Highly unlikely IMO, and I'm glad. Outside talking heads from the political sphere love to insert themselves into the WNBA on the basis of it being a women's league. As unfortunate as it is, the WNBA has been made to be a culture war issue even before CC. There will be some typical "white boy" related stuff with Flagg, but the NBA is large enough and there's enough history that (non sports) news media won't be able to insert themselves and dominate the narrative.
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Highly unlikely IMO, and I'm glad. Outside talking heads from the political sphere love to insert themselves into the WNBA on the basis of it being a women's league. As unfortunate as it is, the WNBA has been made to be a culture war issue even before CC. There will be some typical "white boy" related stuff with Flagg, but the NBA is large enough and there's enough history that (non sports) news media won't be able to insert themselves and dominate the narrative.
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I mean, it wont be to the degree of the Clark/WNBA stuff, but it will be a thing.
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Maybe of the bottom 5 but Brooklyn, Chicago, and a couple others at the backend of the odds would likely be quite a bit higher. It wouldn't be some boon for him to land here instead of Washington lol. Hansen is either sending out the dumbest **** as clickbait or a moron. Literally was like "maybe the most watched finals was because the most popular player of all time that literally changed the culture of basketball was playing in it... or maybe it was cuz people hated teh Jazz?"
Brooklyn doesnt have any history of success developing stars/being a stable franchise. I do think Chicago would be the ideal location for the league in terms of market, but out of the bottom 5 teams I would say Utah is the most stable and his best chance of reaching his super-star potential. Basically the same reasoning behind the conspiracy theory of the league wanting Wemby in San Antonio.
No. The league is quite familiar with high-performing white guys. They've just been coming from Europe as of late (e.g., Jokic, Doncic, Wagner, etc.).
Him being American changes a lot. He will get a lot more love/hype because of it. If he's really good, he could get anointed early by certain groups that will piss off other certain groups.
Of course it will be a thing, I said it would be in the post you responded to. It won’t be remotely close to the CC thing. The NBA’s existence is not a culture war issue like it is with the WNBA, and as good as Flagg is he won’t dominate the coverage of the league the way CC. I’m not expecting a 300% increase in viewership (or whatever it was) league wide because of Flagg. It wont be the same cultural moment that CC was/is.
It will be a thing and more than it is a thing with Luka/Jokic, but infinitely closer to their situation than CC.
That is virtually unrecognizable compared to the kid at the start of the year.
Texas and Oklahoma play each other on Wednesday. Let's see if there's news of a Jazz scout being at that game to watch Tre Johnson and Jeremiah Fears.