Correction: In the original newsletter, we mistakenly identified the player to help rescind Paige Bueckers’s technical foul as Caitlin Clark, when it was actually Alysha Clark. The staffer who wrote that mistake has been fired. (jk, ongoing bit.) Thank you to our reader, Sarah, for pointing this out to us!
What’s up kitty cats? We’ve got a quick one for you this week as hoops wind down in the M and wind up in the W.
Congrats to the New York Knickerbockers for making it to the NBA finals. We can’t wait to see if they will match up against the San Antonio Spurriffics or the Oklahoma City Thunderellas.
Also, congrats to Paige Bueckers, who had her technical foul and $500 fine rescinded by the league. She was assisted by teammate Alysha Clark, who had a bet with Bueckers that she wouldn’t get a technical foul this season. Said Clark, “If I'm going to win money out of her I want it to be legit. I want to be able to sleep at night. I don't want that it's not deserving to get her money." So true, Alysha.
Rigged For Money Or Ratings Not Sure Which
While I was busy watching the sorriest excuse for basketball in recent memory (Cavs/Knicks Game 4) the rest of the flagrant group chat was losing their mind about the WNBA.
I never really know what those hens are clucking about, but it seems the reffing situation in the W has gotten so bad it is now impacting MY life, and therefore I can no longer stand for it.
There’s nothing new or fresh about the ref discourse, and yet here we are having the same conversations again. I have long been on the record that thew WNBA cannot get out of it’s own way, but even still, the referee debacle this season feels outsized. What’s the solution? I literally don’t know, they don’t pay me to write this newsletter let alone fix a problem that feels endemic to the league. But I have to assume that the cumulative history of human ingenuity has propelled us to this moment in time where a premiere sports league can have competent referees. God willing we find them.
My "Courtside Baddie" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
Get her now! If you’re real like that.
Y’all Mind If I Plug Our Friend?
If you know Flagrant then you probably already know about our special girl Katie Heindl and her publication Basketball Feelings. This section serves as your reminder that she is once again blessing us with her ‘Exits’ series, chronicling every team eliminated from the playoffs. We simply cannot wax poetic about basketball without honoring the OG feeler herself.
Somethin’ About A Nun Who Loves Hoops
It just makes us happy! And it certainly makes Spurs fans happy when the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco bless their team to a win.
There’s a really fun interview with one of the sisters you can read, and hopefully it makes you smile to think about the beauty of a 100ft tall Frenchman transcending religion to hype up the holy.
No Pod This Week
BUT Alex and Ciara were guests on the very fun Iconic Sonics podcast! We did some WNBA hot takes, tunnel fit rankings, and got bleeped out for saying p***y more than once. Classic us!
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