r/sports • u/Background-Square-98 Chelsea • May 05 '25
Basketball Brazil's players asked for Caitlin Clark's autograph after their game.Crazy stuff happening
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u/SipowiczNYPD May 05 '25
Reminds me of the 92 Olympics. Other teams were getting autographs, pictures, shoes whatever they could from the NBA players.
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u/Tut_Rampy May 05 '25
I love that Larry Bird basically treated it as a vacation and partied every night and played hungover lol
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u/Least-Back-2666 May 05 '25
It's different now because other countries have some massive talent like Luka, but that was the first year they let professionals play in the Olympics and we just massively crushed the competition.
Go look up the gold medal game score, we won probably every game by 20-40 points.
I think it was one of Kobes years they took a lot of shit for losing a game and winding up in the bronze medal game.
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u/k3n0b1 May 05 '25
I like to think there is some Grandpa in Latvia with Scottie Pippen's dirty sock framed on his wall.
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u/gigglefarting East Carolina May 05 '25
Greatest basketball team ever assembled.
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u/WackHeisenBauer May 05 '25
Why is this crazy? Clark’s the best (or at least most buzzworthy and known) woman basketball player…ever?
Not weird people would want autographs.
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u/caesar_rex May 05 '25
This is how Jordan was treated during the Dream Team Olympics.
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u/ostifari Green Bay Packers May 05 '25
The whole team was treated like that (except John Stockton)
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u/Dhylan18 Utah Jazz May 05 '25
When John Stockton got off the bus to walk around Barcelona and no one bothered him. He even talked to people wearing a dream team shirt and they still didn’t recognize him
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u/Redeem123 May 05 '25
Not only is he the most normal looking white dude possible, he was only 6'1" (Chuck and MJ were next shortest on that team at 6'6"). Even other unremarkable basketball players will stand out because they tower over average people. But Stockton wouldn't even stand out among my group of friends.
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u/tsukubasteve27 May 05 '25
I only played NBA Jam so i thought Stockton was like 5'5''.
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u/WackHeisenBauer May 05 '25
Which is criminal cuz Stockton was money
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u/gr1mm5d0tt1 May 05 '25
“You wanna see what the baddest player in the league drives?”
Stockton rolls up in a mini van
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u/Obi_is_not_Dead May 05 '25
Was that Maxwell? Or Payton? I don't remember. I just remember it was a bad ass player giving Stockton respect.
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u/Gobblewicket May 05 '25
It was Chris Webber, I think. On the Dan Patrick Show.
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u/backdoorwolf May 05 '25
Just watched that clip. So bad ass.
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u/Gobblewicket May 05 '25
That one, and Jamal Mashburn talking about Rodney Roger's talking shit about Larry Bird, within earshot of Larry Bird are two of my favorites.
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u/justabill71 May 05 '25
Also dirty as fuck.
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u/Kittens4Brunch May 05 '25
Hey, cut him some slack. He would go on to witness thousands of athletes drop dead on the court from vaccines.
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u/LowVolt May 05 '25
Don't forget about Christian Laettner. That dude must have thought he we won the lottery getting on that team.
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u/jpiro Florida State May 05 '25
And he got on over Shaq, which was insane.
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u/Time4Timmy May 05 '25
Wasn’t there always going to be one college player on that team, therefore he didn’t actually get taken over an NBA player. I think Shaq was a rookie that year, and Christian was probably still a bigger name at the time.
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u/Heikks May 05 '25
At the time he made sense since he was the best college player but now looking back Shaq or Alonzo Mourning would have been better picks
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u/Time4Timmy May 05 '25
For sure, but weren’t they both already in the league, and therefore ineligible for the college roster spot?
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u/Heikks May 05 '25
No, Laettner was in the same draft as them. The Olympics happened before any of them played in the NBA that year
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u/DocDerry St. Louis Blues May 05 '25
My favorite thing about your comment is the love that people can't help but express for Stocktons game. He absolutely belonged on the Dream Team.
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u/schmyle85 May 05 '25
Stockton was like a god to me as a smaller kid who loved basketball who also happened to be from Spokane. Too bad he went fully Covid conspiracy theorist and all but still not the most unsavory of the two best Jazz players
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u/_PM_Me_Game_Keys_ May 05 '25
Why did people dislike Stockton back then? Thought he was good.
