WNBA Can't Define a Woman — Sports Media Won't Ask Why | Ep 1215

**Jason Whitlock** (0:00)
Go ahead, laugh at the WNBA. The league is a joke. Cathy Engelbert has formed a task force to determine what a woman is.
Enes Kanter and Royce White read the CBA, found the loophole, and declared for the 2027 draft two former NBA guys trolling a league that can't define its own eligibility rules without a committee.
DiJonai Carrington assaulted Sophie Cunningham, called her ejection White privilege, and was back on the court Monday night like nothing had happened. The WNBA media is afraid to ask Stephanie White about her defense of Carrington's assault on Cunningham. Yeah, the WNBA is an easy punch line. But let's not pretend the entire American sports universe isn't part of the gag. The W is the funny target masking the sad truth.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:04)
There's that fire. Grab your popcorn.

**Jason Whitlock** (1:08)
Not a rule, not a sentence, a task force, because a task force generates a week of headlines and an answer ends the content. Chaos is the only marketing budget this league has ever needed. Enes Kanter didn't storm a locker room.
He held up the league's own paperwork, Article 13, age, eligibility, and no sex category, no language, and asked them to enforce it. Take a listen.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:45)
Well, it's official to official.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:47)
I just declared for the 2027 WNBA draft in April. Join me in this check.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:53)
Enes Kanter freedom decided he's gonna throw his hat into the WNBA.

**SPEAKER_6** (1:58)
The WNBA does not ban men who identify as women right now from playing in the league.

**Scott** (2:02)
We would dominate the WNBA without batting an eyelash.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:06)
The number one prospect in the history of the WNBA.

**Jason Whitlock** (2:15)
Royce White, he joined the bit, Senate candidate, wig post, sometimes identifying as a woman for the purpose of professional basketball. Take a listen.

**SPEAKER_8** (2:26)
Draw more eyes. You think Caitlin Clark's drawing eyeballs to the women's game? Wait till me and Enes Kanter get there. Wait until the LeBron Jameses of the world show up.
Wait until your young high school athletes decide, you know what? Why would I want to go hang around with a bunch of other sweaty men in a hyper-competitive setting? Just go on over here to the WNBA and experience being a woman because we all should get the opportunity to experience being the other sex because it's just a construct anyway.

**Jason Whitlock** (2:59)
That's two former NBA players treating the Women's National Basketball Association like an open mic night and they're funnier doing it than the league is at being serious. Carrington put Sophie Cunningham on the floor, caught a flagrant, posted white privilege on threads, tagged the fever, then got asked about it and declined to elaborate. On the record, said nothing. She offered this instead. She had already spoken with people who potentially will have an agency to create the change that I'm hoping comes about.
That's Northern California Kamala Harris speak. It's gobbledygook. It's we must be unburdened by what has been. It's black girl tragic.
She also said that it's just how she plays. It might happen again. She was back on the court Monday night. Like the whole country imagined the entire weekend.
Stephanie White, meanwhile, met the media in Indianapolis. The head coach who defended the assaulter on the opposing team. At a podium, microphones, credentialed reporters. Nobody asked her about the defense of Carrington's assault on Cunningham. Not one real question. Indiana's lieutenant governor had more to say about it than the beat writers paid to cover the team.
Mop the task force. Ridicule the loophole. Laugh at the word salad. That's all fair. That's earned. Just don't stop at the easy target. Look at what we've been dealing with the entire summer. Diana Russini and Mike Vrabel, a reporter allegedly entangled with a sitting head coach, a coach in the awards conversation, a coach whose team she covered at the highest level of the industry, and ESPN goes quiet, not because she's still on the payroll, but because the worldwide leader has a brand to protect around female sports reporters, particularly Mina Kimes, the pretty little Asian princess. ESPN passes off as the second coming of John Madden.
The story isn't only the relationship, the story is the silence. Conflict of interest used to be a firing offense for the coverage. Now, it's a brand management problem for the network. Aaron Rodgers finally said it out loud on the Pat McAfee show. The quiet part.

**SPEAKER_5** (5:40)
Listen.

**SPEAKER_4** (5:40)
But look at the network.

**SPEAKER_9** (5:41)
What is the network doing?

**SPEAKER_3** (5:42)
Like you have literally an individual that maybe used to work at ESPN that covers our league at the highest level.