Retired WNBA player says she was bullied by her bull dyke peers because she was straight...

[blackrain]

She said other players were also jealous of her because of her popularity.

So now people were hating on her because she was popular? I heard on the radio today too she also has a book comnig out...She slowly letting the truth for her reasons for saying this behind this seep out

 

[700]

98% of WNBA women gay? Damn, so what only like 4 bitches in the whole league are straight?

All bs aside, that number seems high. I doubt its that.

Bruh have you seen them bitches

I'd say 99

 

[jono]

She said other players were also jealous of her because of her popularity.

So now people were hating on her because she was popular? I heard on the radio today too she also has a book comnig out...She slowly letting the truth for her reasons for saying this behind this seep out

This definitely has more to do with the book than anything.

Sex sells, folks only talk about the WNBA when its about lesbians.

 

[LordZuko]

Isn't this a cheap seats topic?

 

[soul rattler]

Now watch the gay community try to bury this bitch

Effectively proving her point.

 

[blakfyahking]

sounds like the plot of Players Club

SMH I was in love with yellabone shorty from this movie

we could've been smashing Lisa Raye together :'(

 

[anduin]

Them butch dikes are the worst & throw more salt than anybody. I remember it was this butch dike that looked like R-Truth that was hating & tried to throw salt on me. I was about to leave her knocked out on the side of the curb somewhere

And that's when you roast them like you would anyone else, its not a woman you'll ever try to get anything going with anyways.

 

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[twizza 77]

Let Wiggins tell it, the locker room was lesbian porn spot.

 

[atribecalledgabi]

I'm not gon try to downplay her experience...if that's what she went through then that's what she went through and it needs to be addressed....but it did sound like she was cherry picking and saying what she knew would grab headlines

 

[Neophyte Wolfgang]

I believe it. The high school girls basketball team I went to were all dykes. Getting in in the locker rooms were the rumors. Truth is they gave off the lesbian vibe. A lot of them were dating females about 90 percent of them, so it has merit IMO

 

[ThaNubianGod]

Lisa Leslie got heat for same the same thing like 5 years ago.http://thestir.cafemom.com/good_news/127930/lisa_leslie_should_keep_her

 

[Idiopathic Joker]

98% is gay.

12 teams with 12 roster spots.

This bitch said she was 1 of 3 who wasn't gay lol

 

[CashmoneyDux]

98%?! Then the wnba logo should be changed to a broad eating another broads pussy lol

Shit they might get more viewers if they do this

 

[deadeye]

Bullfrogs were mad they couldn't turn her out.

Won't hear the LGBT or any of their supporters say anything about this.

Aside from all that, considering the low attendance, there really isn't any reason for the WNBA to even exist.

Best example of political correctness at it's worst.

Nobody wants to see a bunch of rough looking women dribbling up and down the court.

Not enough interest to justify having a league.

Don't understand why the NBA is wasting so much money trying to make it seem like people really care about this shit.

They'd be better off focusing their money on the D-League and siphoning talent from the NCAA.

For some reason, they act like they don't wanna do that though.

Doesn't make sense when you think about it.

 

[deadeye]

Also, lol @ the tags.

 

[deadeye]

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/highlight/candice-wiggins-thinks-98-percent-of-wnba-players-are-gay-says-she-was-bullied-for-being-straight

Los Angeles Sparks forward and players' union president Nneka Ogwumike told VICE Sports in a statement: "Our union is only as strong as our loyalty to and support for one another. What is key to that loyalty and support is our commitment to diversity and inclusion. As a union, we should and we will continue to celebrate the diversity that makes us special and lead by example. We must respect the rights of those we don't agree with when they speak their mind. Whether one agrees or disagrees with the comments made recently by a former player or whether one has seen or experienced anything like what she has described, anything that impacts an inclusive culture should be taken seriously."

lol

WTF is she really saying?

All that jibberish, but not a word about those bulldykes bullying that girl.

Can't say I'm surprised, but why say anything at all if you're not even gonna acknowledge what she went through?

@desertrain10

Explain this shit.

 

[deadeye]

98% of WNBA women gay? Damn, so what only like 4 bitches in the whole league are straight?

All bs aside, that number seems high. I doubt its that.

There is no data on the number of gay women in the WNBA, and some commentaries about the story questioned Wiggins’ “98 percent” number. She said Tuesday that she used that figure more to be illustrative than factual.

