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But amid the pride nights, the rainbow branding and the record number of out All-Stars, it’s worth remembering the WNBA’s impressive history. It occurred because one player, mid-championship-run nearly a quarter-century ago, answered a question she could have passed on to somebody else.

https://www.outsports.com/2026/7/24/24140297/every-out-wnba-all-star-owes-a-debt-of-gratitude-to-sue-wicks-who-blazed-the-trail/

Those reading might ask why call out three WNBA athletes among the throngs of wastrels, scoundrels, and finks that attended the Gala to pay homage to Bezos’s America? It’s because the lionhearted actions of WNBA players have led us to believe that the league stands for something more. No one expects anything from a Kardashian or a Bieber, but the WNBA athletes used to be more than brands. That’s the thing about standing for something. If you do it once, people expect you to do it again. To scab for Jeff Bezos has never been what this league is about. But as the WNBA grows in popularity, we see more of it going forward. Women’s basketball and its growing popularity is an incredible phenomenon. Lending its new cachet to the Bezos Ball was a shame and a sin.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/wnba-met-gala/