Posted on 02/26/2021 11:01:46 PM PST by conservative98
First, WNBA players campaigned to oust Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loeffler from her seat in the Senate. Now, after months of pressure from players who said Loeffler’s values didn’t fit with the WNBA’s, Loeffler is out of the league, too.
The WNBA announced Friday that Loeffler and co-owner Mary Brock sold the team to a three-person investor group that includes former Dream star Renee Montgomery. Larry Gottesdiener, chairman of real estate firm Northland, and Suzanne Abair, Northland’s chief operating officer, also will share ownership of the team. The WNBA’s and NBA’s boards of governors unanimously approved the sale, the league said. Terms were not disclosed.
The transition from Loeffler, the former Republican senator from Georgia who became an enemy of the players after speaking out against Black Lives Matter, to Montgomery, who opted out of last season to focus on social justice, marks another milestone in an era of athlete empowerment.
“You have Suzanne and I who are going to be leading the forefront on the day-to-day, and that’s a win for women’s sports; that’s a win for women’s basketball. That shows a lot of representation,” Montgomery said. “All the things that we wanted as players, it’s happening here in Atlanta.”
The sale was quickly celebrated by the WNBA players who pushed for it.
“It is time for the women of the Atlanta Dream and their fans to have an opportunity to heal and move forward. It is our fervent wish that we shall never see again such an abuse of power and arrogant display of privilege,” Women’s National Basketball Players Association Executive Director Terri Jackson said in a statement.
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Will we see trans players heading to the wnba soon???
Is the future of all Women’s sports?????
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Ha! Losers. BLM helped elect the nutjobs who just voted to allow dudes to play in the WNBA. It will be the Tranny NBA soon.
If Don Imus was still alive, he’s call these moonbat players, “Nappy-headed ho’s.”
there are few hetero women in the wnba....and nothing against lesbians, but they do become like a cabal of witches....thinking the same, etc....
At least they were able to sell. A year from now anything owned by anyone who does not toe the party line will simply be expropriated in civil forfeiture.
as usual leftists project blissfully unaware of their own hypocrisy
And to what end will that be?
A recreation of the Soviet soccer team that never actually won anything?
I have plenty against lesbians
They are the competition
And many are weird AS
And hate men.....
I thought they were already trannies?
Golly I wonder who actually put up most of the money? The white guy who owns a real estate development company with hundreds of millions of dollars of assets? or a former WNBA player who is listed first in every single news article?
Loeffler probably made a profit on the sale, or at least lost less money than she would have by continuing to own a stake in a professional sports team that spent a year trying to operate under covid rules.
The thing about BLM is it’s on the 16th minute of it’s 15 minutes of fame. It’s now on the ash heap of web meme history. But thanks to Al Gore they learned that just because his scam was exposed doesn’t mean that he can’t keep collecting money on the dead horses’ carcass.
I didn't find that to be the case when I was in San Francisco. It was hetero heaven if you were a straight male. They even mentioned it in a movie called Time After Time starring Malcom McDowell and Mary Steenburgen. Mary works in a bank and she is telling another female teller about this odd Englishman she had met. The other teller asks her "Is he gay?" Mary says no and the teller says "that's good enough."
It was a joke,,,,,not literal
I do not like butch dykes and find them mentally tormented self mutilators
She’s as bright as a 15 watt bulb.
Well, if you're going to have a WNBA team Decatur, GA, a suburb of Atlanta, has the largest number of female same-sex owned households in the country. So Kelly must have done her research before she bought the team. Unfortunately she forgot about their political leanings.
Nah. Just mostly dykes. Wait until some 7 footers start dunking on them.
Atlanta and surrounding areas are becoming like San Francisco re drugs, radical feminism, political Marxists and nutjobs, rising crime, and politically corrupt Democrat politicians and their machines (Dominion or people).
What could go wrong with that?????
Yes, the WNBA product doesn’t sell - but unlike women’s soccer, the male sport makes enough money to subsidize them.
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