WNBA thread… 28.5 ain’t your pay cut

When do we hear the "outrage" that Clark isn't on the Olympic women's team?

 

They haven't announced the team yet. They have until July 7 and I assume they will wait to the deadline to see if there are injuries during the season leading up to the break

 

While I don't know if Clark is the fourth or fifth or sixth best guard in the US - I'm sure NBC - and the women's USA hoop squad would welcome the attention she would bring to the team. Jealousy? Sure. But the US women's team gets very little pub during the Olympics because there is so little drama in their games, I actually think the other players would welcome a little more primetime coverage than they usually get during the Games - which is maybe some look-ins on the early rounds - and the final.

 

I think this is actually it. Gregg, for better and worse (and this is definitely for worse), leans into where he is and makes it who he is. He was the fuck you let's fucking rumble guy at CBSSports.com. Then he went to Indy and he became the small-town sentimentalist sticking up for oft-beleaguered Indiana/Indianapolis. The Colts are mostly a mess w/Irsay running the show, the Pacers haven't won a playoff series since 2014, the Fever were bad enough to get Clark, Purdue kept finding new and interesting ways to choke and Indiana hoops is irrelevant and clinging to past glories. So there's not much going their way.

But this month has been great for Indiana and great/awful for Gregg's persona. Purdue made it to the national title game and he turned it into good vs. evil and wrote about Dan Hurley's insane sideline demeanor. Is Hurley insane? Yes. But he's just the most honest of his peers, all of whom are as insane but have a filter. Also, he's an incredible coach who just built a back-to-back champion. Also, Gregg writes in a state where Bob Knight is an icon. Maybe lay off on writing about how poorly behaved coaches are bad!

Getting Clark is a huge boon for the Indy area so my guess is Gregg went all-in on the Chamber of Commerce angle and the word diarrhea tumbled from his mouth. The heart thing was bad enough and the comment thereafter was just the dumbest doubling down. But let's be careful about piling on the guy and joining alliances with the bad faith actors looking to get their hypocritical pounds of flesh. Fuck Dave Portnoy, who is a walking sexual assault. Fuck Outkick too, which wants to screech about how trans athletes are dangerous to women athletes but couldn't name every WNBA franchise if you gave them an hour on Wikipedia.

 

To advance the calendar comp, they put Laettner on the Dream Team and not Shaq.

 

This is your starting point, the training camp roster, and one isn't going to make it because the limit is 12:

Diana Taurasi
Ariel Atkins
Chelsea Gray
Brittney Griner
Jewell Loyd
Kelsey Plum
Breanna Stewart
A’ja Wilson
Jackie Young
Shakira Austin
Sabrina Ionescu
Aliyah Boston
Rhyne Howar

If you look at the last Olympic roster and want to assume, these seven would be back:

Taurasi
Atkins
Gray
Griner
Loyd
Stewart
Wilson

Of the onthers:

Skylar Diggins-Smith
Sue Bird
Napheesa Collier
Sylvia Fowles
Tina Charles

Diggins-Smith and Collier would be the only potential keepers.

 

This is a Devil 93 post. Wow.

 

It’s good for the player.

 

"On our next 'Good Bones,' Mina and Karen are back in Fountain Square refurbishing a quaint but expensive cottage-like home for Caitlin Clark!."

 

So Clark hits her first two 30-foot bombs. She'll be OK.

In other news, I am watching a WNBA preseason game. So there's that.

 

Silent punishment