sue bird apologized after showing up at the Seattle Storm\u2019s preseason game in a bright red cardigan. She wrote, “My bad on the red,” after attending the game against the Portland Fire on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n
Sue Bird and Seattle Storm<\/p>\n
The Storm beat the Portland Fire 91-81 on Wednesday night, and Bird\u2019s post turned a routine preseason appearance into the evening\u2019s sharpest off-court moment. She was drafted first overall by Seattle in the 2002 WNBA draft, then built a r\u00e9sum\u00e9 that includes four WNBA championships and 13 All-Star selections.<\/p>\n
That background is what made the outfit apology land so cleanly. Bird is retired now, but she still carries the team history that made a red cardigan an obvious miss in a building tied to Seattle\u2019s own colors. <\/p>\n
Portland Fire Game Night<\/p>\n
Bird\u2019s post came on Instagram Story, the same channel she used to own the mistake in a single line. The red cardigan stood out because it was the wrong color for the matchup, and she did not try to dress it up any further.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, Bird and Megan Rapinoe announced that they had broken up. They wrote, “After a lot of thought, we’ve made the decision to separate as a couple.” They added, “This hasn’t been an easy decision, but it’s one we’ve made together, with so much love, respect, and care for each other.”<\/p>\n
They also said, “We’ve shared a whole life over the last decade, through big moments and in quiet ones, and that is something we’ll always carry with us.” For Bird, Wednesday night was a small public misstep inside a much more visible stretch of her life, and she handled it with a brief apology instead of turning it into anything larger.<\/p>\n
Bird’s Instagram Story<\/p>\n
The result on the court was straightforward: Seattle won 91-81. Bird\u2019s apology was even simpler, and that is why it stood out \u2014 one line, one color, one mistake, posted before the night could be read any other way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"sue bird apologized after showing up at the Seattle Storm\u2019s preseason game in a bright red cardigan. She…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[88960,34530,1151,5460,39436,1472,99,4388,54442,1596,568,434],"class_list":["post-619983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-apologizes","tag-bad","tag-bird","tag-game","tag-my","tag-red","tag-sports","tag-storm","tag-sue","tag-the","tag-with","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}