They Came For Caitlin Clark – Will The WNBA Destroy Sophie Cunningham Next?

Nothing screams “support women’s basketball” quite like a team co-owner berating two 16-year-old girls until they cry.

That’s the state of the WNBA in 2026, folks. It’s honestly a mystery wrapped in an enigma why the sport isn’t more popular.

That’s exactly what unfolded Tuesday night during the Seattle Storm’s game against the Indiana Fever. Two teenagers wearing XX-XY Athletics shirts. This is a brand built around — and I know this is a radical concept — protecting women’s sports for actual women.The two girls were told they were “f*cking insane” for holding a sign that read “Thank you Sophie for speaking up for girls.”

This comes amid the fervor surrounding Sophie Cunningham, the Fever guard who’s made it her personal mission to protect teammate Caitlin Clark from the maniacal manhandlers who seem more intent on trying to cause her real, serious harm than on trying to win games. And, more controversially, Cunningham says out loud that biological men shouldn’t play women’s sports.

Isn’t it a shame that this now counts as a hot take? We’ll let 10-year-olds chop off their God-given goods, no problem; but suggest that a 16-year-old girl shouldn’t have to guard a grown man in the paint, and suddenly it’s as if you screamed “bomb” on an airplane.

Naturally, the brave teens (braver than me: I wouldn’t attend a WNBA game nor willingly set foot in Seattle) had to put their signs away to protect the fragile feelings of the fruity vanguard, while the multi-colored, rainbow marxist next to them kept her neon “No Hate In These United States” sign up the entire game.

I don’t know, girly pop.

It seemed pretty hateful to me when the co-owner of the team, Celeste Keaton, swore at and belittled the two young athletes who paid to be there, for the crime of supporting fairness in the sport she claims to have devoted her life to. Newsflash for Klass-less Keaton: If fans wanted to watch burly, powerful bundles of XY chromosomes play basketball, that league already exists. It’s called the NBA. It’s on most nights at 9 p.m.

The highly agitated and morally bankrupt co-owner has been fined and suspended for the next five home games. But to me, this actually seems more like a reward than a punishment; not having to watch the Seattle Storm night after night, but then again, I’m a straight conservative.

It also seemed pretty hateful when a grown man in a WNBA hat (interesting choice) heckled the same girls, yelling “get out” and “security, take out the trash” while they cried.

Is it possible to just carve Washington State out of America? Could we give them to Canada? The benevolent folk can apply for residency in other states, using multiple forms of ID, of course, but the rest can stay in their sad, vampire-ridden land and float off into the northern Pacific. Our military’s schedule is pretty light right now; I’m sure they’ve got time to blow a gorge across the state line.

Sure, the scenery is stunning. But so is a Renaissance painting of a plague, but you wouldn’t want to live inside it. Seattle literally ranks #1 in adults having feelings of depression. I don’t make the rules; I just read the Census data. Some things are worth losing the view for. Baby, meet bathwater.

Oh well, I’m just glad Sophie, her teammates, and those young ladies made it out alive. But they didn’t leave with their heads hung low. The Fever crushed Keaton’s Storm clouds 105-95, marking Indiana’s fourth consecutive 100-point game — a new WNBA record for the longest such streak in league history. Clark led the crusade with 32; Cunningham flipped the booing crowd the bird by shooting 3-for-3 from three in the first quarter.

We see you, Sophie. We see you.

And increasingly, so does the rest of the country. Her Adidas partnership has become one of the league’s bigger commercial stories this season, with her player-exclusive sneaker selling out within hours of its release. Turns out normie Americans like common sense, Title IX, and rooting for pretty blondes who don’t apologize for either.

The WNBA doesn’t have a talent problem. It has a leadership problem. When your co-owners are cursing out teenage girls for saying men shouldn’t play women’s sports, in a women’s sports league, you’ve stopped being an inclusive institution and started being an ideological one; and ideological institutions don’t grow audiences, they shed them.

Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham are giving this league its biggest audience ever. Its own ownership keeps handing that audience reasons to watch literally anything else.

Fix that, and the mystery solves itself.