Right telling her she didn’t do enough to prevent this is not necessary. It’s not that big of a deal either. It seems rather obvious. It is her choice to do what she pleases and she chose to have a child.

In this job you know that you won’t be able to help your team for a year. You know that could have consequences for your career just like missing a season with an injury would.

You don’t choose to get injured but you can choose to have a kid. It’s cold but as a woman in this setting you have to be prepared to have your commitment questioned.

Your family should be more important than your job. However in this competitive of a career you have to realize there are other people willing to make sacrifices that you are not.

There isn’t anything wrong with either choice but it is a choice she made. It seems she just didn’t expect these consequences and now she’s lashing out.

Unprofessional Compared to whom? The male athletes that get to abuse their partners with ZERO accountability ?

You’re insufferable and wrong. I’m not going to argue with someone who keeps making shit up.

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Yeah, and I really enjoy it. Admittedly it does help that my team is one of the best all time and had one of the greatest female athletes of all time for 20 years.

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This sub is way too political. Just like almost all of the major sports are. It's turning me off of these sports and pushing me happily towards UFC, who generally doesn't engage in this stuff. It's gone from "is taking a knee OK or not" to sociopolitical/racey stuff being brought into damn near every game I watch. That's just not what I watch sports for. Crazy, I know...

Pretty much this. Assuming she didn’t know she was pregnant, the Aces still signed her with the intention of her competing as the player they thought they were getting for two seasons.

After their signing, they came to the conclusion that she wasn’t this player and didn’t take the precautions they would have liked her to to ensure this. To me the most crude thing is them telling her she didn’t do anything to prevent getting pregnant, but that’s not exactly illegal.

End of the day, you have an athlete who thinks they’re more ready than the team thinks they are, and then they traded her for a different player. She’s unhappy because her pregnancy played a role in this, but that’s business.

Air balls don’t happen all the time in the NBA and certainly way less then the WNBA. Anyone who says otherwise doesn’t watch basketball on any level.

The league is subsidized and ultimately comes from taxpayers dollars. They very simply don’t sell tickets, cause sadly it’s not an exciting sport to watch. No way around that really.

Your coming off as …well….you know….

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> Might as well go to the conservative sub and ask if anyone even likes AOC.

That is not at all an apt comparison. /r/sports leans pretty damn far left. It's possible to go lefter, but not by too much. This is by no means a "conservative sub". And "watching the WNBA" equating to liking AOC is curious as well. If you're solely making an unrelated analogy, then great, no problem. But if this is kinda how you equate things in your head, I def find that interesting.

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How do you shit on women in this story? There is the irony of pregnancy being bad for a a women-only business just like it's bad for any other business, coming off of decades of "this is because of men!". That's not shitting on women at all. That's appreciation of irony.

Pregnancy, child-rearing, etc being "bad for business" is something that we all have to wrestle with together. Without sexism, to the extent possible. We all benefit from children, so let's all figure it out without "it's bad because of men" or the vice versa.

Negatory. I clearly stated such. But STILL doesn’t explain your high schoolish response.

It makes sense to question these things. If you don’t want to get criticized or questioned professional sports is not the job for you. People question these things in their employees all the time. Sometimes it’s warranted sometimes it’s not.

She is a role player. She averaged 1 point and rebound per game in the WNBA finals. Of course I had no idea who she was until now but it took me all of 10 seconds to realize she is not a star.

As a role player you aren’t going to get treated like a star player. If you can’t play it makes sense to trade you to a team that is on a different timeline of being competitive, for a player that can help you now.

Do you think we ever would have heard these complaints had she not been traded?

I think fewer people would watch if all the women on the court were pregnant. But those who liked it would really like it...

You win the gold in mental gymnastics, incel.

Cause it’s clear your responses are rooted in misogyny and not valid criticisms of the sport

The most severe, yet still not unethical allegation is them asking her if this was planned, and then telling her she should have been proactive about not getting pregnant. That to me is outside the bounds of what an organization should really say.

Regarding some of the other things, like them saying she didn’t look like she would be on the verge of returning based on workout… that’s a criticism and/or statement that they are absolutely within their rights to say.

Also loved how your response to them not really playing basketball …instead was a comment on toys. My guy lol

Air balls happen in the NBA all the time. Just say you don’t watch basketball and move on.

Also their demand for more money is wanting a bigger % of the revenue. WNBA players get a much smaller percentage of revenue the league brings in compared to the portion NBA players get.

You’re coming off as a moron

Yep. Most jobs don’t exactly have the risk of you having to relocate out of nowhere. This is simply part of the business.

They do understand. WNBA employees getting pregnant is bad for the WNBA, just like it is for every other business. The fact that it's a women's league doesn't change that. They're already struggling financially. Personally I love the irony here. Maybe men and patriarchy aren't the problem. Maybe reality is, and we all need to figure out how to navigate it together...or maybe it's just me.

Bro ik, was just asking since I saw a lot of downvoted comments