not for me, and not for plenty of other people i’d suspect. the first non-Longhorn female hooper who grabbed my attention was seimone augustus, all the way back when she was in HS. her ability, her play style, her swagger- all of it was captivating. if she came out today i think she’d be a star.
for me it’s the same with cc. it’s her play style, her elite vision, he ability to shoot from 25 feet, and to drop 40 on any given night. she has a very watchable play style and she has been promoted like crazy by espn.
now then- at the same time as cc is blowing up, angel reese and her LSU team are also being heavily promoted by espn. that’s a fact. and they even won the national title. so what’s the difference? it’s two simple, obvious things: angel reese’s play style is about as fun to watch as a middle school parochial league, and then she talks a whole bunch of shit, she plays the villain role, then turns around and plays the victim role, then tells everyone how she props up her league just as much as cc does, etc, etc. in other words she’s not fun to watch and her personality is fucking terrible. it has absolutely nothing to do with her race, her gender, or her sexual orientation.