On the 221st day of Griner’s detention, a reporter asked current LSU coach Malkey about Griner. The two have had a strained relationship since Greiner left Baylor, but some things should be bigger than the feud.
“I just want to hear your thoughts on the Britney Griner situation,” the reporter said. “I don’t think I’ve seen anything from you about it. Just…”
“And you won’t,” Malkey replied.
After months of silence, that was all Malkey had to offer. With a microscope, decency could not have been detected.
In all my years of covering the emotional, confrontational, and sometimes crude world of sports, I’ve never encountered a more disturbingly bittersweet moment. I have seen cases of anger. I have seen violence. However, it is reprehensible that a college coach who recruits teenagers with the promise of family ties and lifelong bonds should reject his own coach in dire circumstances.
Malkey ignored an opportunity to show basic, superficial compassion. It took more effort to be concise and lighthearted than to provide such a simple thing. I don’t want to comment further, but that’s my hope. ”
It wasn’t the time to get hung up on the little things. But like many famous college coaches, Malkey can’t contain her narcissism: she’s too busy thinking about herself to meet her in the moment. It seems Malkey is still angry with Griner. she said she was gay Revealed what Baylor told her before the 2013 WNBA Draft to keep her sexuality a secret. she wrote more In her 2014 memoir, In My Skin, she talks about Malkey and school. She intended that part of her story to illustrate her struggle with identity while attending a private Baptist school in Texas. I didn’t like how it was portrayed. They never made amends.
Baylor in 2012 won the national championship With a 40-0 record, Mulkey called Griner “the face of women’s basketball.” In her decade since then, Griner has gone on to have an illustrious professional career and has developed her reputation as one of the most dominant post-her players in the history of her sport. Mulkey has 658 career wins, a .857 winning percentage, and has won her national title three times. She is entering her second year of her $23.6 million contract with LSU. This is a landmark deal in the ongoing battle for fair compensation in women’s sport.
Greiner and Malky were magically together. They stayed outstanding apart. And Greiner was arrested for a mistake many athletes may have made in trying to play abroad and manage pain and inflammation. Her freedom turned into a political custody battle between feuding nations. rice field.
Dawn Staley, who was Griner’s coach at USA Basketball, doesn’t go a day without sending out social media messages and doing media interviews about Griner’s release.On the same day, the day Malky punted on Mankind, current Baylor coach Nikki Colin said: talked for almost five minutes straight about the grinder. Collen spent most of his time dismissing Griner as criminal and pleading with those who didn’t think about the dynamics of the world. And in the most subtle way, Colin hinted at the intolerance and bigotry behind the public dismissal of a 6-foot-9 black gay woman.
“Frankly, it’s not my job to judge,” Collen said. “I don’t see it as my job. As a Christian, I think it’s about giving grace. It’s about loving each other, loving each other. Knowing BG, etc.” know She’s a big kid around her. To know her is to love her. Honestly, she’s one of those people who radiate her joy and give her high fives and hugs. It’s easy to say if you don’t know her, but do all her sisters say the same thing? I suspect it feels different. ”
For four years, Griner was more than just a big kid for Mulkey. She was her big kid, a famous All-American, and the best player in the country. As far as Griner is not without their beef, Malkey is 60 and makes a living teaching young people to manage conflict and work together. You might win 1,000 by preaching harmony. But given the chance to work through her discord and show her heartfelt empathy, for the first time she behaved worse than the spoiled freshman who left her home.
‘Keep that in mind when choosing a school,’ says former Baylor star Queen Egbo wrote in a tweet.
Said Chloe Jackson, another former Baylor player: “And I say it again. SILENCE SPEAKS VOLUMES, smh.
If Malky was too emotionally conflicted to express herself, she should step up to the mic and try again. Her vengeful control clarifies whatever makes her human, not her freak.
Malkey isn’t the first coach to distance himself from a star player. But assuming what people shared is real, hard times should bring people together. The player who gave Marquee her second win needs all the support she can get. If a former coach cannot rise to the occasion, there is no credibility as a leader.
