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Angel Reese is a national champion, not the villain

The LSU star deserves to be celebrated at the top of her game, not criticized as 'classless.'

Angel Reese has come under fire for displaying the same sportsmanship accepted from other players like Caitlin Clark. Credit: Justin Tafoya/NCAA Photos via Getty Images

It didn't begin with a hand gesture. Long before the closing seconds of the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship game, when Louisiana State University (LSU) star player Angel Reese raised the "you can’t see me" hand wave to Iowa player Caitlin Clark, sparking a torrent of rebuke on social media for her "poor" sportsmanship, anti-Black bubbles were already coming to the surface.

It began in the lead-up to LSU's Final Four contest with South Carolina, a team noted for its tough play. Clark, a highly decorated junior, the Naismith College and AP Player of the Year and this year's John R. Wooden Award winner, downed 41 points to achieve the NCAA Tournament's first 40-point triple-double and raise her team to the next round, thereby allowing her to burst onto the mainstream sports landscape. While her performance became a key story from the game, a post-game interview with South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley sparked controversy.

Asked by a reporter about her team's style of play, Staley responded, "Some of the people in the media, when you're gathering in public, you're saying things about our team and you're being heard. And it's being brought back to me, OK?" She continued, "We're not thugs. We're not monkeys. We're not street fighters. This team exemplifies how you need to approach basketball, on the court and off the court. And I do think that that's sometimes brought into the game, and it hurts."

Those words, a rebuke of the racist and misogynoir coverage of her team, words by the media that clearly posed her mostly Black team as unprofessional in comparison to the mostly white Iowa team, would roar back in stunning rapidity to Reese.

The furor met by Reese, mostly from white critics, such as Keith Olbermann(Opens in a new tab), is emblematic of the pervasive dehumanization of Black folks that was supposedly negated by white people assigning themselves reading lists during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement. It's a familiar image of gender inequality, white fragility, anti-Black rhetoric, and Black erasure played out on social media and in the White House.

Sports is a fraught road for women.

It’s almost laughably ironic that Reese's firebrand gesture originally found cultural prominence in the hands of a white man. For those who don't know, the "you can’t see me" wave was a calling card of WWE wrestler John Cena, who used Black aesthetics — a backwards baseball cap, long jean shorts, a literal chain necklace — and the language of hip-hop, to rise to superstardom. Since then, its usage has proliferated in popular culture, particularly in sports. While the NFL and NBA have rules that punish taunting, it's also an act that's inextricably part of the entertainment value integral to the game.

Taunting furthers narratives and rivalries between players and even fosters passion to either hate or cheer for said athlete on the part of the fans. It's a celebrated tradition of gamesmanship…unless you're a woman. The double standard inherent of being a woman athlete is as American as apple pie: The ballplayers in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (which ran from 1943-1954) were required to maintain feminine standards(Opens in a new tab) in public and in private(Opens in a new tab) by agreeing to wear skirts for uniforms, take etiquette classes, and never wear their hair short or smoke or drink in public.

Athletes in the WNBA were also expected to present themselves as reductively feminine. This led to lesbian ballplayers remaining closeted(Opens in a new tab) for fear of losing their careers and damaging the league. In American sports, if a woman decides to move outside of the strict gender normative boundaries imposed by men she is ridiculed, punished, erased, and debased.

It's a big reason why women's sports often receive less financial and municipal support and attention. WNBA players have discussed how the majority of the league being LGBTQ and Black has caused homophobia and misogynoir to impede the game's popularity. "And on top of that, that trope — that whole 'butch lesbian, I-hate-men' trope — is something that's been used for decades to get women not to play sports, to get women to stay home," WNBA player Imani McGee-Stafford told Andscape(Opens in a new tab).

Who is Angel Reese?

The depressed popularity of women's sports is why, before the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship game, very few of the people who criticized Reese on social media or across the nation knew who she was, even though her accomplishments this past season — as a Southeastern Conference (SEC) All-Defensive Team, First-team All-SEC, and unanimous First-team All-American selection — should have positioned her as an immediate star. It's a strange turn of events, then, to think about how the "you can't see me" gesture is what catapulted Reese toward being visible on the national stage.

