Candice Wiggins was a college star at Stanford, the third pick of the 2008 WNBA draft and a 2011 champion. And at the mountaintop of her basketball career, her sexuality marred the moment.
There is a “very, very harmful” culture running throughout the WNBA, she says, which saw her get bullied during her eight-year career because she is heterosexual.
Wiggins, who last played in the league in 2015, said she retired prematurely to leave a league that she estimated — wildly — is 98 percent lesbian, and which is played in such isolation that it weighs on the people on the court.
“It wasn’t like my dreams came true in the WNBA. It was quite the opposite,” Wiggins said in an extensive San Diego Tribune story published Monday. “… I wanted to play two more seasons of WNBA, but the experience didn’t lend itself to my mental state. It was a depressing state in the WNBA. It’s not watched. Our value is diminished. It can be quite hard. I didn’t like the culture inside the WNBA, and without revealing too much, it was toxic for me. … My spirit was being broken.”
The 30-year-old couldn’t take it anymore — being harassed for being straight and fighting for attention in a league that is starved.
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Landon Baker
“Me being heterosexual and straight, and being vocal in my identity as a straight woman was huge,” Wiggins said. “I would say 98 percent of the women in the WNBA are gay women. It was a conformist type of place. There was a whole different set of rules they [the other players] could apply.”
Wiggins, who played for the Lynx, Shock, Sparks and Liberty, claimed the issues revolve around the lack of attention the league has garnered as the WNBA struggles with ticket sales and TV ratings. For the 2016 season, the WNBA said its average attendance was 7,655 — its highest since 2011.
“There was a lot of jealousy and competition, and we’re all fighting for crumbs,” Wiggins said. “The way I looked, the way I played – those things contributed to the tension.
“People were deliberately trying to hurt me all of the time. I had never been called the B-word so many times in my life than I was in my rookie season. I’d never been thrown to the ground so much. The message was: ‘We want you to know we don’t like you.’ “
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Kayden Moore
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Ethan Collins
hot, i'd love to get pegged by them nappy headed hoes, esp Turasi. i mean i know she looks like a dinosaur but still breddy gud
Jayden Nelson
sucks for her i guess.
Brody Jenkins
"See kids, Lesbians can be just as sexist and oppressive as straight people too!"
Dominic Jones
Damn it feels good to be a lesbian
Charles Reed
The only thing I get from this is either Wiggins is a closet case or people were mean to her because she's a shitty person.
Andrew Cooper
Maybe she shouldn't be so intolerant of other sexualities and she wouldn't be treated so badly
Benjamin Jenkins
"get in the shower bitch...show us your tits...that's right, walk away you penis-sucking ball gargler. go play with some dick"
John Garcia
>"See kids, ('oppressed' ) can be just as oppressive as ('oppressor') people too!"
Insert any group and it will be true. It used to be common sense, now it is considered racist, sexist and homophobic to say people are all alike....just like it's now racist to say all lives matter.
Dominic Brown
>lesbians are misandrist
Color me fucking surprised. Lesbians wanted to kick gay men out the LGBT because according to them gay men aren't oppressed enough.
Isaiah Green
people get mad at you for saying all lives matter because black lives matter was made to protest police brutality against black people ONLY and you're being nosy and annoying trynna get into something that has nothing to do with you you can go ahead and make your own "flip lives matter" if you want , just don't get in the way of black people trying to focus on helping other black people because "W-WHAT ABOUT MEEEEE" but honestly it doesn't even matter, BLM is bullshit since it's overrun by mindless retards and useless white liberals who just wanna walk around the city yelling and breaking shit thinking that's gonna make a difference, there's other movements out there who actually try to educate and give money to black communities but nobody cares about those so...
Jace Sanders
I will send a copy of your blog to the families of the dead cops and dead blacks who have died for your little "movement".
Jeremiah Flores
Does this mean my dream of dunking on then creampie-ing Diana Taurasi is dead?
Elijah Bailey
dare I say, payback time?
checkmate heteros
Andrew Morales
that's just the excuse. In reality they just hate men
Xavier Cooper
I love how you've somehow managed to blame white people for the black lives matters protestors running around destroying everything in their path.
Furthermore, the narrative that's been presented that cops are out there mass murdering black people is a lie.
Brody Jones
Sadly that's the truth but I don't blame them for hating men
Cameron Phillips
No, If I were I would still make that arranged right now
Nolan Mitchell
>8.6 career scoring average >4 teams in 8 years >star
Evan Thompson
8 points a game is pretty good in the WNBA.
Cooper Phillips
What exactly is she bitching about? All she says is that WNBA is full of dykes and that made her depressed. Maybe she implies they called her a bitch, but to be honest she sounds a huge bitch just from her quotes.
Charles Wilson
Butch detected
Julian Ward
Holy fuck ahmed please go back to Syria you're ruining western culture with your inbred shitty religion and people.
Nathaniel Johnson
It was the dykes' fault. They wouldn't let her score because she was vocal about her sexuality.
Christian Evans
She was probably just as annoying as overly faggot faggots.
OMG I'm so straight I love cock. OMG I'm so gay I love pussy. They're both annoying as fuck. If I hear about your sexual preference in conversation I will immediately hate you.