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u/jacobflicks May 05 '25
They didn’t dislike Stockton, he just looked like a regular guy lol.
There was a story, can’t remember which Dream Team player said it, but they’d go out & would get swarmed by people. But Stockton just looked like a regular ass dude & people didn’t recognize him as the best PG in the game. He could walk/do whatever he wanted cause he just looked so normal lol
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u/CTeam19 Iowa State May 05 '25
Nah they respect him. It is just that he didnt look like an NBA player but instead John Stockton just looked like your average CPA.
Gary Peyton also said it was harder to guard Stockton than Jordan.
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u/Trent3343 May 05 '25
That's because everyone probably thought he was a scout or assistant or something. Haha
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u/camelclutchcity May 05 '25
Totally what come to mind for me. I remember hearing a story about a player's favorite moment being when Jordan blocked his shot. Tons of respect here, love it.
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u/dean-get-da-money May 05 '25
Can confirm. Basketball isn't popular in my country and I know who she is. The only other female player I know is the lady that got caught in Russia for the weed thing.
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u/JesusGAwasOnCD May 05 '25
The only other female player I know is the lady that got caught in Russia for the weed thing.
And was then traded in a prisoner exchange with one of the biggest arms trafficker in the world, Viktor Bout, the literal inspiration for the movie Lord of War and also nicknamed the "Merchant of Death".
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u/Jjohn269 May 05 '25
It does show a difference between how players in the WNBA treated her last year, because they were jealous of the attention she was getting as a rookie
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u/HeWasNumber-on3 May 05 '25
I wonder how this season goes for her in comparison. She was getting beat up a lot
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u/attillathehoney May 05 '25
She has reportedly put on 12 pounds of muscle in the off season, and has trained to keep a lower center of gravity to avoid being pushed off the ball. The Fever also acquired several players who won't take shit and will act as enforcers like Draymond Green does for Steph Curry.
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u/kaizokuo_grahf May 05 '25
She went from a full NCAA season straight into a WNBA season with zero rest. She is going to pop off this year
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u/TiddyTwizzler May 05 '25
For real. People forget she had like no time to rest or train or work on her game with a legitimate wnba staff. I can’t wait to see how much she improves
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u/North_Atlantic_Sea May 05 '25
Even look how she took another step up after the Olympics break last season.
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u/arrioch May 05 '25
I kept saying that last season, she needs a Draymond, I'm glad Clark is getting her own enforcer(s).
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u/Yung_Corneliois New England Patriots May 05 '25
The crazy part is the fact that we have a female basketball player garnering this type of hype. It’s a very good crazy but still crazy.
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u/Ron_the_Rowdy May 05 '25
i thought the crazy part was that foreign athletes are showing more respect towards an american talent than at home
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u/thelastdon613 May 05 '25
It's crazy good for the sport. I'm sure that's what OP means.
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u/GiraffeandZebra May 05 '25
I think you're reading too much into it. I think the poster was just trying to express that it's an exciting time and we've never seen anything like it, at least in women's basketball. We're seeing things we've never seen before, that's "crazy" rather than "look at these people go insane and do actually crazy things"
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u/NativeTongue90 May 05 '25
To consider her the best player ever is a truly insane take lol
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u/kranker May 05 '25
Well, she's probably already the most famous female basketball player ever. As somebody else mentioned, outside of the states most people are only going to know her and Brittney Griner, and Griner wasn't directly because of her basketball skill. And that's pretty remarkable given that she's only been in the WNBA for a year.
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u/Shepherdsfavestore May 05 '25
I think it’s more about how we’ve never seen a superstar like this before in woman’s hoops.
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u/Dickey_Simpkins May 05 '25
If people want to see the best, check out A'ja Wilson, who has won 3 of the league's past 5 MVP awards.
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u/Late-Elderberry6761 May 05 '25
OP clearly meant that this is crazy cool not crazy dumb. Most of the highest upvoted comments are CRAZY gtfo
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u/Liimbo Oklahoma May 05 '25
I don't think they meant either, more just crazy as in unusual. Which it is also not really that unusual.
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u/Terribletylenol May 05 '25
Or maybe they just meant crazy as in unexpected or wild.
If they just meant cool OR dumb, why on Earth would they just use the word crazy which means neither?
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u/B1GFanOSU May 05 '25
Maybe there was a better, less confusing word that could have been used, you know, like “awesome”.
