r/sports • u/GreenSnakes_ • Jul 21 '25
Basketball Several WNBA players were denied entry into a nightclub after the All-Star Game this weekend. “We in the W (WNBA), and just got done with the All-Star game; we shouldn’t even be waiting in no line.”
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u/Kronzor_ Jul 21 '25
If someone told me they were in the "W" I would have absolutely no idea what they were talking about.
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u/badlilbadlandabad Jul 21 '25
Oh you’re in the W? Well now you’re in the queue.
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u/galagapilot Jul 21 '25
The Dub = WHL or Western Hockey League.
It has been using that nickname for decades.
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u/Kronzor_ Jul 21 '25
I live in Western Canada. They would only ever say the "dub". If I heard someone say "double-you" I would assume they were just making shit up.
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u/weareallgonnadiesoon Jul 21 '25
If you have to explain to people who you are, you are not a VIP!
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u/BIGG_FRIGG Jul 21 '25
But she said they was in the "W" what more do you need to hear...?
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u/floedi97 Jul 21 '25
I'm a hockey fan so if you say to me you're in 'the dub' (the w) I assume you play in the WHL
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u/-y_e-e_t- Jul 21 '25
I thought it was George Bush themed club and thats why she said it
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u/Theslootwhisperer Jul 21 '25
VIP is like influencer. You don't decide you're it. We'll let you know.
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u/ebb5 Jul 21 '25
The majority of the nation would not recognize 99% of athletes in street clothes.
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u/ImpenetrableYeti Jul 21 '25
Normalize not letting celebs cut the lines to bars for entry
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u/RSN_Kabutops Jul 21 '25
Using the term celeb here generously
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u/Tidalsky114 Jul 21 '25
Seriously..this video is probably making more people aware of her being in the wnba than being in the wnba is.
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u/brett1081 Jul 21 '25
Shane Gillis would agree.
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u/captaincumsock69 Jul 21 '25
I can’t believe they didn’t let 4x allstar Brittney Hicks into the club
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u/drukard_master Jul 21 '25
The only two people I know by name in the WNBA are Caitlyn Clark and Brittney Hicks.
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u/Vazhox Jul 21 '25
And people more aware of how trashy they are
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u/EggsceIlent Dallas Cowboys Jul 21 '25
They all hate each other anyways.
Dunno why you'd want that up in your club.
Miss me with that bullshit.
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u/Zokar49111 Jul 21 '25
They would’ve gotten in if Caitlin was with them.
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u/Forschungsamt Jul 21 '25
You mean, they would have stood there and watched Caitlin get in.
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u/onewander Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25
Reminds me of Shane Gillis' WNBA joke from the ESPYs last week lol
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u/LarBrd33 Jul 21 '25
Was it bill simmons who asked, “would you rather your city win the WNBA championship or find a 5 dollar bill on the ground?”
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u/718Brooklyn Jul 21 '25
I think my city DID win the championship. My daughter found a $20 on the ground a few weeks ago that was more exciting. Wow, I lived this hypothetical question!
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u/Dropcanopy Jul 21 '25
No they would need to win 4 championships to match the excitement of finding a $20
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u/Spladook Edmonton Oilers Jul 21 '25
I couldn’t name these players just by watching the video, and I feel like I’m a pretty above average sports fan.
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u/SkoolBoi19 Jul 21 '25
If you will bring a crowd, you’re probly getting into a business that wants a crowd.
Like why wouldn’t a club let Denzel Washington skip line, people will come just because he’s in the building and some people will come because he was there last month
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u/enad58 Jul 21 '25
If these girls could bring a crowd, they'd get paid like they could bring a crowd.
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u/Remsster Jul 21 '25
I mean if they have a line and are already denying people they don't want/need celebs to bring in more.
