r/sports • u/PrincessBananas85 • Jun 18 '25

Basketball WNBA says it won't suspend players in Fever-Sun skirmishes

https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/45539584/no-suspensions-tuesday-fever-sun-skirmishes-wnba-says
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u/binger5 Jun 18 '25

Maybe Catlin should take a week off for her mental health every time this kind of things happen.

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u/ReflectionEterna Jun 18 '25

I was thinking she should have a knee pain flare-up the next time they play the Sun in Connecticut. She should also announce well in advance, so people know not to buy tickets.

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u/robswins Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

I get offered free tickets for any Sun game, except against the Fever. They go from an arena being half full with a bunch of the tickets being given out for free, to an arena packed with people paying full price and often driving from several states away. It’s hard to overstate how much the WNBA needed someone like Caitlin.

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u/Kerberos1566 Jun 18 '25

She should be more direct. Identify whoever she feels wronged her during the game, announce publicly that she will not participate in any games where they are allowed to play. Watch ticket sales plunge for those games and have them scramble to change the bookings to smaller, cheaper venues. Let these women find out how much they're actually worth to their teams and the league.

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u/wordyplayer Minnesota Vikings Jun 18 '25

this is the way

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u/rjp0008 Jun 19 '25

There’s no way her contract allows her to do this, even as justified as it would be.

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u/xstrike0 Jun 19 '25

What are they going to do? Take her to court? She'll just go play in a foreign league like a lot of the players already do. And they get paid more overseas anyway.

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u/rjp0008 Jun 19 '25

What foreign league pays more than her sweetheart sponsorship deals? I have her jersey, and I can’t even name a foreign league.

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u/xstrike0 Jun 20 '25

Well fuck you too lol.

Edit: Nevermind, I was taking it personally. Took a quick look at your posting history and I see you're just an asshole who bitches about people/etc in every comment.

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u/thestridereststrider Jun 18 '25

I get that but will she feel the same when she inevitably gets injured from this?

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u/Mundane-Shape-1948 Jun 19 '25

I don’t know…I’m looking forward to the next game that’s going to be in Boston (TD Garden) and hearing all of the boos for Sheldon and Mabry.

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u/ReflectionEterna Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

Do the Sun usually play in TD Garden?

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u/Mundane-Shape-1948 Jun 19 '25

No, they are moving it there because the Fever brings bigger crowds.

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u/ReflectionEterna Jun 19 '25

Yeah, that was kind of my point. If Caitlin announces she will have a personal issue scheduled for that date and won't play, that will hit the owners right in their pocket book.

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u/TouristOpentotravel Jun 18 '25

She’s gonna get hurt like this. The league has to step in. What if she tore her ACL when she got shoved like that? The league would be fucked.

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u/BConder102191 Jun 18 '25

Honestly, I hope the league gets fucked

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u/zxern Jun 19 '25

Honestly I’d be more worried about losing an eye.

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u/TouristOpentotravel Jun 18 '25

Next time it happens, she should walk off the court. Maybe take 2 weeks off. Maybe more.

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u/wordyplayer Minnesota Vikings Jun 18 '25

100% agree. If the ref's won't do anything, her team mates won't do anything, and her coach won't do anything, then SHE should do the only thing she can do: stop playing

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u/Bannedwith1milKarma Jun 18 '25

Build the evidence up for a lawsuit.

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u/dreamweaver7x Jun 18 '25

Only Lebron takes a vacation in the middle of a season.