and so now you're flooding the NBA with all of this underdeveloped product this underdeveloped talent and it made your league look less fundamentally sound less skilled sloppy okay on top of the
• 14:00 - 14:30 other part of it which was that you these aren't known household names because they didn't stay in college long enough okay but men's college basketball also hurt it because they kept the two 20 minute halves which is a snoozefest okay so you didn't evolve you didn't innovate because you kept the two 20 minute halves everything looks rigid and robotic in man's college basketball
• 14:30 - 15:00 it's really predictable that's also a problem right because you're under this thumb of the coaches and there's no true individuality in men's Collegiate basketball on top of the fact you're still doing two 20 minute halves then you you couple that you add to that the fact that all of these one and done and then they come into the NBA they're not Stars they're they don't have enough skill they don't have fundamentals they don't really know the game of
• 15:00 - 15:30 basketball okay and that's the problem and then you're entering a league full of analytics coaches in their coaching staff and they're not good coaches okay many of them never played the game they're not good coaches then everyone is Rich they're making 300 4002 200 million dollar okay even the last person on the bench is a millionaire and then you add into it social media and culture and societ iy and everyone is complacent
• 15:30 - 16:00 apathetic entitled arrogant Hardy lazy wannab be followers Pretenders trying to be something that they're not and then everything just goes to hell and it's just sloppy and then you say well listen um I don't want to have the in between game I don't care about post game I don't care about low post I don't care about high post I don't care about the mid-range game I care about threes and I care about layups and dunks okay and so like I said the defense is
• 16:00 - 16:30 saying well we don't really need to do much why don't we just switch everything right so screw Zone screw triangle and two screw hybrid zones right just screw it all let's just switch everything well how would that work if we switch everything if you have someone 6' 10 and the person that switches on to them is only 6' three but why don't we just bring in everyone like Pat Raley said in the in the late 80s when he said the future of the NBA will
• 16:30 - 17:00 be everyone is 69 or taller playing every position hey maybe Pat rally was right that way we can be lazy and then we could switch everything and so now everyone is 68 69 610 611 7 fet 71 72 73 and so you can just switch everything and so now everything is lazy you see I sto watching the NBA and men's basketball nine years ago because I saw this on my IG account my Ig post went
• 17:00 - 17:30 viral it went viral when I made a post about Steph Curry I said Steph Curry it it's not his fault but he's going to ruin basketball and then I also brought up NBA 2K as well how NBA 2K plays a role in keeping your sons out of these parks and from honing their skills and they trying to copy everything that they see in the park in the city in NBA 2k so it's all of this vanity basketball let me ISO ISO put you on skates put you on
• 17:30 - 18:00 skates and shoot deep threes because I'm copying off of NBA 2K to city right then Steph Curry making it famous right making it the motion to move to just shoot a bunch of deep threes okay so that killed the in between game that killed the high post that killed the low post the mid-range game okay so now it's about vanity basketball ISO let me put you on skates and let me shoot deep threes let me embarrass you once again it turned into an One Park basketball
• 18:00 - 18:30 Allstar basketball that's the problem and NBA 2K plays a role in that but people who don't know this NBA 2K plays a role these people play 2K and when they go to the court they trying to act like 2K okay these same this is what has happened so it's just a mess it's this cocktail Confluence of a mess and that's why the NBA has failed okay it has
• 18:30 - 19:00 failed that's the problem y'all and so what the WNBA did is that the WNBA well women's basketball they always had to get it off the muscle and off the hustle because nothing was ever given to them they had to earn everything because they couldn't jump as high as men right they weren't as athletic as the males and so everything they did underneath the rim had to be perfected this is why the post game had to be perfected the high post had to be perfected the mid-range had to be perfected okay the perimeter game had
• 19:00 - 19:30 to be perfected everything the passing had to be perfected the cutting had to be perfected the screening had to be perfected the hedging had to be perfected the zones had to be perfected all of the X's and O's the floaters the teardrops the runners the spin moves the half spin moves the in and out the hesis the shot hesis everything the stutters the stopping goals the blowb the manipulation the slight of hands
