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One other thing that I was not expecting and the first time I heard it, it actually scared the s**t out of me.

They pray over there. I didn't know that they blasted it like through the city.

It was 6 a.m. and I still wasn't asleep and I hear this like, hmm, like some sort of hum and it scared me half to death.

What's up you guys? I'm Rachel Demita and welcome to the Courtside Club.

I am so excited to be back home in my home studio, to be back in the States.

If you guys haven't watched my previous videos, Dre and I were actually in Dubai for about two weeks and while it was very fun, I am so happy to be back home.

But before I jump into our regularly scheduled sports and pop culture topics of the day, I did want to talk about my experience in Dubai and just kind of my like initial reactions to the country because I felt like going in.

I didn't know what to expect because I was I was just like looking up a lot of things online because I feel like their culture over there is a lot different than the U.S.

And one of the biggest things for me also was just looking up like what clothes I was allowed to wear there because that is one thing that I heard is that women cover up a lot more in Dubai and then obviously in other countries in the Middle East.

So I wanted to share with you guys what it is actually like.

Like in Dubai now that I have experienced it for myself and I was there for two weeks.

So starting off, I will just talk about the clothing situation.

So when I was looking up online, I was actually nervous because I was seeing just kind of like a mix of things.

Obviously, I was seeing like photos of girls in Dubai who were like dressing very normal and like you would kind of in the States.

But then I was also reading that there are some places where you couldn't even like show.

Your shoulders or like you had to cover your head and also your knees was another thing like you couldn't have any like shorts or skirts that were above the knee, which I just don't really unless they're kind of like full length dresses and I don't really wear things like that.

Another thing was like not to wear like sweatpants.

It was just more like you like had to dress up.

And so I just didn't know what to expect.

And I was also wondering like, OK, when I'm working out, what can I wear to work out?

Because I definitely don't have.

Dresses to work out and and everything that I do have for workouts, at least on the bottom, are kind of like form fitting.

Long story short, you guys, it was so the dress code I felt like was non-existent there.

There were women who were, you know, dressed in like very like traditional Muslim outfits where you're like covered from head to toe.

And some of them you were only seeing their eyes.

Some was just like from the neck down.

They didn't even have headdress.

There were men who were also in.

And forgive me, I don't know what the outfits are called, but there were men in and like almost like long kind of dresses to the ground with their head covered.

But then there were also girls who were dressed like any other American girl that you would see here.

When I went to the gym, actually, also was when I was most worried about because I was wearing leggings and like a big T-shirt.

And I was like, I hope this isn't too much.

And then when I got there, every single girl.

Looking out was in like short biker shorts and a sports bra.

So it was like super, super, super lenient.

One thing is they do have women only workouts.

I went to Barry's and I went to have 45 over there and they had women's only workouts.

So maybe that was for women who were like more conservative or if it just doesn't go along with their values, if they're not like allowed to work out with men.

They did have those, which I noticed.

So that was something that was I was glad that the dress code.

Was a little bit more lenient than some of the things I was seeing online.

One of my biggest takeaways was just how big everything is in Dubai.

Like everything is just bigger than it needs to be.

Almost the mall, for example, that we went to has like 3000 different stores or something you could spend hours upon hours.

Like, I feel like you would need a full week just to see everything that's in the mall.

They also have like an ice skating rink in there and there's a waterfall and there's a trampoline.

Park and there's literally a huge dinosaur in it.

There's a full aquarium in the mall and then it's literally every single store that you could possibly imagine is in this Dubai mall.

It was very nice, but it's it's just so big and then everywhere you look it's like it's almost like they have too many things for the amount of people that are there.

I wonder how some of these businesses are staying alive in a sense because it just seems like there's more things.

Things then you actually need like everything is massive.

The biggest building there is called the Burj Khalifa, which I'm sure if you've like heard anything about Dubai, that's like their big landmark.

That's big, which is also very beautiful.

The architecture in general is very beautiful.

I would also say the city is very clean, which I really enjoyed and I had spent a few days in New York before going to Dubai and New York is not clean.

I would say by any.

Standard and so going from New York to Dubai, it was it was very very clean and it seemed like everything was put together.

There's like not much littering also.

I feel like people just don't leave stuff around.

I don't know if it's a respect thing if there's more people cleaning up, but then I also didn't see people like constantly cleaning up the city.

So maybe it was people just not throwing their stuff on the ground kind of like we do here.

That was one thing that I did really like about it.

I also did.

