It looks like the hardwood courts of the WNBA are becoming schools of hard knocks where we’re all being forced to learn a couple of hard lessons. First, there are the hard knocks that the WNBA’s premier white player, Caitlin Clark, keeps suffering on its hardwood courts at the hands of its predominant black players. The obvious resentment of Clark’s rise to stardom by the WNBA’s predominate black players reminds us of how Larry Bird’s rise to stardom was once resented by the NBA’s predominant black players, some of whom, like Isaiah Thomas, insisted that Bird was overrated and only won the league’s MVP because he was white. Although the WNBA, along with its black hoopsters, denies the presence of racism on its courts, racism keeps rearing its ugly head in defiance of the denial. For instance, just yesterday, one of its black players, DiJonai Carrington, who poked Caitlin Clark in the eye during a 2024 playoff game, was thrown out of a game for slapping another white player in the face. Immediately afterward, Carrington took to the internet to protest that her ejection from the game had nothing to do with her flagrant foul, but everything to do with “white privilege.” 

For years, racial demagogues have been slam-dunking on us their racial demagoguery. They’ve incessantly and insidiously insinuated that all whites are inherent white supremacists and that our country is innately inundated with institutional racism. Furthermore, they’ve insisted that racism only comes in one flavor, vanilla, and that there is no such thing as colored racists or reverse discrimination. Therefore, according to these race-baiters, there is no way Caitlin Clark is the victim of racism, since only whites, like Clark, can possibly be racists. Yet, on the hardwood courts of the WNBA, America is presently learning a hard lesson; namely, that racism comes in all colors, not just white.

A second hard lesson being learned on the hardwood courts of the WNBA is that you can’t double dribble transgenderism and feminism at the same time, without eventually being whistled for a technical foul. Having publicly and proudly promoted transgenderism, by championing biological males in women’s sports, the WNBA now finds itself trapped in its own coffin corner. A couple of biological males, who happen to be former NBA players, have now declared themselves for the WNBA draft. Both 6 foot 10 and 250 pound Enes Kanter Freedom and 6 foot 8 and 270 pound Royce White claim eligibility to play in the WNBA, since they now identify as females. According to the two, the league’s advocacy for transgenderism and policy of inclusion has made it possible for them to come out of retirement from the NBA to become dominate players in the WNBA. 

Is the WNBA soon to become a league dominated by washed-up former NBA hoopsters, who now claim to be women? If so, the WNBA has signed its own death warrant, by condemning, as unforgivable intolerance toward the transgendered, the banning of transgendered women—biological males—from all women’s sports. If the WNBA tries a pick and roll to get around this double dilemma it will be whistled for a double technical foul, blown by the advocates of both women’s rights and trans rights. On the other hand, if it allows itself to be full-court pressed by former NBA players it will end up in its own coffin corner until the buzzer sounds, ending all of its games for all time. Although a hard lesson to learn from the hardwood courts of the WNBA, we are learning the hard way, that you can’t double dribble feminism and transgenderism at the same time, without eventually being whistled for a flagrant foul by either the safeguarders of women’s sports or the spokespersons for transgenderism. You simply can’t burn both of these ends against the middle without eventually be burned between the two.