• 19:30 - 20:00 everything had to be perfected because it was played primarily 99% underneath the rim on top of women are more emotional or more passionate than men and that's a good thing and sometimes it can be a bad thing because it can be a jod Aras type of situation right but it's a good thing women just play with more emotion this is why every single game feels like it's a final four
• 20:00 - 20:30 it feels like a playoff game even in the preseason you can watch a WNBA preseason game and if you didn't know any better you would think that you were watching a WNBA game five finals this is the way it is in college basketball this is the way it is in the WNBA every game these women play like their life depends on it okay so they're not complacent they're not apathetic and if you ever see a woman in the WNBA who
• 20:30 - 21:00 doesn't play like her life is on the line it's glaring she sticks out like a sore thumb and this is when people have issues with Nelissa Smith okay this is when people have issues at times with tiara maowen and they could highlight certain players and they say she's playing lazy because literally 99% of everyone is playing like it's game five of the WNBA finals you can always spot a slacker in the WNBA because that's not
• 21:00 - 21:30 normal right what's normal is every game is game five of the WNBA finals even if it's a preseason game everyone has the WNBA app it's it's literally free this month right because of athletes unlimited literally the wnb app is 100% free for the month of February go back to last year preseason game against Indiana Fever in the Dallas wings that game was played like it was a playoff game even the coaches was like this is like a a real game it was it was
• 21:30 - 22:00 a freaking playoff game that's the preseason but then you say oh but that's because everybody was happy to see Kay and Clark no no no no go watch all of last year's preseason games these are freaking WNBA finals games but it's always been this way because women just care more right the lashes the fingernails I'm just speaking about women in general you can all sloppy woman she wears a bonnet and some slides
• 22:00 - 22:30 and some some boxer briefs no we're not talking about those women the woman who just go to the grocery store and some box of briefs a bonnet some slides or some leggings like we're not talking about them normally women listen the eyeliner the lashes the lip gloss the lipstick the makeup Contour Foundation blush eyes Shadow hair nails you name manicures pedicures perfume
• 22:30 - 23:00 scented the the way the hair smells how they dress how they walk how they move how they talk their mannerisms everything about about majority of women is not lazy it's assiduous okay they care they care they care right and so because women just they're just more passionate they're more emotional they put their all into
• 23:00 - 23:30 it you can spot a lazy woman okay but the majority of women that's just not who they are these women will spend thousands of dollars just for one night men won't do that okay that's the difference and so when you bring that into sports the fact that the female gender is just more passionate more intense more emotional than men is that a good thing it's a phenomenal thing but can it be Danger yes because you can get a jod Aras situation where she stabs
• 23:30 - 24:00 Travis Travis Alexander to death because she's pissed that he's treating her like a and a piece of trash he doesn't want to really be with her so she kills him so sometimes the emotions of a woman can go completely off the rails but when it's channeled into something positive there's nothing better and that's why the WNBA is where it is today now the WNBA has always had this product it's just that they were dealing with sexism and misogyny with media the networks
• 24:00 - 24:30 controlled by 99% men and they only gave women's the WNBA 4% media coverage with all women sports combined and so you couldn't find the WNBA unless you had the WNBA app or unless you were paying attention to ESPN2 or ESPN news or things like that you really couldn't see the WNBA unless you were a true fan of the WNBA that's the media's fault the male controlled media only allowing women to split 4% of media coverage that
• 24:30 - 25:00 was a massive problem then they switched it they increased it to 15% a few years ago that's still pathetic on top of only giving women less than 10% of marketing dollars until Cathy Eagle BG forced them to give her 75 million so then she can improve the WNBA app and the website and do some other things and then she was able to bring on more corporate sponsors partners and then she was able to get a better media media rights deal even
• 25:00 - 25:30 before kit and Clark it was going to be the best media rights deal they've ever had K and Clark just took it to a different level that no one ever thought would be um that no one ever thought that it would be this quick okay so salute to K and Clark anger and the other women who played a factor in into that okay so what Caitlyn Clark did is that she put this the WNBA under this huge Spotlight she opened all of the windows and everyone was able to say I like the way DJ plays defense man Kelsey