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u/SkoolBoi19 Jul 21 '25
Depends on the celebrity…… I used Denzel as an example because I’m a big fan of his. But depending on the scene and ownership, they would let the right celeb in regardless of how long the line is. Think Studio 54; it’s still famous because of the celebrities that went there 50+ years ago
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u/FILTHBOT4000 Jul 21 '25
You also don't want popular celebs, and the free press that goes with them, going to a club competing with yours because you turned them away. It's very easy to lose your spot as the place to be in the club business.
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u/hertzsae Jul 21 '25
Usually VIP has empty spots. Getting big name celebs on a popular/crowded night keeps things busier on less popular/crowded nights.
It's a terrible business move to encourage celebs to go to your competitors by telling them that you're full without them.
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u/Intimidwalls1724 Jul 21 '25
Probably so but that doesn't mean you are entitled to it
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u/davebrose Jul 21 '25
If they were celebs they wouldn’t have had to wait in a line. Professional Rugby players have to wait in line as well in US. So what?
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u/denisvma Jul 21 '25
Im with you but in this case it’s a club. I will 100% treat a-celebs differently…that basically their business.
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u/lets_BOXHOT Jul 21 '25
Are they really celebs?
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u/voxpopper Jul 21 '25
I wonder how many people could identify them by name, including people who say they're WNBA fans. I'd say <1/10th of 1% of Americans and that's being generous.
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u/onewander Jul 21 '25
Shane Gillis had an amazing joke about this at the ESPYs: https://youtube.com/shorts/n0QieIbzsHQ?si=RIBhr4rq8Xkbzbag
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u/Tjengel Milwaukee Bucks Jul 21 '25
These aren't celebs these are blue collar workers lol
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u/CohibasAndScotch Jul 21 '25
I feel like nearly everyone in the WNBA is hell bent on getting the league the worst publicity possible. It seems like people want to like the WNBA now more than ever but the (vast majority of the) players/league are slamming the door.
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u/Downtown_Skill Jul 21 '25
Like I feel they see themselves as an extension of the NBA when really its an entirely different league. This is like a team from the national basketball league in australia trying to skip the line at a LA nite club or something.
"Yo, What are you talking about. We're the Tasmanian Jackjumpers, we ain't waiting in no line"
Delusional.
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u/BustedWing Jul 21 '25
Mate, the Jumpjackers get in EVERYWHERE.
I bet they have zero issues getting into the brewery tour at the Cascade brewery on a weekend, the hottest club in LA is a layup for them.
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u/Apprehensive_Cell812 Jul 21 '25
Did someone say jackjumpers?! Are they in town?
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u/Complete_Gene Oklahoma City Thunder Jul 21 '25
I heard we were talking Jackjumpers? Those blokes are golden!
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u/maglen69 Jul 21 '25
Like I feel they see themselves as an extension of the NBA when really its an entirely different league. This is like a team from the national basketball league in australia trying to skip the line at a LA nite club or something.
"Yo, What are you talking about. We're the Tasmanian Jackjumpers, we ain't waiting in no line"
Delusional.
The Savannah Bananas are more popular and noticed than the WNBA.
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u/itspinkynukka Jul 21 '25
It's not even Tasmanian. It's the Tasmania Jackjumpers. Even when trying to make the point, we don't know the team. That's how unpopular it is.
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u/alwaysmyfault Jul 21 '25
Most of them are so incredibly jealous of CC that they can't help themselves.
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u/Raoul_Duke9 Jul 21 '25
Meh even cc wearing the "pay us like the men" shirt was insane. My sister in christ - no team turns profits
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u/Daniiiiii Chelsea Jul 21 '25
Lose-Lose situation for her. She wears it in solidarity with the rest of the league, legitimacy of grievance aside, and she gets shit on.
If she doesn't wear it she will make headlines and even more enemies within the fraternity itself. Can't win.
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u/RTRC Jul 21 '25
CC did it because of the PR backlash that would result if she didn't. She bagged a 28 mil deal with Nike lol I think she's doing alright.