I feel very safe there and normally when I am traveling to different countries like my safety is kind of a big concern because you just never know and you see stuff all around about like people getting kidnapped, especially women are like put into like human trafficking and I would be lying to you if I would say that that's something that I don't always have in the back of my mind is just to be aware of my surroundings and be super safe.

Dubai is a place that felt really safe.

To me like I I felt like I could kind of walk around by myself and there were days where like Dre had basketball games and I was just kind of walking around the city by myself and I did feel really safe.

It seems like their laws are pretty strict there and so maybe that is just something that people just stay in line because if you do mess up then there are major consequences to pay which brings me to one thing that was surprising.

To me was that you get like the speeding tickets there and like running a red light ticket in Dubai is actually insane so there's not a lot of police like on the road like you know obviously in America we have police that are like camped out and if you speed past them then you get pulled over here that was not the situation at all.

They have cameras like all over and at the different roads and then some cars actually have.

Like a speed radar kind of built into the car so if you go over I think it's like there there were different variations of like what considered speeding but the highest miles per hour or kilometers per hour was like a hundred kilometers per hour and if you go over 118 or 119 kilometers per hour then you immediately get a ticket and it was like a thousand dollar ticket so that is one thing where like people.

Drive pretty aggressively there but they're not like you don't see that one random car that's just going you know like a hundred fifty miles an hour down the highway like you you just don't see that because they're so strict about speeding the biggest one also was running a red light if you run a red light in Dubai the guy said that it could be up to thirty thousand dollars for the ticket so people are not running red lights like that is one thing that you cannot do unless you want a super speed ticket.

Super hefty fine and then it it was something like it it adds so many points to your license that you're like really close to basically like getting your license taken away so super super strict on the driving laws there one thing that it to me wasn't so great about the city is it's so much city and we were there for two weeks and it I was starting to get depressed honestly and I didn't really understand why because you know.

Anybody I feel like would be grateful to be over there it's very beautiful like I said very beautiful very clean like there's so much to do so much to see beautiful buildings it's not but for me personally man made things only excite me or make me happy like to a certain extent there comes a point time where I'm just like okay cool saw it I'm ready to go home and I think for me it was just like not a lot of nature.

Obviously there's.

There's palm trees and there's aquariums and there's different things but everything just felt manufactured or like man made to me like even the trees have lights around them and there's always just like music and lights and and the fountains that there would be there was this like found show that's like very similar to Vegas there but it's it's just like constant like lights and music and water shooting up into the air and it's not there's like.

Not a sense of peace around.

It and obviously you guys know like I live in Texas and I live in a very like I don't know if rural rural is the right word but there's a lot of like greenery there's literally my whole backyard is the woods basically like I live in a forest I'm just like constantly seeing you know like trees and greenery and and hawks flying around and a random fox will like come into my backyard every once in a while and so I think after a while.

It was just too much city too much too much manufactured things to me and I know there's the desert there we went to the Dubai miracle garden which was nice it was like a lot of flowers and I just I really enjoyed that because you could just like smell I just I just felt like I could smell nature because that was also another thing that was bothering me so much oh my gosh every place that you walk into you get smacked in the face by.

Like cologne or perfume or like some scent and it is so overwhelming you're just constantly getting smacked in the face by like perfume or cologne and I at some point just wanted some fresh air like I just wanted to smell nature and I didn't get a lot of that the last couple days that we were there we went to the miracle garden and then we went to the beach and you know did some fly boarding and different things like that and that definitely gave me a sense of like being outside and being more grounded.

But it's a lot of city it's a lot of manufactured things and even where we were staying which was on the palm is a manufactured island like it's a human made island where you can I don't know you guys can look it up it looks like a palm tree it's just not and I think that was the biggest thing too when I was looking into Dubai and like things to do a lot of people were saying is like it's a great city but there's not that much authenticity to the city and I would agree with that.

In a sense like a lot of the things that you see in Dubai are things that you can see in other places kind of around the world which makes it really cool it's kind of like Vegas on steroids but it's a lot cleaner than Vegas there's not as much you know there's not like people in Spider-Man costumes running around Dubai it is a lot of smoking though too there's a lot of people who smoke cigarettes and do hookah out there so that was something that I wasn't enjoying is like smelling the

smoke and smelling the perfume the other thing that made me a bit sad was the amount of stray cats that were there and in general I felt like people and I could be wrong but there's a sense that people like they saw the stray cat but they almost more so treated them as like squirrels than pets you know like you see a squirrel and you just let it be like you don't feed it you just kind of ignore it whatever I was always the one who