 

[deadeye]

98%?! Then the wnba logo should be changed to a broad eating another broads pussy lol

 

[deadeye]

http://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/article/Tara-VanDerveer-defends-WNBA-from-Candice-10952346.php

Tara VanDerveer defends WNBA from Candice Wiggins’ allegations

Tara VanDerveer said she doesn’t know what former Stanford guard Candice Wiggins went through in the WNBA, but the Cardinal women’s head coach defended the league from Wiggins’ sharp criticism.

Wiggins, a four-time All-American for the Cardinal (2004-08), said in an interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune, which The Chronicle printed Tuesday, that she was bullied during her eight-year WNBA career because she is heterosexual.

Wiggins said the culture in the WNBA is “very, very harmful” and that she was harassed from the time she was drafted by the Minnesota Lynx in 2008. “I would say 98 percent of the women in the WNBA are gay women,” she said.

She said other players were also jealous of her because of her popularity.

“People were deliberately trying to hurt me all of the time. I had never been called the b-word so many times in my life than I was in my rookie season. I’d never been thrown to the ground so much. The message was: ‘We want you to know we don’t like you.’”

VanDerveer said she “loved coaching Candice,” Stanford’s second all-time leading scorer.

“I don’t know what her experience was with the WNBA. What I know about the WNBA, under (WNBA President) Lisa Borders and (NBA Commissioner) Adam Silver, is that an inclusive, supportive workplace is really high on their agenda.

“It’s unfortunate that someone would feel that way. I just think they work really hard to have a great environment.”

Efforts to reach Wiggins were unsuccessful. In the Union-Tribune interview, she depicted the WNBA as a “survival league” that that still struggles for attention and legitimacy after 20 years of existence.

“I don’t know why someone would take the shots,” VanDerveer said. “The WNBA is a young league. It’s doing really well. It’s what we’ve experienced in women’s sports. ... Women’s basketball is growing, but we still have a ways to go. We know this. It’s still a great game.”

Referring to Wiggins’ contention that 98 percent of WNBA players are gay, she said, “I don’t know that math was ever Candice’s strength. That to me sounds homophobic and negative.”

In a follow-up interview with the Union-Tribune on Tuesday, Wiggins said she used the 98 percent figure because “it felt that way to me” rather than as a statistical fact.

She also said there was nothing in the earlier interview she would take back. Although there was ample criticism of her by other WNBA players and ex-players on Twitter and other social media, she said she received positive reactions from people close to her and private thanks from other players who she said had similar experiences.

VanDerveer said she hasn’t talked with Wiggins lately. Wiggins, 30, announced her retirement in March. Besides helping Minnesota to the championship in 2011, she also played for the Tulsa Shock, Los Angeles Sparks and New York Liberty.

VanDerveer also was disappointed that Wiggins’ remarks were given such extensive media play but Nneka Ogwumike, another Stanford alum, was given much less coverage for her MVP season in 2016 and her game-winning shot for the Sparks in the championship game.

Though the WNBA has not issued a response to Wiggins’ criticism, several players vigorously defended the league.

DeLisha Milton-Jones, an assistant coach at Pepperdine who won two WNBA titles and appeared in more games than any player in league history, said her experience in the league was a “complete contradiction of what’s been stated by Candice.”

She told espnW.com, “The WNBA has allowed many of us to live a dream. I pray that Candice does find peace with her life and is able to move forward without devaluing or diminishing what’s been priceless to so many others in the league.”

Chicago center Imani Boyette, a WNBA rookie last season, wrote in a blog addressed to Wiggins, “There is literally a woman from every walk of life in the league, which is why I love it so much. I have never experienced the bullying you spoke about, and I hope no one else ever does.”

San Antonio forward Monique Currie wrote in a blog that in her 11 seasons in the WNBA she has not experienced or witnessed the bullying that Wiggins described.

“Wiggins needs to check her privilege at the door, and not group her very unfortunate personal experiences on an entire group of women,” Currie wrote.

Fucked up that her old coach is speaking out against her.

But I can't really take her seriously because she never played in the league and is just getting second-hand information from people who have no vested interest in supporting Wiggins' claims.

VanDerveer said she “loved coaching Candice,” Stanford’s second all-time leading scorer.

“I don’t know what her experience was with the WNBA. What I know about the WNBA, under (WNBA President) Lisa Borders and (NBA Commissioner) Adam Silver, is that an inclusive, supportive workplace is really high on their agenda.

Yeah, talking to the heads of the WNBA and NBA is really gonna give her an objective view of what's really going on in the league.