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u/theycallmefuRR Jul 21 '25
100% this. CC doesn't make the majority of her income from her WNBA contract. She's making millions in endorsements and the rest of the league doesn't. That's their biggest issue with her
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u/LaidToRest33 Jul 21 '25
It was "Pay Us What You Owe Us" not pay us like the Men. You are probably thinking of the US Women's National Soccer team who made that argument a few years back despite being offered the same contract as the Men but they turned it down in fa or or a different contract and then tried to back-track once they realized they would have made more money had they taken the same contract as the Men.
The WNBA players are starting the contract negotiations soon and the owners are currently trying to hide how much money they are making now that the WNBA has gained a lot of popularity because they want to pocket the profits and keep paying the ladies dirt. Very different situations.
They don't even get a cut of their own jersey sales which is ridiculous if you ask me.
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u/king_lloyd11 Jul 21 '25
They want the same revenue split as the men though, even if it’s not the same dollar amount. That would be a way more ridiculous ask, but the players of a league that hasn’t made a profit since its inception asking for more money/for the league to go deeper in the red to pay them more still doesn’t make sense, especially when the WNBA is set to make money for the first time in its history.
The game is growing and so is revenue. Their salaries will grow too as a result, from their current splits. I just don’t think the first year you make money is the time to ask 5x increases. The NBA had to grind it out to get a piece of the billions the league makes. I think people just feel that the WNBA is getting ahead of itself based on one decent year.
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u/13143 New England Patriots Jul 21 '25
The NBA and NBAPA have a 50/50 revenue split. The WNBA and WNBAPA have something like a 95/5 revenue split. The WNBA is about to sign a massive new TV deal, like $250 million. The WNBAPA want the financials shared and a bigger piece of that pie, neither of which the WNBA are currently open to.
The "Pay us what you owe us" kind of comes off wrong, but they have a legitimate gripe, and they're not just being delusional/greedy.
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u/GentlemenBehold Jul 21 '25
I think it just takes time for people to come to their senses. There was definitely some jealousy of Tiger Woods by fellow golfers at the start of his career. Then they saw the purse sizes and sponsorship deals going up and realized his popularity was good for all of them.
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u/kieranjackwilson Jul 21 '25
Or ragebait WNBA news gets more clicks so the majority of the news we see about the league is ragebait.
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u/MisterGoog Jul 21 '25
I would say that this is definitely like 90% of it. This really is an exceedingly obnoxious video, but I do feel like the amount of pearl clutching here is crazy considering like all the men sports league where some of the players are straight up abusive, drunk drivers, etc.
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u/Vvardenfells_Finest Jul 21 '25
Good eye, at first I thought Lamar Jackson dyed his hair pink.
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u/Scfbigb1 Kansas City Chiefs Jul 21 '25
D list celebs trying to flex is hard to watch.
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u/Beetin Jul 21 '25
Right? My old pediatrician makes more money than them, has a longer Wikipedia article and more publications (she worked on some cutting edge research and treatments for sick kids), and is probably more well known and beloved in our city than any wmba players.
Just because you are around famous people doesn't make you famous.
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u/ShermyTheCat Jul 21 '25
I love the idea that you're just roaming the Internet looking for excuses to hype up your pediatrician
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u/Ok_Afternoon_3084 Jul 21 '25
I've also got a job no one watches me do, can I come in?
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u/Earl_Squire Jul 21 '25
Did you have an All Star game over the weekend?
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u/Great_Hambino2022 Jul 21 '25
"We in the WNBA" isn’t the flex she thinks it is
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u/Secret_penguin- Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25
They didn’t even bring Caitlin with them of course they’re not getting in!
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u/thegreatwordwarrior Jul 21 '25
Didn’t she call it “the W” like anyone knows what she means lol
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u/Jdez954 Jul 21 '25
I’ve seen this “the W” about 50 times and thought they were talking about the hotel until I read your comment lol
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u/Tsikura Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25
There's probably many people waiting on line that makes more a year than these players.