In the face of misogynoir, however, she was not seen as a young, talented woman hailing from Maryland and positioned as a leader on her team — or a champion. She instead was dubbed a "Bayou Barbie(Opens in a new tab)," morphed into a classless thug who dared display her excitement, her jubilation, and confidence to a white woman. For many, seeing a white athlete, one hoisted as a national darling, defeated by a Black woman was horror enough. But to see a Black person take glee in her victory? That was a bridge too far. For her part, Clark told ESPN's Outside the Lines that Reese "should never be criticized for what she did. I competed, she competed."

The double standard has been apparent throughout the tournament: Clark, a noted trash talker, was lauded when she similarly used the "you can’t see me" hand gesture in a game against Louisville. Even Cena approved(Opens in a new tab).

It's also telling that Iowa's head coach Lisa Bluder was the one who likened playing South Carolina to going into a bar fight, the comments Staley criticized in her post-game interview. Rather than interrogate her own words, Bluder disregarded Staley’s criticism(Opens in a new tab). While some in the national media pursued the story, it didn’t stop Clark and Iowa heading into the championship game to ascend as the country's feel-good story. Nor was it taken into account when Reese's "you can’t see me" sent shockwaves across social media. Instead, many hung the albatross of victimhood around a mostly white Iowa team.

The White (fragility) House steps in.

In the immediate aftermath of Iowa's loss, white fragility also sprang from the White House when first lady Jill Biden offered the idea of inviting Iowa to the White House too. The practice of championship teams visiting the nation's capital can be traced back to 1963, when John F. Kennedy invited the Boston Celtics. It's an honor only reserved for winning squads. So when Biden threw out the proposal to Iowa, the losing team, it appeared to be another instance of white fragility leading to the erasure of Black achievement.

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Was Biden so enamored by the popularity of Clark that she mindlessly shirked tradition? That would be a generous interpretation of her proposition. Even if that were true, however, it doesn't negate the fact that she had Clark's feelings on her mind and not how her words might cause LSU to feel abandoned and erased.

While the first lady did walk back the comments, Reese wasn't buying it. "I don’t accept the apology because you said what you said… You can't go back on certain things that you say… They can have that spotlight. We'll go to the Obamas'. We'll go see Michelle. We'll see Barack," she told the I AM ATHLETE(Opens in a new tab) podcast.

Reese also didn't want LSU to make the customary visit to the White House. The school has said they will accept the invite(Opens in a new tab), which opens more questions: Shouldn't the institution stand behind one of its students when they've clearly been insulted? Is respectability politics, the fear of criticizing the first lady, really worth more than the emotional and mental well-being of their student-athlete?

Ultimately, Reese decided that, as team captain, she would accept the invitation after all, but she made it clear it was still a sore spot.

"In the beginning we were hurt — it was emotional because we know how hard we worked all year for everything," Reese told SportsCenter(Opens in a new tab). "You don't get that experience ever, and I know my team probably wants to go for sure and my coaches are supportive of that, so I'm going to do what's best for the team and we've decided we're going to go. I'm a team player. I'm going to do what's best for the team."

Maybe one of the lessons in all of this is a need for a separation of sports and state. The image of politicians inviting athletes to the White House, in a bid to confer their political approval in exchange for cultural cache, reeks of gladiatorial times, when the emperor bestowed their attention upon the person who recently laid their body on the line for their entertainment. It's a transaction that only allows the politician to profit; apart from a memory, the athlete receives little from it.

A proximity to greatness isn't solely a political desire either. We all like to associate ourselves with winners: from people posing for pictures with Oscar statuettes they didn’t win, to rabid celebrity fandoms, to fervent sport allegiances. Culturally we've made other people's victories a reflection of our national prestige, our morality, our self-righteousness, our self-worth, our racial pride. We’ve made their losses a mirror of our wounded pride too, our neglect and our deferred dreams.

For the athletes, particularly student-athletes, it ain't that deep. It's telling that Clark didn’t feel jilted by Reese's gesture, that Iowa wasn’t asking to visit the White House, that the only people offended by the outcome of the game were racist white people aghast by a blow to their white confidence.

