![]() Tom Brady screamed at teammates and coaches and was viewed as scrappy. Larry Bird was the greatest trash talker of all time but was celebrated for his passion. When white players are aggressive, and talk trash, they are passionate and fiery. When Black players are aggressive, and talk trash, they are thugs and animals. This game, and other moments in the women's tournament, as great as it was, as magical as it was for LSU, also exposed some long, ugly stereotypes about Black people that refuse to die. Jackson tweeted to his nine million followers a spirited defense of Reese that can't be printed here. To show just how big a story this became, how it divided along racial lines, after a famous white former sports broadcaster called Reese a "(expletive) idiot," actor Samuel L. The situation seemed divided by race, with many Black people (not all) defending Reese, and many white people (not all) criticizing her. It's true that Reese escalated the trash talk by walking behind Clark while taunting her, the action still didn't come close to justifying the massive amount of vitriol aimed at her on social media. In the closing moment of the championship game, Reese did the same taunt and also pointed to her hand, signaling she was getting a championship ring. Clark is a skilled trash talker and used the John Cena "you can't see me" taunt multiple times throughout the tournament. It was in play throughout this tournament when it came to Caitlin Clark, one of the most talented and entertaining players in the history of college basketball. And she is correct about that double standard. To be clear, when Reese says "other people" she means white people. This was for the people that look like me." ![]() When other people do it, y'all don't say nothing. I'm too ghetto.' Y'all told me that all year. I don't fit the box that y'all want me to be in," she said postgame on Sunday night. Months later, after the championship game win on Sunday night, Reese doubled down, and justifiably added the explosive primordial molecule of race, in what was one of the finest moments of a remarkable tournament, and an example of Black fearlessness and strength.įINALLY! LSU-Iowa drama shows the women's game is generating petty arguments, just like the men But also, at pickup games anywhere in the country, everyone talks trash: Black, white, Latino, Asian, Vulcan, Klingon, everyone. Let's normalize women showing passion for the game instead of it being 'embarrassing.'"Īs someone who played a lot of basketball (badly) all across Baltimore while in high school, this is correct. If it was a boy y'all wouldn't be saying nun at all. I'm from Baltimore where you hoop outside and talk trash. "I don't fit the narrative and I'm OK with that. But I think that players around the league view that differently.In January LSU's Angel Reese tweeted something that would turn out to be almost prescient, and came into play months later when the Tigers would beat Iowa for the women's national championship. He’s not the first player or the last player to be a trash talker. Speaking to GIVEMESPORT, NBA writer Mark Medina said: “I don't think Dillon Brooks is respected really much at all around the NBA. What did Medina have to say on Dillon Brooks being respected by his peers? Since then, there has been a lot of debate on whether players around the league respect Dillon Brooks due to him making many ‘cheap-shot fouls’ and non-basketball plays. In Game 3 of the series between the Grizzlies and the Lakers, Brooks was ejected after picking up a flagrant 2 foul just 9 seconds into the second half, after appearing to punch the Lakers’ LeBron James in the groin area when going in for a steal in the backcourt. This remark came back around full circle as the Memphis Grizzlies bounced out of the playoffs in Game 6 of their series vs the #7 seed Los Angeles Lakers, in which Memphis lost 125-85 - a score margin of 40 points. ![]()
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