was like dropping to the ground and like petting the cat there was this one cat actually it upset me so much he was so skinny was not doing well was limping and it was actually outside the place where Dre was playing basketball and he was crying he was just like walking around it could tell he was like kind of asking humans for food and literally nobody was doing anything for him and so I ran over to one of the stands and bought this like chicken hot dog so I could feed

the cat because he he wasn't doing well he needed something and if I were here I would have known a place to call or I would have you know taken him and put him in my own car and taken him to the vet or whatever I felt so hopeless I did not know what to do so I like fed him and gave him some love and I I just hope that he did well but there was a lot of instances where I was running into stray cats there was an there was another instance where I saw like 13 of them and I'm hoping that

somebody was feeding them there was like 13 kind of living in a colony but it seemed like people either it's either it's part of their life to where they're like oh this is fine there's just a lot of cats here that are kind of like a squirrel or a bunny or whatever and they just run around but to me it felt like there wasn't a lot of people who cared about them and obviously I care about them to an extreme but that was something that made me kind of sad but best believe that I was

petting all of the cats Dre was getting annoyed at a certain way he's like you can't save them all and I'm like I know because if I would have I would have come back with about 30 stray cats and I think that my cats would not have been happy about that the last thing too that was really surprising to me was things were actually cheaper there like cheaper than the states and I think the biggest thing for me that was cheaper was food delivery service there was this app that we were using called Talabat and

everything was like my meals were so much less expensive than they would be in the states and I think a big reason for that is they don't have as many like hidden costs as we do in America which is something that I feel like we need to chill out about like the tipping the extra service charge plus like tax this that that like there wasn't all those things it was like here's your meal here's the delivery fee and that's it and there's not there's not really much tipping that goes on over there as well there was a lot of times that we were even at

dinner and we would give the person our card to you know pay for our dinner and there wasn't even a line where you could give somebody a tip so we had to ask them like how can we tip you and a lot of times we just had to give the people cash because it's normal there to just pay for what your service was and not tip like not have to add all these different extra charges so it was something that I was expecting to buy to be quite expensive but it was

actually seemed cheaper than in America so those are my initial reactions to the city I had a really good time two weeks is a bit long if I were to go back I don't think I would need to spend two weeks there but I'm also somebody who likes to vacation in places where I can go on hikes and go into nature a bit more and the desert to me is not as naturey as I would like

one

other thing that I was not expecting and the first time I heard it it actually scared the

shit out of me was multiple times during the day they pray over there and I knew that about

obviously their religion and the culture but I didn't know that they blasted it like through

the city so I remember the first day I was there I had jet lag terribly I wasn't sleeping it was

6 a.m. and I still wasn't asleep and I hear this like like some sort of hum through the city and

it's in a language that I don't recognize and it scared me half to death and I woke up Dre and I

was like what is that because I don't know you're just not used to that anything that you hear in

America that's like going throughout the city is like a tornado warning or something it's like

something bad and he was like oh it's just a prayer it's fine and then I listened to it so

it it does happen multiple times a day I think on the weekend it's a little bit less but then

at certain points I feel like I was hearing the the prayer like five times a day and it's about 15

minutes and then it shuts off and some people would stop and pray but we I was also out when

we would hear it and people would just continue walking so it's not like everybody drops to the

ground and starts praying just where they are but they do have like where you would see a restroom

there's also like a prayer room right next to it that people can go into so respect for that

the first time I heard it I was not I was not expecting it and it scared me startled me so

yeah I've also always heard from people that in Dubai essentially like PDA is illegal like a man

woman can't like kiss in public so we didn't have that much time obviously like Dre at a basketball

tournament and and the time that he was playing basketball we didn't really get to do much of

anything so we really only had like three days to kind of explore and and have fun in Abu Dhabi

the mosque and if you go to and supposedly it's very beautiful um but men and so women do have to

cover up and they have to put the thing on their head as well like cover your hair um if you take

a photo together a man and a woman can't be touching even if it's your spouse you can't be

touching um and so that was something and we didn't go to Abu Dhabi so we were fine like Dre

hold hands and stuff but I think in general you might be right though you didn't see a lot of PDA

you didn't see a lot of men kind of like messing with women in public but it's not like you would

get arrested for it I think because I even thought about that after after one of Dre's games he came

over like to the sideline and I was like excited for the win so I like smacked his

butt you know that would just be a normal thing I was just like yeah and like and then and then I

