It’s the year of women’s basketball. Someone tell Michael Porter Jr.
South Carolina’s recent win over LSU drew more viewers than any NBA game that night. Caitlin Clark brings in record attendance numbers for Iowa’s road games. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The college game is heating up with March Madness just a month away, and so is the WNBA with free agency drama and the 2024 draft around the corner.
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In a newly released episode of “The Pivot” podcast, though, Porter called women’s basketball “a different sport” than men’s basketball and questioned WNBA players’ fight for pay equity.
The 25-year-old Nuggets forward has two sisters who played basketball in college, a sister who plays in high school and his mom was named Iowa’s “Miss Basketball” in 1983, as he discussed with Boardroom in January. He is known for wearing Stewies, Breanna Stewart’s signature Puma sneakers.
Yet on the podcast, Porter was asked about the pay difference between the NBA and the WNBA. Naturally, pingpong came into the conversation, to the chagrin of a number of WNBA players and fans.
this wasn’t advocating for women’s hoops at all smh it’s actually insulting https://t.co/bwbJDLixIe