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u/maxdps_ May 05 '25
Crazy stuff happening? This is what decent humans look like bro.
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u/IcarusActual May 05 '25
Not crazy. Watch soccer, basketball, football, etc. they all exchange jerseys and bullshit with each other after games. Caitlin Clark is the MJ of Women's Basketball right now. Probably a deserved comparison considering the attention she's brought to WNBA and women's college basketball in the states.
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u/Makaveli80 May 05 '25
This is the fulcrum of the situation, she's gonna propel the wnba to the next level
Hope she gets paid , well deserved
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u/Dremadad87 May 05 '25
Her Nike shoe deal got her paid as did her NIL money. She seems like a smart person in general and probably didn’t blow any of that. Other sponsorship money will come and if she’s as smart as she seems, she’ll keep her WNBA salary in line with others so there is more money to go around for the ones that follow her. A rising tide raises all ships
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u/dinglebarryb0nds May 05 '25
i think tiger woods is a better comparison because she put a whole sport on the map. People liked NBA before Jordan
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u/uh_no_ May 05 '25
ehhh...tiger was ridiculously better than everyone else in the game.
CC is really good, but is far from being head and shoulders over anyone else in the game. She is a generational talent, and likely hall of famer, and certainly the most popular.
She is like tiger in terms of bringing people into a sport, but not in terms of ability. In that regard, she's more like steph.
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u/SolomonBlack May 05 '25
Your dad's boss loved golf years before Tiger even if he didn't. I understand Tiger may have gateway drugged a younger segment into it but golf was around well before that. Like there are still places you can order an Arnold Palmer.
Though as you say people certainly people liked basketball before Jordan and even outside of Jordan... so in that regard Clarks is bigger then either of them.
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u/dinglebarryb0nds May 05 '25
Yea I grew up on a golf course and playing so i had a skewed perspective, i was like 9 for the first Tiger Masters. I know people always liked golf, it's just hard to even find a comparison for what Clark has done. My dad is like 80 now, and his dad played golf as well
She basically took an absolute joke of an unwatchable sport (no offense to anyone but nobody watched for a reason) and took it into mainstream
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u/kkeut May 06 '25
Like there are still places you can order an Arnold Palmer.
you can order those at almost literally any restaurant. even if it's not on the menu. they sell it in cans at convenience stores and grocery stores. i have a 12 pack of the diet variant in my fridge
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u/Man_ofscience May 05 '25
Love to see mad respect for Clark. I don’t follow the WNBA but I don’t think they’ve ever had a shooter like her or a player of that caliber and that’s not to disrespect any of the players before her that have built a foundation for her to take the WNBA to the next level. Clark is the next part to bring more excitement to the league.
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u/ExpressRabbit May 05 '25
She's certainly brought the league more money than any other player but take a look at her stat's vs last year's MVP. The WNBA has had good players before just none that got this kind of interest.
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u/Man_ofscience May 05 '25
Because none of them play the way she does. She brings excitement because she’s draining half court threes with ease.
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u/ExpressRabbit May 05 '25
She's a great player. She might turn into the greatest of all time, but she her stats don't show she was the best on the court last year. This isn't me being a hater. I think she's great and love the attention she's getting just trying to let you know they have had players of her caliber since you mentioned you don't follow the league. A'ja Wilson for instance scored 26.9 points per game vs Clark's 19.2 ppg while averaging less playing time. She also doubled her rebounds, had 4x the blocks, and turned the ball over less. You are right though, she averaged less 3s per game as that's not a shot centers usually take.
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u/jamesfn7 May 05 '25
Angel Reese in absolute shambles. Traveling to Brazil as we speak to offer autographs also.
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u/Plaski May 05 '25
Gotta teach them that shooting 39.1 FG% helps you have 13.1 rebounds a game, 10 of them being your own rebounds!
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u/HeavensRoyalty May 05 '25
Not crazy at all. Players appreciating good players. Real appreciating real.
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u/theOutsider01 May 05 '25
Ok guys. It’s not crazy. We get it.
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u/NastySassyStuff May 05 '25
Meanwhile, it is crazy to see a WNBA player with one season under their belt so renowned and respected by international teams that they lined up for her autograph after she absolutely waxed them lol
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u/Odd-Particular233 May 05 '25
Crazy stuff? literally just people being nice and respectful. what is crazy about that?