I was like oh wait because the royal family was actually coming to these games and Dre knows one

of the women who are in the royal family who like I don't know how to exactly say it who like

governed Dubai and I was like wait I don't know if I was allowed to do that you know what I mean

that was one thing that I it it made me think twice but obviously here I would I wouldn't care

I was just like I was hyped I was like

you know smacked him one thing that was funny though is um Dre Dre and Dwight Howard both met

um two women from the the family that again I I'm I feel bad I don't know exactly the title but

like the royal family and when they took a photo Dwight put his hand on one of on both of the

ladies backs and I don't think you're allowed to do that actually because like because they are

like when the women

from that family approach you like if you want to shake their hand they have to be the ones to

initiate it one last thing that was very different than I feel like we have here

whoever is in charge again like the I think chic I hope I'm not I hope I'm not wrong

there's these men there's four men's photos that are everywhere like in the gym the four men like

massive photos of them are on the wall they're on billboards there and that's like the most

like their government so basically think if if every restaurant you went in it's like Joe Biden's

photo is in there on the wall it that was literally everywhere in the hotels that we

were staying at these these four men's photos were on the wall and it's the same men it's the

same photo of each of them and and they're everywhere that was something also that at

first I was like who are these guys and then you figure out like there's the main one then there's

the the second tier and then the two others sometimes it would only be two sometimes it

would be all four

but it's literally in every business it was so interesting but I was like that's hilarious

because if if like Biden or Trump's photos were in businesses could you imagine like how many

people would be like vandalizing it because we're so divided here with our with our politics um

but yeah those people are everywhere so it seems like there's either a certain level

there's a certain level of respect and authority in that country that everybody just abides by

let me know in comments if you guys have

any questions or if you have any questions or if you have any questions or if you have

anything that I should have mentioned about the country all right you guys so the NBA just

announced that Stefan versus Sabrina will happen as a part of all-star Saturday night in Indianapolis

on February 17th Curry the NBA's all-time three-point king will take on the reigning

WNBA three-point shootout queen and single season record holder the stage is set I know that we saw

this teased on social media but I

am so excited for this and we've talked about it a little bit before basically about how the skill

in the NBA and the skill in the WNBA is not that far off when it comes to straight fundamentals as

far as you know shooting ball handling where the NBA players take that next level up is their

athletic ability for this three-point competition we will have Steph with a men's ball rack obviously

five balls at each spot with money balls and Sabrina with a men's ball rack and Sabrina with a

women's ball rack and she will be shooting from the WNBA three-point line I am so excited about

this for many reasons firstly I think Sabrina can win because I think the playing field is even here

one of the things that WNBA players focus on is shooting ability when you don't have as much

athleticism as the men do you are forced to level up your game when it comes to fundamentals and

WNBA players and college women's basketball players have proven time and time again that

fundamentally they are just as sound as the men and also for a three-point contest it could be

any given day like being a shooter myself there are some days that you're on there are some days

that you're just not feeling it and I think with a three-point competition the whole strategy

behind a three-point contest is to see how quickly you can get into rhythm because if you're not

feeling it you're not going to be able to get into it because a lot of shooters including Steph

including Sabrina including any of the best shooters that you can think of are streaky when you feel in

rhythm that's why they could they call it a heat check they you know when when a three when someone's

hitting like five three-pointers in a row and then they shoot the next one and it's maybe like a wild

three-pointer that's that's your heat check and that's what you need for a three-point competition

is to see how quickly you can get into the streak how

quickly you can get into this rhythm and I'm so excited to see it I will be in Indianapolis on

Saturday night to watch this in person and so I will definitely let you guys know what the

atmosphere is like if it seems like more people are rooting for Steph or more people are rooting

for Sabrina and I think that she's got it she's been under the big lights before I think this is

also such a win for the WNBA because as I've talked about in previous videos I think the key

is to build up individual players and I think putting her on a stage up against an NBA player

and showing that she can compete and I surely hope that she comes out like on her a game and

she does really well but showing that she can compete at this level is something that will

just elevate obviously her brand and obviously elevate the WNBA in the same light like I

mentioned competitions like this is kind of like anyone's game and I've actually beaten Steph

before in a free throw shooting competition so if little me who was never a WNBA player who was

never as good as Sabrina can beat Steph Curry in shooting free throws because he was having an off

day I know that she could beat him as well and you know what she honestly might be able to beat him

even at the top of his game I would put these two on the same playing field so I'm really excited

