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Sue Bird Says WNBA Is Not Full of "Cute Little White Girls" Like Women's Soccer
VladTV
Staff Writer
Recently, 2020 WNBA champion Sue Bird backed up comments made by her girlfriend—soccer player Megan Rapinoe on why U.S. Women’s soccer team gets more support in public as opposed to the WNBA and U.S. Women’s basketball. While speaking to CNN, Bird was very candid about Rapinoe’s comments in ‘The Players’ Tribune’.
Bird said “To be completely blunt, but also kind of simple, soccer players generally are cute little white girls. And I think basketball players, we're all shapes and sizes.” She continued saying “It's 70-80% Black women, a lot of gay women. We're tall; we're big. And I think there's just maybe this intimidation factor with that. People are quick to talk about it, judge it, put it down. And soccer, you just don't see that just based on how they look."
When asked if the WNBA needed to market itself similar to a “girl-next-door” approach for players, Bird said “The problem is not the marketing, per se. The problem is how society and how the outside world is willing to accept the cute girl next door, but not willing to accept, or embrace, or not judge these basketball players who are tall, Black, gay.” Take a look above.
source: ESPN