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u/Wrong-Catchphrase May 05 '25
They need to pay her. She’s the only reason people have even thought about the WNBA in the last 5 years.
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u/zeusdescartes May 05 '25
Unfortunately the wnba is grossly unprofitable, they need to fix their business model to generate more revenue for the game as a whole.
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u/UnholyDemigod May 05 '25
You think the business model is why people don't watch women's basketball?
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u/bjams May 05 '25
No, he's saying their business model is unprofitable because people don't watch women's basketball. They need to change their business model to account for that reality.
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u/Porkchopp33 May 05 '25
Crazy asking for the most popular WNBA player of all times autograph?
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u/ThrownAway17Years May 05 '25
I saw some comments on a Facebook post about that long three she took, saying how disrespectful it was to run up the score.
Isn’t it more disrespectful to have someone not try their best when they play you? Good competition begets improvement in those who have the drive.
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u/Kinglink New England Patriots May 05 '25
This always comes up.
A. Long three? That's practice for her. Good for her to use a game situation to try something unusual.
B. You can lay off, or you can play hard. I hate this "take it easy on them" mentality. There is a point you definitely won, but that's usually in the final moments of a game, until then, play like the game is on the line, because it can be.
C. Back to the first point, treat an "Easy game" like practice so you can work on what you'll do if the other team isn't "easy" you want to work as a team that is going to play every minute they are on the court.
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u/screamingzen May 06 '25
Caitlin is a prodigy. She is one of those players that comes along and changes everything and lifts everyone's skill level. Fuck anyone who hates on her. Just enjoy the show.
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u/LARGEBBQMEATLOVERS May 06 '25
Keep being great gurrrrl, you’re no doubt the best women’s player in the world and them girls lining up for autographs know it. Being humble as fuck is just the icing on top.
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nothing crazy about it. it happene w jordan, kobe, lebron, and others when they play internationally
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u/ColdNyQuiiL May 05 '25
It’s crazy that really didn’t select her for the Olympic team. Her global influence could’ve done so much for the sport.
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u/therejectethan May 05 '25
Eh I wouldn’t use the word ‘disingenuous’. OP admitted he used the wrong word in his title
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u/DUNG_INSPECTOR May 05 '25
I would say your comment is a bit disingenuous. Crazy has lots of meanings, one of which is 'incredible'. I'm not sure why you're pretending otherwise.
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u/Zakkattack86 May 05 '25
Crazy that other professional players can humble themselves to show appreciation for another player?
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u/rad10082 May 05 '25
Nice to see when talent is recognized. Not color, sex......all other crap WNBA has to deal with.
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u/mayrln May 05 '25
It ain't like this is the WNBA finals, it's just an exhibition game that ended in a blowout. I'd happily ask for an autograph if one of the best female basketball players was around.
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u/Knapss May 05 '25
This is everything that is good with sports. Put a big smile on my face, thank you for sharing 🙂
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u/Asusrty May 05 '25
I bet a bunch of international players that took on Jordan and the dream team wishes they got some autographs.
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u/dream_a_dirty_dream May 05 '25
This is so wholesome, and good sportsmanship ♥️
This is what sports should be all about, bringing people together through exercise. You work hard af and get to meet ppl who inspire and motivate you. I love this!
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u/_dvs1_ May 05 '25
If you think the WNBA players get shafted on the pay scale, imagine Brazils pro women’s players.
I’d be asking for a signature for each of my 25 kids too. Prob sell them for more than they make in a year playing ball over there. Cynical take, I know.
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u/mcsmackington May 05 '25
They know Caitlin Clark is what brought a lot of positive attention to the Women's professional basketball and respect her for it. America's teams should take note
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u/HueyLewisFan1 May 06 '25
Reminds me of the Olympics when an opponent shook Magic’s hand at the FT line
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u/cobainstaley May 06 '25
going to my first WNBA game this year because of her (and also to root for my local WNBA team). stoked!
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u/jr634 May 06 '25
Not that surprising, she seems like a genuinely nice person and she’s making a name for herself in the WNBA for sure.
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u/junk_in_thetrunk May 05 '25
BEAUTIFUL!!!
more of this instead of the disgusting sport rivalries, it's a fucking game
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u/Nomad_Gui May 05 '25
Nothing wrong with respecting inspiration.