It's worth returning to Staley's post-game press conference. "If you really knew them, if you really knew them, like you really want to know other players that represent this game, you would think differently. So don't judge us by the color of our skin. Judge us by how we approach the game," said the South Carolina coach.

Reese is still waiting to be judged on her own merits, on her approach to what sports should be: as not just there to build legacies, but to build character and lifelong bonds and friendships among teammates, to work diligently to achieve a singular goal, and to celebrate your victories while processing your defeats.

Reese is a national champion. It shouldn't feel like she's the only one who lost.

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  1. Reese's actions all came after the game was over. Looking at what she did through that lens Reese sought out a specific player on the team, (a) called her a vulgar name, (b) rubbed the loss her in her face, and (c) mocked the player's previous celebration. All 3 of these things Reese did as her first impulse upon winning a national championship instead of seeking her teammates out to celebrate or celebrating herself. These end of the game actions are unquestionably the very definition of poor sportsmanship.

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    1. Just another thug fron the 'hood !!!

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    2. if the other player did not have a problem with it then why do people who haven’t even ran since high school complaining? Why do y’all always get mad for others?

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    3. I have to agree. What she chose to do and where she chose to do it were, in my opinion, poor choices

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    4. one can never understand the words of ignorant adults. #RacismIsAPublicHealthCrisis

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    5. because these players are setting examples for younger players on how they should act...if my daughter ever acted like that on the court, she would have been punished...not only by me but her coach. She made the win about herself...not her team and then gloated about it in another players face and in National television....it shows poor sportsmanship....always be humble.

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    6. it’s weird people having issues with a black player who did it, not Cait who started it. Interesting though

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    7. spoken like a trump voter 🙇🏽‍♂️

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    8. says the guy that never won anything 😂

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    9. I didn't hear about the vulgar name

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    10. so when the other player originally did the hand to her opponent what did you say about her ?

      You seem to be all worked up by Ms Reese doing it to her 🤭

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    11. moving that goal post I see..

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    12. and the game wasn't exactly over

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    13. Even Clark isn't mad so what's your point?

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    14. yeah when it comes to black women our people will never hold them accountable for anything,it sucks but that's how it goes 🤷🏿‍♂️

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    15. no…it wasn’t right for either but on a National stage…smh. I would’ve been embarrassed and ashamed had my daughter done that. As a volleyball official we see a bit of this but it’s not as pervasive as other sports. We do try to keep a tight reign on frustrated players.

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    16. had the role been reversed in this match I would’ve felt the same way. I don’t care what color they are.

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    17. also… all the people watching saw Angel… not Caitlin make the unsporting gestures.

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    18. perfectly said

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    19. just like everyone saw Caitlyn do it to South Carolina. Next!

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  2. Deserves? Since when does anyone deserve anything? Actions have consequences. I’m neither for nor against her. I didn’t care for her celebration, but who cares how I, you, or anyone feels. Quit making a big deal out of your opinion on other people and from the other side, don’t be surprised when people have opinions about your questionable actions.

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  3. "While the NFL and NBA have rules that punish taunting..."

    How can you even defend what she did after writing that?

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  4. That depends. If classless is like priceless then she transcends all classes. I think she does that.

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    1. https://giphy.com/gifs/marchmadness-iowa-hawkeyes-wfinalfour-aBoA4dHrdYIt70IwAR

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    2. then again, that very same statement could be made about an outhouse.

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  5. Might be a good ball player, but lacks sportsmanship and character.

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    1. both did the same, black girl gets called every name in the book.

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    2. and humility too. Also not gracious!!

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    3. wow you know her so well 😂

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  6. This is why Hockey fighting rules should be implemented in all sports. She's part of a National Champion TEAM. Congratulate her! She and her team done good.

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  7. This is only an issue because the media keeps making money on a non-issue.

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    1. Was it an issue when a white woman from Iowa did it?

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  8. This story is so over

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    1. definitely the media keeps running with issues and keeping it on the forefront. This article attempts to lump multiple issues into one. Reese's poor behavior at the end of the game is not an equal discussion with why Iowa was invited to the White House or Reese's comments about that.

