2024 olympics - women's basketball

[Wingy]

I didn’t like Embiid and Ant’s crotch chopping, so wasn’t a fan of A’ja’s “That bitch.” response when asked about Kahleah’s play. Mostly the world is watching, kids are watching.

Like, if we’re talking WNBA final clinching and it’s midnight on the east coast, kinda whatever. It’s obviously not a prime time EST game. I don’t love having to explain it to my kid.

End of the world? Nah. But c’mon, show some awareness.

Maybe YOU should show some awareness - kids have access to the internet and see and hear much worse often. The world isn't a delicate place and never has been lol. 3rd graders in the 90s were doing the DX celly every day at recess.

Loved the attitude era. Id say things like this are a problem if they become more frequent. It’s fairly clear the type of business the NBA runs and it’s not of the Vince McMahon ilk.

Hell, I did it in college even; as friends played WWE / WCW video games. Aimed at each other in jest, good fun, talking smack with your buds. NBD in the right context. Dumb fun.

Just not a thing you want out in the open on the international stage portrayed by people who are undeservedly looked up to as role models due to the way athletes are celebrated. This societal thing isn’t any player’s fault, but it’s the reality.

[MrDollarBills]

Maybe YOU should show some awareness - kids have access to the internet and see and hear much worse often. The world isn't a delicate place and never has been lol. 3rd graders in the 90s were doing the DX celly every day at recess.

Loved the attitude era. Id say things like this are a problem if they become more frequent. It’s fairly clear the type of business the NBA runs and it’s not of the Vince McMahon ilk.

Hell, I did it in college even; as friends played WWE / WCW video games. Aimed at each other in jest, good fun, talking smack with your buds. NBD in the right context. Dumb fun.

Just not a thing you want out in the open on the international stage portrayed by people who are undeservedly looked up to as role models due to the way athletes are celebrated. This societal thing isn’t any player’s fault, but it’s the reality.

Yeah i think at some point ppl need to understand that there are impressionable eyes watching.

Over the last 8 years or so I feel like society in general has said f*ck it tbh.

[Doctor MJ]

I didn’t like Embiid and Ant’s crotch chopping, so wasn’t a fan of A’ja’s “That bitch.” response when asked about Kahleah’s play. Mostly the world is watching, kids are watching.

Like, if we’re talking WNBA final clinching and it’s midnight on the east coast, kinda whatever. It’s obviously not a prime time EST game. I don’t love having to explain it to my kid.

End of the world? Nah. But c’mon, show some awareness.

So this is another area where I'll chime in cautiously. Sensitive issue. Try to give sincere people some grace.

I'll say this personally though:

I have a problem with the crotch chopping. I don't have a problem with "that Bitch". Difference for me?

The latter is about praising her teammate in her own words. She might be wiser to express herself with other words given the charge of obscenity, but honestly all of that is just a social construct and I ain't here to police it.

The former is taunting the audience in a sexually offensive way...at the freaking Olympics.

If I'm the IOC, this is something I look to address going forward up front telling the national teams to tell their players that stuff like X is antithetical to what the Olympics is looking to represent.

This might seem strange to folks who just see this as one more place where people are playing basketball in competition, but the Olympics is supposed to be about something more than just competition - sport is a substitute for war after all - and as it loses this, it dissolves the whole ball of wax.

Plus on the player side, dude, you really want to be known internationally for that? Sometimes showing "class" is just about showing sense in realizing you're no longer a teenage boy.