I'm really excited to see this so it says Curry will shoot from the three-point line the NBA

three-point line with me

basketballs Sabrina will shoot from the WNBA three-point line with WNBA basketballs

at stake bragging rights and lots of cash for charity Curry's eat learn play non-profit and

Sabrina's si20 foundation will receive a donation from the NBA and the WNBA for participating every

shot they make 1,000 for regular threes 2,000 for money balls and 3,000 for deeper threes

for nearly from nearly 30 feet we'll bring a donation to state

farm to the NBA foundation to support economic empowerment in the black community it also makes

me think about other athletic competitions or sports where you can have men and women at the

highest level compete and it's actually competitive like like one that comes to mind that I know about

is in pool like billiards the top man in the world and top woman in the world are actually like it's

competitive if they play yeah or or like uh I don't know that it's a sport but like poker like

there's a poker there are women that make it to the final table right I don't think a woman has

ever won the world series of poker but they've been at the final table like not that it's a sport but

or even something that came to mind is like I don't know mini golf there's no reason why a man

would be better than a woman at mini golf right like just like just the putting yeah well I think

the only thing that separates a lot of these things is when it comes down to like strength

and athleticism where yeah if you're shooting like

if you're shooting all mid-range a woman can shoot just as well as man like I don't you know

what I mean it's it's the only way they get a leg up is the further back that you go and shooting is

one of those things also where it like doesn't take an insane amount of strength like I can

shoot nba threes it doesn't take an insane amount of strength to like shoot really far but I think

you know maybe if you talk about tennis if it was like accuracy maybe it's not

maybe women can't hit as hard as some of the

the pro guys but you know accuracy or like hitting a certain spot or like I wonder the

skills challenge for example on all-star Saturday night that could be something where

I feel like the girls could hang you know also the only the only thing where it is maybe like

running from here to there but that's just like the tiniest little sprint it's mostly about like

the the passes and the shooting and whatever I feel like that would be

another thing maybe but maybe they start implementing that you know and the next

topic where we are going to talk about what if Sabrina wins if Sabrina wins this shootout

I bet they're going to throw a WNBA player into the skills challenge next year I feel like they

should I mean if we're talking about ways to elevate the WNBA and the NBA kind of being that

parent company that is helping them why wouldn't you and it's also interesting too because

there isn't many we've talked about this before there isn't many rivalries in the NBA right now

to where you get so excited it's like two guys that hate each other two guys that are

really gunning for the same thing and it's like who's gonna win you know we don't have that

throw a woman in the mix and it's like we got something there for the pure fact that it's like

like boys versus girls you know that's like no you're right like it's like automatically we care

it's automatic rivalry that's been started at the beginning of time so it's exciting I don't know

it's exciting obviously you know with football we don't have a women's league so it doesn't make so

much sense to throw it in there there's not that many like MLBs the same thing but this is a sport

where we do so why not now it's time to spill the tea with Moby T recently a clip went viral of

Michael Porter jr. on the pivot podcast and he was

talking about the WNBA and their salaries and what he thinks that they should do in order to get

more viewers and essentially get paid more but let's first check out the clip I see from both

sides I know these females want to get paid more and they're very talented but so is so is a famous

ping-pong player they're just as talented as a like the best ping-pong player is just as talented

as a basketball player that doesn't mean they're going to get paid the same because it's because

they play ping-pong it's what the people want to watch you know what I mean so as much as I

understand females wanting the same treatment as as men basketball players is is it's a different

sport people they're not packing out the arenas obviously their TV deals aren't the same so as

much as I advocate for women and kind of the equality of the respect of their craft and all

those things I mean you can't pay them the same thing you know

I do feel like they should there there should be a little way to make a little bit more money for

them because they are very talented yeah I think the I think the big thing um obviously when you're

thinking about negotiations labor unions and different things like that I don't believe there's

any woman that believes she should be paid as a man gets paid it's more about the revenue share

it's more about the percentage and I think those things play into it and then the other side of it

is treatment you know within their own or

their own organizations like they're never like they don't it's not as exciting no it's it's not as

exciting as exciting basketball yeah you're not we got a load of rims I would watch a girl coming

down the lane on another I would watch that they need to lower actually I think in general Ryan

