Virtually everything that is wrong with our left-leaning part of the country can be found in the supposed basketball league.

How do you make a WNBA player run fast? Play the U.S. national anthem; that’s how. The players for the two teams presently in the finals came out for fan adulation and then quickly ran back into the locker room when the threat of some rockets’ red glare became too dangerous. I didn’t know that they knew how to run.

So why do the ladies vanish when the country that makes them modestly rich and famous has its favorite song played on the PA system? While their collective IQ seems lower than the final score, they actually thought this one out. If they stay, they have two bad options. One is to respect the song, flag and country, and on the left side of the derangement spectrum, that is really bad. Alternatively, they can go full Colin Kaepernick and kneel and then look really bad in the eyes of many of those who pay for the tickets that fund their league (losing around $40 million a year). So their third alternative is to vanish and let the people at home and in the stands try to guess what they are doing.

Just for a wee bit of perspective. Real basketball players in the NBA have an average salary of $12.8 million per year. That number is hyper-inflated, but it is so because of the agreement between the rich but terrified owners and the aggressive players' association. Years ago, they agreed that 51 percent of the dough made by the league had to go to the players. Unlike football and baseball, where you have relatively large rosters, basketball does not have an overflowing bench. So a few years ago I read about mediocre talents making $5 million or more because the money had to be spent. For comparison, the ladies average $550,000 per year. That is around the amount that a guy selling beers at........

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