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u/Direct-Speech Jul 21 '25
75% of the line makes more than them
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u/Tsikura Jul 21 '25
I don't know who they are as I don't watch a lot of WNBA games. If they were in they All-Star game, I'm giving them a slight benefit of the doubt that they might make a little more than average salary plus some kind of endorsement. From what I can see, none of these players are special. So yeah, 75% or maybe 95% is right.
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u/ltshaft15 Jul 21 '25
The one in the video, Courtney Williams, is currently making $180k. Thats good money but that's not "skip the line because you're a VIP" kind of money.
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u/MisterGoog Jul 21 '25
I’ve always thought the idea with VIP was because you’re famous people will flock to the club that night because of you being there
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u/DResq Jul 21 '25
The one with the pink hair talking was in the all-star game. She had done a 72 hour live stream during all-star weekend for her Twitch channel, "Stud Budz." She probably makes like $30k-$50k a month off her Twitch channel.
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u/Impossible-Shine4660 Jul 21 '25
She should have lead with being a twitch streamer then. That gets more attention than wnba player.
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u/Garconanokin Jul 21 '25
And many more people that would actually spend more there.
"It's like they're running a business or something!"
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u/voxpopper Jul 21 '25
Security dudes in Vegas, NYC, Miami etc. probably make more than the avg WNBA player if you include greasing of palms to get in.
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u/GreenSnakes_ Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25
WNBA players trying to skip a 100+ person line and saying “we’re in the WNBA, we shouldn’t be waiting” is peak entitlement. Hate to say it, but Caitlin Clark might be the only one with that kind of pull right now, and even she’d probably wait her turn.
Tough watch, honestly.
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u/TheNextBattalion Jul 21 '25
basically, they let you skip when it benefits them more for people to see you there, and the people still in line feel like it's worth waiting because you'll be in there when they get in. It's business
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u/DirtyRoller Jul 21 '25
That's on them for not having CC or Angel in the crew.
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u/Aclrian Jul 21 '25
Why are you forcing Angel Reese into this? 😂
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u/CharlieKellyKapowski Jul 21 '25
In the video she clearly says “we with Angel” so Angel is already in the club
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u/usetheforce_gaming Jul 21 '25
They’re probably the only 2 people the average person off the street would recognize from the WNBA.
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u/MasterUnlimited Jul 21 '25
Average person might be able to name CC. The “average person” probably can name a few, but pick zero out of a lineup.
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u/usetheforce_gaming Jul 21 '25
Angel Reese is pretty identifiable with her eye lashes, and she’s also been in commercials and had a McDonald’s partnership.
I don’t think it’s too far of a stretch some people would know who she was along with CC
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u/spondgbob Jul 21 '25
She also has Reese’s Puffs (which is arguably the best celebrity they’ve had on a box)
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u/DirtyRoller Jul 21 '25
I was just trying to think of WNBA players that I would recognize if I saw them in line at a club, and those are the only two I could think of. 😂
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u/EBITDAlife Jul 21 '25
Angel was the hosting a party at that club or making an appearance so that’s why she’s brought into this.
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u/identitycrisis56 Jul 21 '25
Literally the only named mention in the video that’s who they were trying to get in to see. Watch the video, it low keys helps when commenting.
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u/Doggleganger Jul 21 '25
Clark would totally be let in. It would boost the club for sure, everyone would love it. Great for business.
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u/69iamtheliquor69 Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25
Where did this sense of entitlement come from? Two years ago NO ONE was talking about the WNBA.
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u/SeriousMongoose2290 Jul 21 '25
Honestly, it might have always been this way but we were ignorant to it.
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u/Neither-Luck-9295 Jul 21 '25
Nah, it started with all the attention CC has brought in, and yes to a lesser extent, Angel too.
The sense of entitlement has gone to like 11.
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u/Worldly-Time-3201 Jul 21 '25
I have no idea why of all women’s sports out there they chose to force this one on the public.
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u/Taconnosseur Jul 21 '25
tomorrow's t-shirts:
LET US CUT IN LINE
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u/alexjaness Jul 21 '25
That's a little to much like asking, the shirt will say
"you owe it to us to let us cut in line."