Clark put it a bit more eloquently than Michael Porter Jr did when he talked about and this is

something that we've talked about as well the women's game is based a lot more around fundamentals

the pure fact that we just don't have the athleticism that men naturally do just like

they just physically have more athleticism they have more speed they have a higher vert they have

better agility um then women do just physiologically and so we lean more into the skill side where

if you appreciate the game of basketball then you will also appreciate the the women's game because

they have great basketball which also Michael Porter Jr said it's a it's a better basketball game

than the men however for the casual fan it might not be as exciting because someone who doesn't care

about a great play that's being run and how this girl just you know came off of two screens caught

the ball one dribble step back into a three-pointer and they they don't care that much about that they

would rather see some guy break someone's ankles and then go dunk on them that's the casual fan

that you're trying

hit when you talk about how many people are watching games, how many butts are in seats,

et cetera. One point that Ryan made that I am just not that educated about is the revenue shares

within the WNBA and how much the women are making as compared to how much the league is making

itself. He talked about that. And I, and I guess that that is something that the players are

fighting for. I, I don't know enough. I would have to go and, and look up some of these numbers and

see what he's actually talking about. But if that is something that they're not getting pair paid a

fair wage to how much revenue is coming in fair, that makes sense. And I, and they should be

getting paid. I think where Michael Porter jr. Shot himself in the foot is the comment about

lowering the rims. We need to dead this conversation period. I think it is one of the

worst arguments for women's basketball for a multitude of reasons, but I'll give you my

reasons. First of all, it makes the game less accessible for girls, youth, just women of all

ages, girls of all ages for basketball. When I think about where I played basketball growing up,

obviously played on a bunch of organized teams, but I also played at the park. I also played in

my backyard. I also played at this random,

random gym when I, you know, could find an hour of court time. So I could put up shots. I also

played at this church gym. I also played at the YMCA. I also played at 24 hour fitness. If we talk

about, we lower the rim for women's basketball and then leave the men's at the same 10 foot height.

We're talking about revamping every single park in the country. We're talking about revamping

every single gym so that the girls have an accessible hoop to practice on.

And some people have come back to me with the argument. It was like, Oh, well shooting on a 10

foot rim as compared to shooting on a nine foot rim or whatever you people want to lower the rim

to because nine foot to also be fair is not going to make the world of difference of how crazy a

woman is dunking on somebody else. It's really not one foot. Isn't going to make that much

different. If you want to lower it to seven and a half, maybe then you can get some like

windmill between the leg poster dunks. You're not going to get it at nine feet, but lowering it,

to nine feet. And then, Oh, but sometimes the girls have to practice on a 10 foot rim because

that's the only thing that's available. It doesn't make sense. And you can't just say like,

so first of all, that's why lowering the rim to me makes absolutely zero sense. Unless you want to

really revamp every single basketball hoop in the country, which isn't, is not going to happen

ever going to happen. Um, secondly, to my point, I don't know why people think

lowering it to nine feet is going to automatically create some insane dunks by women.

If you're the dunks that people think are exciting, which by the way, you don't even

get very often in NBA games. You get it at the NBA dunk contest in an NBA basketball game. Yes,

we see a few dunks, but the ones that you guys are talking about where there's a poster, there's a

reason why a poster dunk is such a massive highlight online. It's a massive highlight

often. Like people aren't getting postered every single night in an NBA game. People aren't going

between their legs on a breakaway layup every single night in an NBA game. People aren't doing

three sixties on a breakaway layup. And so lowering the rim to nine feet, there's only a handful of

women who can dunk period. You lower the rim to nine feet. Somebody like me who played college

division one basketball at five, eight still probably isn't touching the rim. So you're not

going to get that many girls who are doing some.

Crazy thing on a nine foot rim. Again, if you want to talk about lowering it to something like

eight feet, maybe, but we really think because it's at eight feet, like the argument would be

then you lower it to eight feet and then guys would be like, well, it's not that impressive

anymore. Cause it's just a low rim. Like that's the only reason they can like, there's always

going to be this like weird argument from men. If you lower it, then it's like, oh, well now they

can dunk. Cause we lowered it. Now we just don't know. So it's like, oh, well now they can dunk.

Like it's, we have a smaller ball. We have a shorter three point line. We don't need any more

handicaps for the sport. Um, I appreciate him for being brave enough to share how he felt.

I don't think that all of his points were wrong. I think the main point of

they don't have as many butts in seats. They don't play as many games. They don't have the

TV rights that NBA does. Like they are not generating as much revenue. So it's hard to

say like, give them,

the same contract as the max NBA player. I fully understand that. Um, I think there was just like

a couple missteps. However, there was a huge outrage from women everywhere about how misogynistic

he sound, how he wasn't supporting the WNBA. Um, how he said females, like when did females

become like a bad word to say? And I even, I even felt that a little bit in one of my

previous videos where I said girls, but I refer to my friends as girls. Like I just like the word

girl, women, female, to me is interchangeable. It just means the sex of us, like girls, women,

like it to me, that's just something so small. It's like, why are we getting angry about that?

