Watch Jason Whitlock of Blaze TV’s Fearless call out the WNBA for being the ‘worst-run league in the history of American sports’ after Sunday night’s highly controversial series-clinching Game 5 saw the New York Liberty beat the Minnesota Lynx in overtime.
Check out the segment above as Whitlock rips the WNBA for the ‘rigged embarrassment’ late in regulation that robbed the Lynx of a title, and details how the league took a massive step back by not only using negligent officiating to manipulate the final score of a title game, but showcased an laughably sloppy and inept brand of basketball to one of its biggest national audiences.
Jason Whitlock: “I watched the series-deciding Game 5 of the WNBA Finals last night, and I’m glad I did because it says A LOT about what’s going on in the sports world. It was an embarrassment for the WNBA last night. It was proof that this league is so heavily dependent on Caitlin Clark. It’s proof that these games are manipulated. The WNBA and sports now are so into narrative, so anti-merit, so into ‘what’s the best story for the league?’, that they went out of their way and did everything in their power to make sure ‘THE NEW YORK LIBERTY WON THEIR FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP IN THE 27-YEAR HISTORY OF THE WNBA!’... They made some officiating late in that game that Tim Donaghy has to be somewhere just laughing his rear end off like ‘I thought the Sacramento Kings/Lakers series from years ago was rigged, did you watch THIS??’
This is what happens when they destroy merit across the board. This whole ‘D.E.I.’ mentality that is pervasive throughout American institutions -- everybody is trying to mimic DEI. So what is DEI? Obviously, it’s ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’, obviously it favors people’s sexuality, skin color, and all this other stuff, but what it really is is the destruction of merit, and a few people at the top getting to decide who does have success and who doesn't have success. If you build a society without merit where a few little elites get to decide who does have success and who doesn't have success, what you end up with is what happened at the end of this WNBA Finals series where the power masters, and the power brokers running the league -- ‘HEY, WE NEED THE NEW YORK LIBERTY TO WIN THIS GAME’... And it ain’t just me, NBA players... LeBron James, Damian Lillard, Isaiah Thomas – these guys were all tweeting about this in real time like ‘HOLY, COW, LOOK AT THIS OFFICIATING! THE MINNESOTA LYNX GOT ABSOLUTELY SCREWED!’
This woman [Brenna Stewart] took six steps before putting the basketball on the floor on this shot where they called the foul, and she sunk two free throws to send the game into overtime. She didn’t get touched, and if there was any contact, she initiated it. She took six steps! The worst part of this is they went to replay because Minnesota rightfully challenged the foul call. They certainly could have overturned the foul call.
Another thing that you’re perhaps missing is just how awful this game was. It was BAD product. Sabrina Ionescu, who complained about making the Second-Team All-WNBA team after Game 3 -- took a little subtle shot at Caitlin Clark -- went 1/19 from the field. That’s really hard to do. In the last two games she shot 6/34 from the field. Breanna Stewart went 4/15 from the field. These people said ‘Hey, Angel Reese, hold my beer! You think YOU can’t play offense? Watch what we do in Game 5!’... The team that won shot 30% from the field, 2/23 from three-point range, and won the game because they were sent to the free throw line 25 times and the Minnesota Lynx shot 8 free throws. Cheryl Reeve, the coach of the Minnesota Lynx, had every right to be irate. She flat-out said ‘this was stolen from us.’ Hats off to you, lady, because you’re 100% right.
They couldn’t score, they were literally exhausted. They couldn’t handle a 5-game series. And they’re expanding to a 7-game series next year. No one wants to see that. They need to thank God there was a Sunday Night Football and Major League Baseball playoff game, and that few people stuck through this or watched it. If people had watched this, it’s like ‘HOLY COW, WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE DOING WITHOUT CAITLIN CLARK??’
They dump on their meal ticket, and THIS is the product that they put out? The one woman that’s worth watching, they take a dump on her, and then they put THIS product out? And now they’re talking about more teams coming to the league?? There are 12 teams, 12 players on each team... There is not 144 players to fill up the rosters they have now. That was a brutal, brutal game, and they’re expanding?? These women were exhausted. The 5-game series wore them out, and they’re going to seven. They don’t have the talent to fill up the teams right now, and the quality of play isn’t good enough.
This is the worst-run sports league in the history of America. They get one gift, Caitlin Clark, and the entire league for the most part HATES Caitlin Clark, tries to diminish Caitlin Clark, tries to showcase all of these other women that people aren’t interested in, then wants to take a dump on Caitlin Clark fans and call them all ‘racist.’ This is the worst-run league in the history of American sports. Then they rig the Finals to make sure the New York Liberty can win, and the two best players on the Liberty played like hot garbage in Game 4 and Game 5. Everyone’s eyes were bleeding after that game and Holly Rowe comes on camera and calls it a ‘beautiful game of basketball.’ 67-62 in overtime, winning team shoots 30% from the field, there’s more turnovers than made baskets in the overtime, the two best players from the winning team – one is 4/15 from the field, the other is 1/19 from the field... I know Holly Rowe has got a job to do, but I would have been embarrassed if I was Sabrina Ionescu or Brenna Stewart.”
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