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u/-random-name- Jul 21 '25
They probably also expected free cover and free bottle service seeing as they can't afford it.
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u/HooHooHooAreYou Jul 21 '25
I was excited about the WNBA for a minute, and Caitlin Clark is why. I was discovering more players in the women's game, and loved JuJu Watkins at USC. These entitled people and their jealousy/hate/pettiness is so ugly, I turned the WNBA off for years now. There's plenty of drama in the NBA, too, but they all kind of get they're in it together, and work collectively to enhance the brand.
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u/kinglittlenc Jul 21 '25
This is embarrassing, they were just asked to use the line like everyone else. Being in the W doesn't entitle you to celebrity treatment.
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u/PizzaJawn31 Jul 21 '25
Absolutely nobody knows who any of these people are other than Caitlin Clark
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u/AllHailNibbler Jul 21 '25
I thought using your privilege was frowned upon? I guess only when some people have privilege its not good.
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u/justsignmeupcuz Jul 21 '25
they are OWED guestlist ... it'll be on their tshirts next week "let us in for free"
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u/drummerboy2749 Jul 21 '25
About a decade ago, I was a doorman at a local brewery in Atlanta, my job was to simply check ID’s to prevent the brewery from losing their business / alcohol license.
Multiple players from the Atlanta Dream came in for some sort of private meeting or event and got upset with me because they had to show their ID at the door. They exhibited this EXACT behavior. One said “do you know who we are” to which I said “no, and you’re not getting in unless I see your ID”.
Not sure where this level of entitlement comes from but when I met/served names like A-Rod, Brian Jordan, or John Smoltz - none of them exhibited behavior like this.
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u/Bad_Prophet Jul 21 '25
This is sad, in a pathetic and delusional sort of way.
And this is why they'll never get paid "what they're worth", because they're not actually recognizable by anybody. Whether it's right or wrong, almost nobody cares about the WNBA, or women's sports, in general.
Pick any player from the men's All-Star game and he's walking into whatever club he wants, and the whole line will be taking pictures and asking for autographs as he walks by.
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u/t0p_n0tch Jul 21 '25
Fame is a much higher echelon than pro athletics for either gender. If I can’t recognize the centerfielder for the Yankees I sure as hell won’t recognize who these ladies are
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u/TheGobiasIndustries Baltimore Orioles Jul 21 '25
They're also playing in a league that makes no money and has been completely subsidized by the NBA since its inception. If they got paid what they're worth, they would be paying the NBA to exist.
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u/bundleofgrundle Jul 21 '25
I've never once heard it referred to as "the W". Yall sound like a bunch of fools
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u/JaeTheOne Jul 21 '25
I mean...didnt Shane Gillis low-key expose the truth about the WNBA with his joke about his friends wife?
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u/SandMan3914 Jul 21 '25
And then there's Keanu standing in line at a party for one of his movies with the rest of us
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u/Se7enCostanza10 Jul 21 '25
What did they expect lol a high school kid locked up a WNBA all star guard…
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u/Born-Media6436 Jul 21 '25
Wow. Just think of the zero people that were gonna buy them drinks. How disappointing.
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u/ElSalvo Jul 21 '25
I had to double check, but the ASG was in Indy. Now forgive me but Indy doesn't strike me as a nightclub town lol. Look, there's a line for a reason, the place was probably full.
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u/Stillwiththe Jul 21 '25
Have to be rich, famous, or pretty to skip the line. 0/3
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u/MagmaManOne Jul 21 '25
You’re not waiting in no line, you’re waiting in A line.
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u/ForestCityWRX Jul 21 '25
My entire life I’ve considered cyclists to be the most entitled group of people alive, but it might just change to WNBA players after this.
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u/Alone_Neighborhood22 Jul 21 '25
Umm…. Just curious… I don’t know the WNBA… but who’s the brunette in black with the long braid…
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u/arazamatazguy Jul 21 '25
The WNBA hadn't organized an after party?
That should be the headline.