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  9. She showed us who she really is

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    1. https://giphy.com/gifs/marchmadness-iowa-hawkeyes-wfinalfour-aBoA4dHrdYIt70IwAR

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    2. Yes she did, a competitive winner!

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    3. is that good or bad?

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  10. So it's fine when Clark, a white woman, makes the same gesture during a previous game but not when Reese does the exact same thing. Got it.

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    1. Its the way it was done.

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    2. as always 🙄

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    3. wasn't following her around the court and rubbing it in her face, are you blind 😳😳😳

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    4. did it wasn't in players face, when she did it was non stop and circling Clark at end of game. Was just classless period.

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    5. yep that’s how it is in 2023

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    6. had never done it in a previous game would Reese have done it? I doubt it. I don't like to bring race into issues but how can you not in this case? No one said anything negative when Clark did it to Louisville but Reese gets hammered for the same thing. Good for her for standing her ground and not apologizing and calling out Jill Biden. If LSU would have lost, they would not have been invited to the WH. And it wasn't a great game. LSU hammered Iowa, they were never in the game.

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  11. Live and learn humility.

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    1. the coach should teach sportsmanship

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    2. She is an adult. Her coaches as she grew up should have. She must now take responsibility for her actions.

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  12. The 2 aren’t incompatible. She can be a classless national champion. Her performance and her attitude are 2 different aspects.

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  13. Her TEAM performed at the top of the game. Individually she has been classless.

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    1. oh boohoo. it's ok when a white girl does it.

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  14. This all day. Great article.

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  15. Mashable trying to be relevant again

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  16. She had her moments. People had their thoughts and already moved on to the next news cycle. We'll see how she does when her team loses and opposing players does the same to her. Just silly things.

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  17. She had a moment of unsportsmanlike behavior. Nothing more nothing less. She’s not a villain but she also showed that she has maturing to do. It’s bizarre that we are both making it out to be a bigger deal than it is yet simultaneously trying to excuse the inexcusable.

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  18. The two athletes are over it. Why can’t you guys let it go!
    She is a champion and your criticism and judgement don’t mean a thing to her. So zip it!

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  19. She is a villain!!! No respect!! But congrats

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  20. Let us all face it.The world ( including sports) has drastically changed in the last few decades. When I was growing up in the 1950's & 60's ,you barely ever saw this stuff,and when you did it was dealt with swiftly . Her actions are just by-products of how our students are now allowed to act. Change is needed to get this Nation ( & the world ''back on track'')

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    1. bet you did love the 50 and 60s how mighty white of you sir

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  21. She never was a villain!!! she is a great basketball 🏀 player the media turned this into a ghetto vs the burbs game. When people finally see that there will be a lot less hate in this world 🌎

    Keep on shining Angel Reese 🙏💯💪

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    1. Drop the mic, and walk. Thank you!

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  22. Young kid, young mind, emotional immaturity, national stage, forever a villain, got that ring though, they’ll never take that away

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  23. Actions speak louder then words. She needs to be humbled

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    1. oh look! another white guy critizing her!

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    2. I'm sure you voted for sleepy Joe too

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  24. I guess she can turn pro in the WNBA. That’ll go well

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  25. Being a Champion also means acting like a Champion

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  26. It’s only college basketball. Let’s see what happens when they go Pro and face the best of the best.

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  27. ANGEL Reese is a perfect Case in Classless.

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  28. The word classless is a used a lot in this thread. But do y'all even think about what that word means. The instances "classy" is usually used for has to do with social class and girly, elegant, gracefulness. None of those things have $*** to do with basketball. If the only thing you can say about a basketball player is that they are "classless", then I think that says more about you than it does about them. Social class and feminity have nothing to do with basketball. Perhaps instead we say she's passionate!

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  29. Did she win all by herself, or did she play on a team ?

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  30. A true champion in my opinion, shows grace and mercy to her opponent when she defeats them !

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  31. Hey, she got people talking about women’s basketball. That in itself is a win for the sport.

