Angel Reese getting a fourth-place vote for WNBA MVP was incredibly dumb. That is one of the weirdest votes I’ve seen, and the reason why people are like we need to know who did this is because just like the NBA, we all know who the person was that voted Domantas Sabonis third for MVP, third for Defensive Player of the Year, and All-NBA First Team. We all know who that crazy person was, and they should not have a vote again. We all know who the guy from China was that kept voting Steph Curry for his All-Defensive First Team, and we all know the guy who voted for LeBron over Carmelo Anthony.

In the NBA, we know who voted for Derrick Rose MVP in 2011; we all know who that was—not in 2011, but in 2021, ten years after 2011. Sorry! We all know that some of these voters make crazy choices, and Angel Reese being fourth is probably the worst of them all. But Diar Hambi getting two fifth-place votes? Wild. Absolutely wild. At least she put up like 17 and 10. She got fifth-place votes from—I don’t know who! I don’t know who felt bad for the whole situation around her. It wasn’t basketball reasons; she’s a myth.

I’ve watched so much of Hambi; she’s a solid starter who just put up big numbers because she’s on a bad team. Then you’ve got the fifth place for Kalea McBride, which I’m cool about. The fourth-place vote for Arike is mental. She shot 35% from the field. Then you have the third place for Kelsey Mitchell. I’m happy she got a third place; I would have been fine with a couple of fifth-place votes. But a third-place vote means she is guaranteed to be better than Caitlin Clark? She’s the best player on the team, and she doesn’t even score more than Caitlin Clark!

There were a lot of really bad picks, but obviously, the Angel Reese one is the craziest because of all those players—no offense to Angel—she got a higher MVP vote than DeWanna Bonner, which was a weird one as well. But she got a higher MVP vote in fourth place than Hambi did. Hambi’s better than Reese, again, I don’t think by much, but Hambi is a little bit better than Reese.

She had a higher vote than her and a higher vote than Kayla McBride, who I know a lot of people had on their freaking First Team All-WNBA. Heck, I would have voted for Atlanta Smith above Angel Reese! Like, Angel Reese is somewhere between 25 and 30. We counted out all the players, and I was like she is somewhere between— I think you can’t go any higher than 20, but she’s probably somewhere between like 24 and 30 in that range, which by the way is unbelievable for a rookie. But the 30th best player this season cannot get the fourth-place vote! I’m sorry; you can’t do that.

It would be like having Caitlin Clark in your MVP race and not only that, she missed the last couple of games. The best ability is availability, like fourth in MVP voting. The funniest part about this is if you guys don’t know Robin Lundberg—he’s a journalist and one of those making YouTube videos—he called out this whole situation and made an article. He’s been called every name under the sun; he’s been called everything. Go take a look at his channel; he mainly makes Caitlin Clark content—heck, he makes a higher percentage of Caitlin Clark content than I do!

But he got called every single name you can possibly call somebody. Obviously, the usual when you say, “Angel Reese is a very bad offensive player” or “Angel Reese struggles with layups,” you get—if you say the quote, “Angel Reese struggles with layups,” you are either a racist or the last H. If you are a certain race and if you’re another race, you are the last half of the animal of a raccoon if you simply state she struggles with layups or “Angel Reese is not a good three-point shooter.” I got called out for saying “Angel Reese is not a good three-point shooter” because she made two at one time against Seattle; she made three three-pointers this season!

Caitlin Clark has made more than that in a quarter against the Mystics in June, and that was before the Olympic team was announced. She made more than that in a freaking quarter in one game. Obviously, a quarter in one game is part of a game, but let’s look at this article. This article right here caused everyone to go into a freaking uproar. The amount of names this guy was called—thankfully he seems to be able to kind of ignore this.

If you think some of the abuse that these WNBA players are getting from quote-unquote Caitlin fans, oh no, the Reese fans are worse. I’m not going to say they’re worse; I’m just going to say they’re as vicious. Thankfully, even if I make this video looking at the comment section, I know there’s going to be a lot of people attacking me. But the reality is—I got called out earlier today, ironically, for not this; I’m no word when I was talking about the Diar Hambi situation.

I got told the defender that did not allow Ty Harris to land on a jump shot should be suspended for taking her out for the series. Ty Harris was playing defense; Lexi Hall just took a jump shot, Ty Harris jumped forward, fouled Lexi Hall, and fell to the ground. She got injured fouling somebody, and apparently, I’m being called out for that. But that’s just one of those things where it’s like you’re going to get called out for anything, you’re going to be called out for everything.

It is mad that people are like, “Oh, why is everyone just picking on Angel Reese for finishing fourth in MVP votes?” Man, do these people not watch basketball? Do these people not know? Again, the man is having to do a press tour to defend his LeBron James not being MVP vote. The guy who voted Domantas Sabonis third for MVP? Everyone knew who that guy was! Heck, the guy that voted for the wrong Jalen Williams or the guy this year that voted for the wrong Bogdanovic—he voted for Bojan Bogdanovic for Sixth Man of the Year who only came off the bench for ten games.

What we look at is that every time people see a crazy thing in the NBA, they’re like, “Who voted this?” Who voted the wrong Jalen Williams? I don’t think it actually was the wrong Jalen Williams, but when it came out it was like someone voted the wrong Jalen Williams because Jalen Williams had one vote for All-Rookie First Team, and one person didn’t vote Jalen Williams. Heck, Kendrick Perkins leaving Brandon Miller off his All-Rookie Team and Mark Jackson leaving Jokic off his MVP ballot—like all of this stuff happens in sports!

But people make this out like you have to be a certain driving word followed by “-ist” if you are calling out Angel Reese for the exact same thing. The reality is that people want—no, I don’t like using this term, but people respect those WNBA fans who are all about the WNBA; they actually don’t respect the league as a sports league. The reality is that the vast majority of new fans—and I’m not talking about the Twitter trolls; I’m not talking about the toxic fandom that comes with literally every sport.

I’m talking about people that are watching this—the vast majority of people watching the games are NBA fans who have moved over because they like watching the Fever; they enjoy watching women’s basketball. A lot of those fans again know other players; they like watching teams play. The reality is that I’m sorry; treating the WNBA in the exact same way as you would treat the NBA—whether that be players, coaches, or just discourse around it—is the biggest way you can respect the WNBA.

Coddling players—at the end of the day, look, these players are real humans too. But just like NBA players, they do delete the X app. Delete the freaking X app! That big X there should mean a no-go. Don’t go onto this app! I’m sorry; I’m looking at WNBA players, and I think one of the most toxic accounts on Twitter or X—whatever the hell it’s called now—got followed by Arike because she posted something positive.

These WNBA players, if someone posts something positive about them, are suddenly following fans. No! Stop following fans! Stop interacting with fans! Stop jumping in Twitter spaces! I’m sorry, I don’t know what’s going on with this league, but the reality is that the basketball for some teams is pretty good. The Liberty play great basketball, the Lynx play great basketball—depending on the team they come up against, the Mercury play great basketball.

The Aces? I don’t agree; I don’t like how they play basketball. The Fever play great basketball, the Wings play great basketball, and I like how the Mystics play basketball. So there are really good teams! There are teams whose tactic is to drag you down to their level, as in the Chicago Sky or Connecticut Sun. One team obviously does a lot better than the other, but that was kind of their goal: grit and grind, drag you down.

You can have the occasional team like that, but the actual basketball is good. But the reality of it is that you’ve got to talk about the basketball.