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Brooklyn Nets<\/a> forward Michael Porter Jr.<\/a> has come under fire from Angel McCoughtry for his recent comments about the WNBA. McCoughtry appeared on Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay<\/a>, where she called out Porter for talking about beating WNBA players when he was in the eighth grade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, congratulations,\u201d McCoughtry said. \u201cYou was dominating against women in the eighth grade. What does he want? Does he want a cookie? You want a medal for that? I think the only thing that should be coming out of a man\u2019s mouth about women is uplifting her.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCoughtry, who made five All-Star, six All-WNBA, and seven All-Defensive teams, appreciated the fact that Porter was playing against women in Missouri growing up. The 39-year-old stated that they do need males to do that, but is puzzled by the forward\u2019s need to make such comments on the Ball in the Family podcast. McCoughtry, frustrated by these comments, then proceeded to take quite a wild shot at NBA players.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the main thing we should be talking about a woman, guess what?\u201d McCoughtry stated. \u201cWhen I got to come and drop 40 and I\u2019m on my f***ing period and I\u2019m bleeding and my stomach hurts and my back hurts, when y\u2019all load manage off a headache. Guess what? Let\u2019s talk about how awesome that is.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s talk about how awesome it is that women, we have these babies and we come back and still dominate sports,\u201d McCoughtry added. \u201c\u2026 Yeah, you can dunk. A lot of us can\u2019t do that. But the awesome things we can do, let\u2019s highlight that. Guess what? We are wives. So, it\u2019s not easy to take care of a husband and kids and come and dominate a sport.\u201d<\/p>\n

The WNBA players and female athletes in general do deserve a lot of credit for competing at the highest level, even with all that\u2019s going on in their personal lives. McCoughtry believes the very best male athletes do give it to them, and it\u2019s only the likes of Porter who don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cKobe [Bryant] don\u2019t say that kind of stuff about us,\u201d McCoughtry said. \u201cHe never did. He only uplifted us and supported us. [LeBron James] don\u2019t talk that kind of stuff. Why the elites don\u2019t talk like that?\u201d<\/p>\n

McCoughtry, who won two scoring titles and made the WNBA\u2019s 25th Anniversary Team, also added that she has beaten a lot of grown men on the court. She did acknowledge, though, that there would be some eighth-grade boys who could beat WNBA players, but not all of them.<\/p>\n

McCoughtry believes Porter might change his outlook if he gets a closer look at how the players operate.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome practice with us,\u201d McCoughtry stated. \u201cI think he needs to see the ins and outs of how hard we do work and how much we do put our bodies through because sometimes they just look through this lens from the outside and they don\u2019t they don\u2019t really see the inside. And I think if he came and spent the day with us, he would have a new appreciation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Time will tell if Porter accepts that offer. Now, to be fair to the 27-year-old, he did make it clear that these conversations need to stop. Porter also revealed the Nets have told him to stop dissing the WNBA, among other things<\/a>. He has ruffled plenty of feathers with all that he has said in the past, like when he once claimed his high school boys\u2019 team could beat the WNBA All-Stars.<\/p>\n

As for McCoughtry, she last played in the WNBA in 2022, but made it clear on The Women\u2019s Hoops Show<\/a> that she hasn\u2019t retired just yet. The two-time Olympic gold medalist is hoping she gets a call from a team.<\/p>\n