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    1. that would be Clark too

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    2. nothing like a rivalry to get people talking!

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  32. If she had just kept quiet and played ball, she would now be recognized as a good player on a good, championship team. She, by championing race, identity and inclusion over athletics, cast herself into a classless, unenviable place.

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    1. her too?
      https://giphy.com/gifs/marchmadness-iowa-hawkeyes-wfinalfour-aBoA4dHrdYIt70IwAR

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    2. kept quiet after the game and only congratulated LSU. She may have trashed talked, no big deal, that's sports, but she never resorted to race and identity in any remarks after the game. In her respect, temperance, and judiciousness, she had class. Bringing up 'the ghetto' the 'hood' and blackness - the most highly political meme of the decade - Reese showed herself a Warhol 3 minute of fame wannabee, television, Oprah, and all the rest here I come.

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    3. so is it "classless" only when nonwhite people bring up race?

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    4. your envy of her is palpable 🤣

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    5. kept quiet after the game? You mean the won she lost the title? She used the same invisible sign!! Oh and how about Jill Biden inviting the LOSING team to the White House too??!!! WTF. Take your white hood off come up for air and see this for what it is!!

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    6. dude, she's white!!!!

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  33. We are still talking about her 15 points and 10 assists?! I mean there were three others that had 20 + points that game! No mention huh!!

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    1. yeah but y'all didn't attack the rest of her team y'all went after lying on the girl saying she was following the girl around lol y'all act like she had a gun and was ready to go after Clarke

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    2. where did I mention anything about silly little gestures?! I am referring to Carson having 22,morris having 21 and Williams having 20 points?! She didn’t do anything special buddy! These girls need their time in the spotlight.

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    3. Some people just cant handle the truth. Awwwww ok!

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  34. She can be celebrated for winning and judged for her conduct after winning at the same time.

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  35. Consequences 👍 yep

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  36. If you want to be treated like a champion, act like a champion.

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    1. kreiser my role model

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    2. Role model for what? People would look at her differently if she had not done that! Why stoop to that level? Rise above it. That belongs on the street not on the court.

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    3. Yes, Tom is the best.

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  38. Women's basketball..... Does anyone actually care?

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  39. You Rock Angel keep it up!

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  40. Agreed she is a champion

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  41. Poor sportsmanship

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  42. Classless champion.

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  43. She should act deserving. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

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  44. She will end up on a beer can now.🙄 Being that she is now a Real American Hero.🤮

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  45. If all the hand gesturing had been during the Men’s Final it wouldn’t have been news at all!

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    1. Think NFL taking a knee.

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    2. I disagree. I have been trying to remember when an match ended with the winning side taunted the other side. I am sure there are examples that are slipping my mind, but they are not coming to me. Even the Pistons walking off the court without shaking the Bulls players' hands all those years ago is still brought up and discussed. What Reese did was infinitely more worse than that.

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    3. I think following her and the length of the taunting is what made this a story.

      There's a difference between steph curry hitting the night night or flashing the ring at everyone in the crowd versus say Taylor Lewan going straight after Josh Norman on the sideline and taunting and personally disrespecting him which deserved and got a response from Norman. This could've fallen in the latter category.

      On the one hand, it may be overblown, on the other hand there were a few confrontations and an altercation after games in the women's tournament and that's why this level of extended, personal taunting needs to be taken out the game.

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    4. Apparently the Celtics did the same thing to the Pistons in 1988 East Conference Finals, but nobody remembers that. I only learned about it when watching Last Dance. In both examples, it was the losing team walking off.

      Reggie Miller taunting Spike Lee is probably the closest thing I can think of from the winning side. Obviously Spike Lee isn't (directly) on the team, though he probably acted like he was 😉

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    5. I absolutely agree with that.

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    6. It's not just the hand gesture it was the repeated hand gestures, the middle finger, playing the racist card herself and...all of that takes away from her incredible basketball skills...she does it to herself and to her team and to the sport.

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    7. It SHOULD be news though. Poor sportsmanship should not be tolerated in the men's final either.