• 25:30 - 26:00 mitchu was really nice damn nefisa is a complete player right and so they all of their eyes were open to all of these different W man I love Sophie's passion man Sophie can really shoot that three damn Julie van L is tough damn Banna Stewart is really skilled yo jqu Jones remind me of the female Kevin Durant right so all man Leon feish is she's like a different kind of Luca Don like every 's eyes was opened because citon
• 26:00 - 26:30 and Clark and we got to show love to angrew ree too but CIT and Clark opened the windows for everyone to see all of this talent that men running the networks buried okay and the narrative was spent even by players like Draymond Green women go back into the kitchen women make me a sandwich blah blah no one want to watch that crap no one want to watch that crap they don't even dunk lower the ram lower the rim man these women aren't stronger than men all of is BS but what
• 26:30 - 27:00 they forgot is skill fundamentals the Purity the X andos the intelligence the IQ the sophistication the complexities the challenges all of that stuff matter the effort the intensity what is everyone saying about the All-Star Game the all the NBA Allstar games suck because they don't care they don't care they don't play with no energy they don't play with any effort even in the regular season in the playoffs they're not really playing with any energy and effort where the women bring that no no matter what the women bring that if it's a
• 27:00 - 27:30 preseason game they don't that's because that's how women are they always play with more fire passion and intensity than men and salute to Kate and Clark for opening those windows so you can see this and so now what happens the WNBA is getting more coverage than ever before when they were only giving them 4% media coverage and then bumped it up to just 15 with all women sports combined right so now they're getting more coverage they're getting more marketing dollars
• 27:30 - 28:00 they're getting more investors right they're getting more Partners more media okay more owners more expansion more spotlight they're taking over social media the WNBA was trending like the last three days if you look on Twitter it was trending for sports for like the last three days right and like I said before and listen I guess in their minds they thought oh the WNBA will always be a bunch of ugly women a bunch of black
• 28:00 - 28:30 lesbian white lesbian ugly women they didn't see Ria Jackson coming they didn't see the fact that gu guu entering his lead they didn't see Cameron Brink like they didn't see Ray barell they didn't see all of these beautiful women in the WNBA and the women's college basketball right they didn't see these things like they never saw this coming that you factoring Grace Beauty energy passion love intensity effort emotion skill
• 28:30 - 29:00 fundamentals IQ intelligence complexity sophistication Elite chess matching chess master coaching culture all of these things and the fact that you're only talking about 12 13 teams and so you're essentially watching a league of 13 Olympic teams cuz these are for the most part the very best of the very best of the very best of the very best unlike
• 29:00 - 29:30 the NBA where you're talking about 30 players per team um you know everything is just freaking diluted and just all of that other stuff and so like people people just never paid attention people never paid attention and it just blew up in their face it blew up in their face you understand and so now everybody looking silly right now everyone looking silly right now that's a true story that's a true story that's a true story so that's really what I wanted to say about it um I'm I'm
• 29:30 - 30:00 listening to everything going on on Twitter about the NBA Allstar game and I'm laughing I'm seeing Jason Whitlock say the WNBA has taken over the NBA I'm like I've been saying that forever and ever you understand and so like you see all of these things and now everyone is starting to see the light everyone is starting to wake up right I've been preaching this forever I've been preaching even the whole Asia Wilson thing with the shoe I'm the first one to
• 30:00 - 30:30 make videos that Asia Wilson had her shoe two years ago I'm the first one to make those videos now everybody was like oh my gosh the truth came out she knew about her shoe two years ago I'm like dude I made that video over a year ago what are we talking about here you know so I just sit back and I watch people catch up you understand I'm already at the Finish Line laughing at people and I'm just watching everyone I'm like come here come here catch up catch up you understand catch up catch up you you
• 30:30 - 31:00 know it's just like even my hat right now I'm just doing things different I don't even like wearing regular hats like everything is just different