becky hammon’s crucifix

If any corporate executives will not come to the bargaining table or give you your fair share of the revenue, shake off the dust from your A’Ones as you leave that boardroom and STRIKE.
-One possible course of action for the #WNBA Players’ Association, laid out in Matthew 10:14

“You children of the devil, you enemies of all righteousness, full of deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the righteous paths of The Point God?”
-A question to @theathletic.com and @espn.com, among others, on their #WNBA labor coverage, quoted in Acts 13:10

Unless it’s revenue sharing it’s not good enough.
-God
#WNBA

Resist the [Blue] Devil, and she will flee from you.
-What Jordan Harrison said to the WVU #WBB bench before the brawl with Duke, which was repeated by Mark Kellogg in his halftime speech, which was then quoted in James 4:7
#NCAAW #BlueDevils #WVU

Crooked Adam Silver has surrounded us with lies and deceit, but The Ringer #WNBA Show still walks with The Point God and faithfully speaks truth about power and economy in the league.
-The smart and always on time reporting of @seeratsohi.bsky.social described in Hosea 11:12

On the Clock: Legal Consequences of a WNBA Lockout » Winsidr A looming WNBA lockout could reshape women’s basketball. Explore the legal stakes, labor laws, and player power in the CBA negotiations.

Lead us in your truth and teach us, for you are the #WNBA journalists of the salvation of the league discourse on labor, unions, and contracts; for you I have been waiting for so long.
-Praise for @winsidr.com in Psalm 25:5

I think Steph and DB should have both counted!!

I wasn’t sure either, but my guess is it is in reference to DB’s departure from the Fever and her former teammates’ public shade about it.

Now is the time! Here comes The Point God’s kingdom! Change your hearts and lives, and trust this good news of the #WNBA!
-A message to #MNBA fans who are still gambling and worshipping idols when there are unicorns and StudBudz out here

Yes. Seems the reporting slippage between “lockout” and “strike” is related to the refusal to clarify or investigate other deceptive conflations (revenue vs profits, the role of NBA-aligned owners / coaches / Adam Silver v-v Cathy, etc.). Just obfuscation of power + labor all around.

thank you for this!!!

Repent!!! COUGHESPNCOUGHNYCRIMESCOUGHTHEATHLETIC
-God, whose magnificent power works through the #WNBA players’ union and also, while we are on the topic, Zohran Mamdani

💒 THOU
🏀 SHALT
💒 NEITHER
🏀 SHILL
💒 FOR
🏀 BOSSES
💒 NOR
🏀 UNCRITICALLY
💒 REPEAT
🏀 MANAGEMENT
💒 ANTI-UNION
🏀 PROPAGANDA.

🏀 UNCRITICAL
💒 REPETITION
🏀 OF
💒 ANTI-UNION
🏀 PROPAGANDA
💒 IS
🏀SHILLING
💒 FOR
🏀 BOSSES.

-A commandment many legacy sports media ppl will hear upon being sentenced to hell #WNBA

“a source close to the league said that these G league dudes keep getting hired for reasons related to union busting” (said ESPN and the Athletic…never)

call me a conspiracy theory but seems related to the death grip the NBA owners are trying to keep on the league — would be great to see some journalist investigate the relationship between NBA type hires and owner hostility to players’ union / revenue sharing

💒 THOU
🏀 SHALT
💒 UNDERSTAND
🏀THE
💒 DIFFERENCE
🏀 BETWEEN
💒 A
🏀 LOCKOUT
💒 AND
🏀 A
💒 STRIKE.

-a labor commandment that many #WNBA fans + reporters are still breaking. thread ⬇️

Basically the WBPA public relations + messaging strategy is TOP SHELF. These women are not just brilliant at basketball. With impeccable timing + execution, they are multiplying their leverage over some true scumbag bosses + giving the rest of us a clinic in labor communications. Respect. 👑
#WNBA

This is why they want to fire her / will eventually fire her. But, as the one anonymous jackass says in the ESPN piece, #WNBA owners are now in a corner where doing so makes them “look weak.” They have two options: let a disgraced person manage bargaining *or* disgrace themselves by firing her.

If I am a worker in a contract fight, I much prefer to be dealing with a boss who constantly undermines the legitimacy of the management position by saying offensive and embarrassing things in public. So much better than a slick, manipulative, and rhetorically gifted boss. The owners know this.

This isn’t because Cathy Deloitte pro-labor. It’s because she’s so spectacularly bad at her job—which is to carry out the agenda of Original Sin Adam, ideally without irreparably alienating literally every #WNBA player, coach, and fan—that she is driving people toward the union.

Unsatisfying reporting notwithstanding, the quotes do suggest that at least some of the #WNBA owners see Cathy Deloitte as a liability for *their* interests (read: unchecked greed).

Therefore whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed by union leaders in the press.
-Heads up to #WNBA bosses/scabs and also, yes, a subtweet to the sports reporters giving these cowards anonymity, see Luke 12:3

Your periodic reminder that Natasha Cloud has been the most consistently politicized + courageous player in the #WNBA. Black freedom, queer politics, wealth redistribution, anti-carceral organizing, Palestine liberation: she knows that real solidarity requires risk + sacrifice. She shows up.
-God

Oppression upon oppression! Deceit upon deceit!
They refuse to know the details of the #WNBA media deal or proclaim the treachery of the #NBA, declares The Point God.
Shall I not bring retribution on sports journalists such as these?
-Tacit anti-labor journalism discussed in Jeremiah 9:6-8

If in spite of everything you have seen this year from ManBun, GirlDad, and Tyler Marsh you continue to be hostile to Black women coaches, then I, too, will be hostile to you: The Point God will strike you sevenfold for your sins!
-On consequences of these #WNBA personnel decisions. Leviticus 26:23.

wtf! shame on them!

For Unions, Sometimes a Lockout Is Better Than a Strike With careful planning and a little jujitsu, workers can turn a lockout to their advantage.

Workers can prepare for a lockout and use it to their advantage! That is likely something the WBPA is doing amid the stonewalling + intimidation from Cathy, Adam Silver, other #WNBA exec management.

Learn about more about strikes vs lockouts from @labornotes.bsky.social:

Strike = union initiated, as in workers democratically vote to withhold labor, after bosses refuse to negotiate / meet key demands

Lockout = ownership initiated, as in workers are literally locked out + unpaid as punishment

Similar effects, very different provenance + strategy implications

Thou shalt understand the difference between a lockout and a strike.

Thou shalt not use these terms interchangeably in commentary on CBA negotiations.

Thou shalt remind others of the distinction.

-A reminder to any #WNBA fans mixed up re: an important labor commandment

“The Aces didn’t just win another title; they turned basketball into communion. The champagne is the blood. The tears are the holy water.”
-D’Joumbarey Moreau with the theological treatise on the Aces’ season (also, more folks should be following Moreau Sports Media!)
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