The prevailing comment on WNBA content for a quarter of a century has been “who cares?”
The 2020 election is yet another example of that put-them-in-their-place remark ringing untrue. Because the WNBA players’ activism could be what lands Georgia a Democratic Senator for the first time since 2004.
When WNBA players collectively threw their support behind Rev. Raphael Warnock for Georgia’s special election in August, he was polling at 9 percent. Now, the first-time Democratic candidate has earned a spot in a January runoff against the candidate who dragged the WNBA into the race to begin.