Like really that to me makes women just look super sensitive.

Like if I'm going to pick apart something, I'm going to get, I'm going to think that his comment

about lowering the rims because he wants to see someone post or something is the stupidest thing

that he said. I'm not going to say because he said female once and then he said women later.

So I think we also, as women, as people advocating for our sport need to do better about not picking

some, like really you're going to pick that battle as that he said female, like let's not cry. Let's

not, let's not cry. Let's not cry. Let's not cry. Let's not cry. Let's not cry. Let's not cry.

Let's not cry over that. Let's look at the bigger picture. So I'm glad that he's having this

conversation. Also somebody who wears a WNBA player shoe. Like I also told you guys like

Dre wears Sabrina shoes as well. I think that that's really cool. And I think that all these

little things are ways to elevate the WNBA. Let's dead the conversation about lowering the rim

though. Like it has to be stopped. There's no world where that makes sense. And there's no

world that if we even tried it and gave it a couple of years, we wouldn't be able to do it.

It would make the game any better. The game's growing, the skills growing. We have Sabrina now

in the NBA all-star Saturday weekend. We have all of these fantastic college basketball players

coming up. We have women, women's college basketball, breaking records on their viewership.

You know, when we had a South Carolina going up against LSU at like it had bigger numbers than

the NBA games that night, the game is growing. Let it grow organically. Let these women,

elevate themselves and their brands and how they play. Let them start, you know, like Caitlin

Clark, we talked about shooting threes, like Steph Curry. That's exciting. These poster dunks that

you're going to get, you know, once a game possibly is that's not the most exciting thing.

So, but I appreciate that people are continuing to have this conversation. And I think that us

as women need to not jump down.

People's throats for stuff. That's stupid. Like, like saying female, you guys, it is Superbowl

week. And obviously, unless you've been living under a rock, you know, that the Kansas city

chiefs are going up against the 49ers. But I feel like the narrative has turned into Travis Kelsey

and Taylor Swift going up against Brock Purdy, who ironically enough, where's the number 13,

which is Taylor Swift's lucky number. So there's been a lot of memes and everything about that.

I,

this video went up this week. Obviously Taylor was just at the Grammys and she broke the record for

the most winningest artists to, to get album of the year award with four.

Travis Kelsey was asked about it at media day. Um, he responded saying that she's unbelievable.

Now I need to bring some hardware back. But when I saw this video, I ran straight to the comments.

This was on the NFL's official Instagram page. And I feel like as much as,

we have seen and heard about Taylor and Travis, we have also seen and heard from the fans who are

royally pissed that they have to keep hearing about this freaking relationship. And there seems

to be two sides to the story in these comments, definitely paint the picture. So I'm just going

to read some of them. Michael Lohr said, hope the chiefs win. So you all keep complaining.

Someone said, Hmm, why didn't she mention you in any of her speeches? Someone said, imagine having

such a cold,

dead heart that this bothers you. I think, and this is literally going back and forth in the

comments. I think I speak for all Americans. When I say we are sick and tired of Taylor Swift.

Someone said, as much as I can't stand the chiefs, they are going to win the super bowl. If it wasn't

scripted, they wouldn't be there. It's sad to think the NFL is the new WWE. Can't believe I'm

saying this as an Eagles fan, but please for the love of God, 49ers win this game. And I think from

both sides, this is what we're seeing. We're seeing people say, if you're hating on this,

you're just a misogynist.

You don't, you're, you don't want to see other people happy. And on the other side, we're saying,

we're seeing people say like, this is sports. Stop showing this so much. We don't care about

their relationship on and on. I think the truth is actually somewhere in the middle here. I don't

think everybody who hates seeing the Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift news are really just cold hearted

people who don't want to see people happy. I don't think it's that extreme. And I also,

um, don't think that some people are wrong by saying that we're seeing them more than we've

ever seen any celebrity relationship. And the thing with Taylor Swift this year is you can give

her so much praise as she's really had in 2023, one of the most successful years careers. I think

of any celebrity, any music artists that we've seen, you could say since Michael Jackson,

um, but she really has been everywhere. She has a tour. She's put out a new album. She's

re-released old albums. She has a movie that's in theaters. So she's like hit that demo. She's

at every award ceremony and now she's in sports. Now she's all over the NFL's Instagram page. Now

she's not only on, you know, e-news, but she's on ESPN. She's on Fox sports. She's on this. And now

quite frankly, she's even on the news news. Like she's on Fox news. She's like,

she's off conservative. She's off liberals. She's literally everywhere, everywhere you turn.

