Final seconds of the game and Angel Reese taunts rival. The noise goes bananas. |
LSU Tigers celebrate their women's basketball team championship win and the noise goes bananas over its player taunting a white player with her hand gesture. Her hand gesture signalled that she is about to get a championship ring.
Progressive agitator Keith Olbermann got dragged yesterday after he tweeted an attack on Angel Reese, the most valuable player.
Doesn't matter the gender, the sport, the background - you're seconds away from a championship and you do something like this and overshadow all the good. Mindless, classless, and what kind of coach does this team have?
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) April 2, 2023
I apologize for being uninformed last night about the back story on this. I don't follow hoops, college or pro, men or women. I had no idea about Clark. Both were wrong.
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) April 3, 2023
This is what I said in today's Countdown podcast. 2nd segment, about 24 minutes in: https://t.co/JDYjXBrkWy pic.twitter.com/0E1HxZyv2I
Classless piece of shit https://t.co/e2qo7g5iXi
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) April 2, 2023
"But they did the same thing!"
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) April 3, 2023
-brain dead people #WFinalFour pic.twitter.com/Fn9XLrPtk6
Just to clarify Angel thinks not defending the 3 pt line vs South Carolina was disrespectful to her. Am I taking crazy pills out here? https://t.co/cgNes2rUN7
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) April 2, 2023
For all the dummies out there who don't understand why Angel Reese is #classless it's because she taunted Clark with 10 seconds left in a game that was long over. Talking shit in the moment is 1 thing. Doing it when she did was #classless and that's why it's trending.
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) April 2, 2023
The gestures late in the Tigers’ 102-85 victory in the NCAA championship game Sunday lit up social media, with comments supporting the “Bayou Barbie” for trash talk that’s just part of the game and condemning her for lacking grace in victory.
The bubbly junior from Baltimore, who transferred from Maryland to join flamboyant LSU coach Kim Mulkey, was unapologetic in the postgame news conference.
The 2023 NCAA tournament Most Outstanding Player ... the Bayou Barbie 👑 @Reese10Angel pic.twitter.com/IIVb8mIVBV
— ESPN (@espn) April 2, 2023
A true icon 👑👑
— Kailey Edwards (@kaileyedwards_) April 3, 2023
Waiting Keith for you to have the same energy for Caitlin. Waiting…. pic.twitter.com/8vxZq67Uir
— GivePeaceAChance (@ThirdRail44) April 2, 2023
Keith Olbermann’s tweet calling a Black College Basketball Angel Reese an “idiot” proves my point that he’s a bigot and racist.
— The Chanteezy Is Real ♉️ (@iamchanteezy) April 3, 2023
I meant every word I said about this disgusting man. I don’t care if he’s a liberal.
Dave Portnoy is a classless piece of shit send tweet pic.twitter.com/IOnhAb0M9R
— HOT TAKES ANA (free agency WE MOVE) (@FootballGirlAna) April 2, 2023
"I'm too hood, I'm too ghetto. Y'all told me that all year. But when other people do it, y'all don't say nothing. So this is for the girls that look like me."
— The Sporting News (@sportingnews) April 2, 2023
Angel Reese is unapologetically her 👏 @Reese10Angel pic.twitter.com/9cuCWwayhA
Unc Shannon sharpe spittin facts about the Angel Reese & Caitlin Clark situation 💯💯💯 pic.twitter.com/jQ59DG6LVs
— Shannonnn sharpes Burner (PARODY Account) (@shannonsharpeee) April 3, 2023
“I don’t fit the narrative and I’M OK WITH THAT. I’m from Baltimore where you hoop outside & talk trash.”
— GOWIE (@DaKidGowie) April 2, 2023
“What y’all gon’ say now?”
- 2023 NCAA National Champ, Angel Reese! 💍 pic.twitter.com/FiXAaK0O7h
“Angel Reese has no class. Caitlin Clark was raised right.” pic.twitter.com/sWZJVh3Sek
— KillaChem (@Flour_Ranger) April 2, 2023
Angel Reese with a message 🗣️ pic.twitter.com/bW0DzzH4cH
— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) April 3, 2023
In light of what happened today: pic.twitter.com/QGV8jFrQVM
— Chris Williamson (@CWilliamson44) April 3, 2023
So was it classless when Caitlin Clark did it?? https://t.co/KJlQAFFLMy
— Emmanuel Acho (@EmmanuelAcho) April 2, 2023
If you didn’t say it was classless when Caitlin Clark did it to her opponents then don’t say it about Angel Reese either. https://t.co/5S8P6mvhhx
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) April 2, 2023
I guess you didn't see Clark taunting the Indiana player and talking crap after the game. I love how some of yall have amnesia when it comes to certain events
— john Polk (@PolkJohnpolkjr) April 2, 2023
The lowkey racism you can feel in your bones reading some of these comments
— karan (@K_Dreamz_) April 2, 2023
Let me get this straight.
— Larry Huynh (@larryhuynh) April 2, 2023
It's gutsy for a white woman, Caitlin Clark, to taunt during a game.
But it's classless for a black woman, Angel Reese, to give her a taste of her own medicine.
Do I have that right?pic.twitter.com/0ZApOZvg2o
“It was cute when Caitlin Clark did it. Y’all didn’t have any issues with it at all. So don’t be all outraged and talking about class and sportsmanship when Angel Reese does the same thing.”
— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) April 2, 2023
- Former NBA player @etanthomas36 pic.twitter.com/9mPoPtY9TK
“All year, I was critiqued about who I was,” Reese said. “I don’t fit in a box that y’all want me to be in. I’m too hood. I’m too ghetto. But when other people do it, y’all say nothing. So this was for the girls that look like me, that’s going to speak up on what they believe in. It’s unapologetically you.”
Clark, the scoring sensation who was the first with consecutive 40-point games in an NCAA Tournament, made the face-waving gesture to no one in particular during an Elite Eight victory over Louisville.
The Associated Press Player of the Year wasn’t shy about showing her emotions when the Hawkeyes knocked off undefeated defending national champion South Carolina in the semifinals.
If she saw Reese’s gestures, Clark didn’t seem concerned about them.
“I was just trying to get to the handshake line and shake hands and be grateful that my team was in that position,” said Clark, who scored 30 points. “That’s all you can do is hold your head high, be proud of what you did. All the credit in the world to LSU. They were tremendous.”
In a 79-72 semifinal victory over Virginia Tech, Reese made what appeared to be a “you’re too small” gesture several times after scoring around the basket.
The fashionable 6-foot-3 post with modeling aspirations is becoming a social media magnet. Reese wooed Lil Wayne after chastising the rapper from New Orleans for reaching out to Elite Eight opponent Miami before doing the same with the Tigers.
“I’m going to be me, but I can’t do it without the girls here, and I can’t do it without the rest of my teammates and coaches,” said Reese, who had 15 points and 10 rebounds while three teammates scored at least 20 points.
She was named the Most Outstanding Player at the Final Four after setting an NCAA single-season record with her 34th double-double against the Hawkeyes.
I LOVE BEING A BLACK QUEEN.😇
— Angel Reese (@Reese10Angel) April 3, 2023
“Twitter can say what Twitter can say,” Reese said. “I love reading those comments. I have all the screenshots of what everybody has said about me all season. What are you going to say now?”
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