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    8. it not during the game that’s the issue. It’s after she won the championship. She is a kid and did something dumb. She can spin it how ever she wants but it demonstrates a nastiness that has become prevalent in society. It certainly wasn’t classy.

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  46. poor sportsmanship is nothing to be proud of;

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  47. Classless is putting it mildly... 😂😂😂

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    1. look at you calling someone classless 😂 😂

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    2. Again, classless is putting it mildly...

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    3. Says the classic guy 😂

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  49. I never see anything about the team it’s all about her. The team won the game, she should take a rest.

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    1. haha she is the victim only is happening in USA!just because of the division of politics! Sad but true!

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  50. She’s not a villain. But, she might say and do anything for attention. Actually, I just wish the media would leave her alone. She did not look so classy in that championship game. However, she’s young. Let’s give her some space. She might redeem herself next year.

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  51. Ok…..enough is enough move on

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  52. In a world of cancle

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  53. If she doesn’t want to be treated as classless, she should have acted with sone class in the handshake line. Simple truth.

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  54. Caitlin Clark was a tweener. Once Angel Reese outheeled her, the rare double turn occurred. Angel isn’t classless, she’s just a bad heel. If you know you’re going to do stuff that will get you heat, you gotta own it.

    It’s like Bret Hart vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin from Wrestlemania 13 but Angel is the woe is me character that breaks bad and Caitlin becomes a resilient star.

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  55. You can be both, a villain and a champion. Only one sets a good example for our kids

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  56. Her taunt and classless behavior was witnessed by all. Talent means nothing without grace.

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  57. Maybe she can be improving her 1.6 GPA now that basketball is over.

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    1. 4.0 gpa won’t give her the kind of $$$ she is already getting

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    2. which will last maybe another year. Then what? Oh a talk show where she stalks and baits the audience. Yea some will watch the crap show. A good education might teach her how to be self sufficient person.

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    3. I’m a college counselor. I know PLENTY that have a good education and do not have any morals. Look at past and present government! Nice role models! Let all go to twitter…says the role model president.

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    4. I didn’t say morals, self sufficient was my point. She is being hosted by LSU now. Afterward she is going to learn some life lessons. She won’t have a large audience for this bull!

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  58. How much of this is based on her being black and the star of Iowa being white?

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  59. Does this even need to be said? She’s literally a champion. Looks like clickbait and an opportunity for haters to do what they do best.

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  60. When a player directly taunts an opposing player it is a technical foul, and when it is overlooked?? It is more than being classless!! 🇺🇸 We need to be better than this!!

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  61. who is that again?

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    1. the girl who sent Iowa home and got people in their feelings

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    2. Can I ask you red blooded American who is calling her classless, is there any white players that make your list of classiness list?

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    3. never heard Who is iowa? anyway not important for me.

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  62. Always the victim.. 😋

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  63. They play the race card to justify poor behavior! 🙄 The truth is our society has lowered its moral standards which is reflected in our accepted mis behavior. It has nothing to do with the color of her skin.

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  64. I still can’t believe this was actually a news item that became an actual discussion. Still can’t figure out what the issue was 🤷‍♂️

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    1. the taunting after the game ending buzzer

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    2. you know... a certain group got beat and then taunted by another group. A certain groups meltdown queens are at it again.

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    3. it’s beyond pathetic. Pathetic doesn’t do Justice as to how pathetic it truly is.

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  65. Tired of all of this. Stop trying to tell people how to think and act. Move on.

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  66. The only people criticising her seem to be whyte. Wonder why that is... 🤔

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    1. yes why can’t ALL people look at it in terms of facts. Duh it’s not Blk or Wht. And you are aware this is her timing and continued baiting. Duh LSU won (this year). 😝

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  67. You can be at the top of your game and still be classless. Anyone Iverson did it for years.

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    1. Iverson has nothing to do with this. Only you & people being racially biased toward Reese because you can't stand the fact that a Black woman & her tesm beat a white team & are the champs are the classless people making it about race🏀😮🙄😡

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    2. first of all I'm a POC. Second of all who said anything about race? Iverson was a God on the court and literally choked a guy. Thus proving a person can be at the top of their game and be classless at the same time. Those are not mutally exclusive.

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