See, stories are so important and the WNBA is proof.

I have really enjoyed the league this year. Its viewership has more than doubled too, and that’s simply because they finally have a storyline.

Sometimes people need a reason. A why.

Why should I watch your game? Why?

The WNBA used to get clowned a lottt. Comedians used their terrible views as material. One of them even went to a game with a blanket and a pillow.

Many NBA players advised the ladies to begin dunking as their ‘why.’ If people are assured of seeing ladies flying in the air and delivering power dunks, they might be inclined to watch. I don’t still understand why WNBA players regularly opposed that idea, but as it turned out they really didn’t need it. They needed a proper story line.

Enter Caitlin Clark and Angel Resee, two amazing players but on college level.

Angel began to gather fans for her amazing play and arrogance on the field. Instagram was littered with reels of her being a menace.

My favorite clip of her was her blocking a shot with her right hand, while holding her shoe in her left.

But it was just cruise and a nice development until she clashed with another phenomenal player, Caitlin.

Now, Caitlin had a tiny storyline of her own: she is white in a league dominated by black women. But the media loved her. And for good reason too. Like I said, she is phenomenal. But many people were convinced her race was playing a huge role in her popularity, and they were loud about their accusations. Even ladies of the popular show, The Real, called the media out.

Well, trust me, it wasn’t about race. Caitlin is just that good. She has been playing since she was five, in a tough boy’s team. Plus everyone in her family is into sports too, so she is very competitive.

Anyway, we now have two popular collegians with a growing fan base.

Okay, still not that deep. They wouldn’t be the first popular and mainstream female basketball players. I mean we have A’ja Wilson – who has a massive fan base, is a brand favorite and has won MVP two years in a row.

So what happened?

I’ll tell you what.

On the 27th of April, 2023, Angel and Caitlin played against each other.

It wouldn’t even be the first time, but now things were unknowingly heated so wahala occurred.

During the match, the girls were both as competitive as usual, but Caitlin’s plays stood out and she was getting cheered. As if that didn’t hurt enough, Caitlin took it a step further.

She waved a hand in front of her face towards Angel’s team. It was a ‘you cannot see me’ sign, a brag and a challenge.

John Cena took to X to tweet: “Even if they could see you…they couldn’t guard you!”

Caitlin later claimed she was doing it towards the fans, not Angel’s team, LSU.

I don’t care how true that was. Angel didn’t either. So, in their next game in April, her team beat Caitlin’s and she walked over to where Caitlin stood and waved her hand in front of her face too.

Challenge accepted and won!

The drama that was heating up because of the racial conversations, imploded.

The media was in a frenzy. People dragged Angel, and her fans dragged right back.

Haters of the league started watching games to follow the drama. It was Team Angel vs Team Caitlin.

Angel became the villain of the drama, the queen who couldn’t let things go. Caitlin was the hero who was just competitive without ill feelings. To make it worse, the race-twist deepened. Most blacks settled for Angel, and white’s for Caitlin.

The Twitter wars were fire! Fans began comparing stats and plays. A collegian GOAT conversation began.

Ghen ghen…

Well, these collegians finally graduated and left College basketball with their drama. But they immediately joined the professional league, the WNBA, and as if the drama they were coming with wasn’t enough, some veterans in the league claimed the girls only looked good because they played on a college level.

Meaning, when around them, the veterans, they would flop.

Ha!

The fans didn’t take it kindly and now more villains were added to the drama.

To make it even worse, a few months after Caitlin joined the league, her new team, Indiana Fever, became the first ever to have a flight chartered for them in the WNBA, a league that’s over twenty years old.

That is, while the other girls were sitting in public airplanes, Caitlin was spreading her legs in a private plane.

Her team even posted a picture and her fans called it the ‘Caitlin effect.’

God when.

A’ja, who had been quiet, finally tapped her mic and said, “yep, this is racist.”

She was dragged to smithereens.

Angel also tapped her mic and said “give this treatment to othersss…”

Yup, they dragged her too.

The draggers’ argument was that Caitlin was bringing so much money to the league.

“Bring plenty of money to the league too and you’ll get preferential treatment.”

While that war was still going on, Nike decided to give Caitlin a shoe, making her the very first WNBA player to get one.

Nawao, read the room.

Fans that were not Caitlin’s, wanted to die. If anyone deserved a shoe, it was A’ja, they said, who is inarguably the best in the league.

Well, for some reason best known to her, probably because of legal agreements – emphasis on probably – A’ja forgot to tweet that her own shoe was in the works. When she finally revealed months later that it had been in the works for a year, after all that drama, Caitlin’s fans wanted to die.

Okay.

When that drama finally began to die down, the Olympics came around the corner and guess who wasn’t picked to be in the Olympics team to play for the US, even after breaking multiple records as a rookie, and even when all her matches had the highest views both physically and online? Caitlin.

But then again, Angel wasn’t picked either.

Their fans wanted to die.

More drama. More twitter drags. Now, even the league’s executives were dragged.

Okay.

As a tradition, selected members of the unpicked usually play against the picked before the Olympics begin. It’s called an All Star Game. So for the first time ever, Angel and Caitlin wore the same jersey and played on the same team.

That game had the highest views ever. Tickets were sold out weeks before the match. People placed bets and sports media houses had a filled day.

While Angel and Caitlin’s fans were praying for the same thing, that the unpicked beat the picked, they were also ready to insult each other and compare stats as usual.

That match started at 3am and I walked around my room to stay awake because, tufiakwa that I missed it.

It. Was. Worth. It

That game was massively fun and competitive. Everyone delivered. Caitlin broke a record, Angel broke one too. A’ja stood out but her team, the Olympic team, lost to the unpicked.

Amazing. Everyone has proven to be good so we will now rest, right?

Wrong.

An old but new conversation began: if Angel and Caitlin are this good, who will win Rookie of the Year?! Or to give the award more Steeze: ROTY

New arguments began and stats were compared and dissected. ESPN also chook their head inside from nowhere, and prophesied that Angel will win because she’s better.

They dragged ESPN.

Anyway, it seems as though Caitlin took that conversation as seriously as the fans did. If her games immediately after the Olympics were any indication, the baby girl went home and trained for war while deceiving us with pictures of her on a yacht.

Angel, on the other hand, did the opposite. She took the vacation seriously and was ‘traveling the world.’

Her fans wanted to die after she lost a few games after the Olympics.

Now, after several drags and fights they seem to be giving up. Caitlin’s new stats are just too distinct and amazing. It is also obvious that the conversation is over. Caitlin will win ROTY.

Now, we’ll rest right?

Nope. A new conversation is here: