WNBA Players Run Off the Court Again Before National Anthem Ahead of Monday Finals Game
For anyone looking for a magic weapon that will make the big, rough, tough Caitlin Clark-hating women who make up the WNBA hurry and scurry like sissies encountering a spider, the solution has been found: play the national anthem.
On Monday, both the Golden State Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream staged the fastest fast breaks of the evening to get off the floor before the anthem was played, making it five games in a row that both teams have fled the floor rather than stand for the anthem.
“Why is this a thing?” a displeased Patricia Babcock McGraw of Outkick wrote in an op-ed on Fox News.
“The only ‘explanation’ we’ve heard is that ‘it’s part of the pregame routine.’ Really? Running off the court, disappearing for 60 to 90 seconds, only to run back onto the court to resume what you were doing right before you ran off? That’s a key part of the game prep? Please,” she wrote.
🚨🇺🇸 Both WNBA Finals teams agree that the national anthem isn’t worth 90 seconds of their time… for the 5th straight game.
Game 5, same routine, with the Dream and Valkyries vanishing into the tunnel before the first note and popping back out once it’s over.
The league that BEGS America to tune in keeps letting its two best teams hide in the locker room while the country’s song plays… and then wonders why people are changing the channel.
Source: Fox / Writer: Daniel
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 27, 2026
“This feels so wrong to me. It feels disrespectful, irreverent to skip out on the anthem. Part of our sports culture in this country is the playing of the national anthem prior to events,” she wrote.
“It’s a tradition, it’s an opportunity for people to come together under one flag and feel united as Americans. It’s an opportunity to honor our country and those who served and died for our freedoms. How can any of that be a bad thing?”
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“But for some reason, the WNBA has decided to stick a lightning rod in the national anthem, too,” she wrote in a column, suggesting the WNBA is unique among sports leagues in its embrace of such self-destructive behavior.
“Without a doubt, the WNBA has gotten more attention than ever lately because of these dumpster fires that inevitably go viral. And while that attention is for, in my opinion, all the wrong reasons, maybe, just maybe, this is all a part of some genius and purposeful marketing plan by the league. A ‘let’s do and say the craziest things possible’ because ‘there is no such thing as bad publicity.’”
DISGUSTING……. For the fifth straight game, players from both teams run off the court, instead of paying respect to our National Anthem.
That’s a lot of empty seats 10 minutes before tip off of a WNBA Finals game — People are tired of these women disrespecting our country. https://t.co/x2ZBD4t6Mj
— HeroOfTheDay (@Hero_OfThe_Day) October 27, 2026
Golden State head coach Natalie Nakase defended the team’s actions, according to Fox News.
“We’re two years in,” Nakase said. “That’s been part of our pregame.”
Asked why that is, Nakase said, “I really don’t know.”
“I understand your question,” she added. “I’m not trying to, you know, not answer your question. It’s just part of our pregame.”
🚨 JUST NOW: President Trump calls for a NATIONAL BOYCOTT of the WNBA after the league refuses to act on the trashy players walkout out on the USA National Anthem
“It’s a big deal going on. They LEAVE THE COURT when the national anthem’s playing. The NFL did that for a while, they stopped because people stopped WATCHING. You should do the same thing with women’s basketball unless they [fix it].”
NFL ratings tanked during the kneeling era, and the league changed course!
The WNBA players get rich off America then disrespect it.
Hit them where it hurts and TUNE THEM OUT
The WNBA should be ripped apart.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 23, 2026
For those interested in which team without Caitlin Clark won the latest game, Golden State defeated Atlanta and the hapless Angel Reese 64-55 to lead the Finals three games to two. The sixth game is in Atlanta on Thursday.
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