It is something about Taylor Swift. And I'm a fan of Taylor Swift. I love her music. And I'm

like saying like, wow, I'm really seeing her everywhere and I'm not hating on her for it.

And I'm also not hating on these different outlets,

as well, because if you look at any of the posts that mentioned Taylor Swift or that mentioned

Travis Kelsey, they have the most engagement, whether you're going on someone's page and

commenting a nasty comment, that's boosting engagement. If there's fighting in the comments

that boost the engagement more than any other thing. So why wouldn't the NFL keep posting about

it? If every time they post about it, they have 5,000 comments talking about her. Why wouldn't

these news outlets ask Travis Kelsey,

ask Patrick Mahomes ask for God's sake, Brock Purdy got asked about Taylor Swift and asked if

he was ready to disappoint her when they win. Why wouldn't you ask these players about it? When

every time you do, it's going to get clicks. So I think a lot of these fans have to realize,

okay, after the Superbowl, whether the, the chiefs win or lose, it's still going to be

talked about. If the chiefs lose and Taylor Swift is crying, it's going to be talking about all this

emotional moment between her and Travis. It's going to be,

you know, Travis going on his podcast, like talking about what they did after and how he's

going to bounce back. And this like, there's still going to be that narrative. It's not going away,

whether the Niners win or not. This is the, the biggest superstar in the world dating somebody

who's on one of the best football teams in the world. If it's scripted or not, I don't know.

I have like my, I don't think that the NFL is like completely scripted.

And they were like, Oh, you know what? Chiefs got to make it. Obviously we've talked about it

before. I think there's natural biases that come with any referee, whether in, in literally any

sport, um, there are certain circumstances when it comes to weather and different fields that

you're playing at, like all of that. I don't think it's scripted to the point of at the

beginning of the season, they said, we got to get the chiefs to the Superbowl, but we'll see

what's happening. But if you guys are so upset and you really think that the 49ers winning is

going to stop,

us talking about Taylor Swift and Travis did like buckle up folks, because this is not Taylor

Swift's not done on tour. She's still has a whole nother year of the heiress tour. She has a new

album dropping in April. And if you, you best believe there's going to be something about

Travis in that album, he's already talked about that. He's heard about it. Like buckle up because

the media wave of these two is like not dropping off anytime soon. The engagement rumors, like we

opened this video,

we're talking about, um, I'm sure that those are going to continue until it actually happens. If

it actually happens, but as long as everything is getting clicks and views the way that it is,

it's going to continue. And so I really, I, I don't care who wins in the Superbowl.

None of my teams are there. I've been out of this, uh, caring about what team wins this year

for a while. Now I want to see a good game. I think it will be a good game and I think it will be

most watched game because not only are you going to have NFL fans who just want to see a good game,

you're also going to have NFL fans who despise Taylor Swift so much that they just want to see

if the 49ers or when we have all these like new bandwagon 49ers fans. And on the flip side,

you have millions and millions of Swifties who love Taylor and are obsessed with Taylor so much

that they just want to see her boyfriend win. So,

it's a highly anticipated Superbowl. It's in Vegas. I'm actually very, very, very glad that

I will be watching this one from home because I don't want to be in the craziness that will be

Vegas for this weekend. Um, but it should be interesting and I don't have a prediction.

I have no clue. We'll see how it goes. But if you're tired of hearing about Taylor and Travis,

um, this definitely won't be the end of it after this week. One point that I didn't make,

Taylor Swift were Doja Cat. It wouldn't be like this. Taylor Swift, actually you can post her

on all these different places because she does have a very clean reputation. She actually is,

when you talk about all of the superstars that we have, she's one of the best role models that we

have, like lover, hater. She's wholesome. She's not doing, she's not doing crazy things. She's

not like giving the devil lap dances and her music videos. You know what I mean?

Like she's, she's more marketable. If it, if it were somebody who's a little bit more extreme,

they're not going to be posting it all the time. They're just not. She's easy. She's easy to love.

She does a lot of things, right? She's super successful and that's it. And it'll, it'll die

down eventually. Like there's only going to be so much that we can care about. We really, no one

should really care this much about anybody else's relationship, but there really is only so much.

That we can care about at some point, you know, we'll move on to the next thing. That's like

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