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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2063161, member: 199"] He is also the USA Olympic coach and has spent a lot of time with a lot of WNBA players on and off the court, as well as keeping up with all the players who have moved to the WNBA from UConn. Wiggins was a role player, she might have been much more than that had she not gotten injured, but her career was as a journeyman role player, for 4 different teams in 8 years. She was a star rookie, but that was one year. The issue that we deal with in our society is one that is impossible to 'judge' and pretty impossible to codify in law as we have found out - bullying and harassment and 'hostile environment' in the workplace are impossible to define because they hinge on the perception of the 'victim' as much as on the actions or words of others. We can try to define 'reasonable' standards but judges and juries have had issue with those definitions. It really is difficult. One thing that does stand out to me is that Wiggins is claiming this is a vast conspiracy that is league wide - she played on four teams with four different coaches and management structures and as far as I can tell she felt they were all equally hostile to her. That would be the equivalent of the Miami NFL player having experienced the same bullying on three other NFL teams over the course of eight years, and at that point he would have had a much harder time being believed and his own personality and phobias would have been questioned much more closely. And while I don't want to suggest she shouldn't have played in the WNBA, if she was having this fabulous time overseas while being properly compensated I am surprised she didn't just take her summers off instead of working for peanuts. She was not a 'star' and her absence would not have created the publicity that DT sitting out a season did. Because she mixes up her 'personal story' of bullying and harassment by 'the lesbians' with her whining about the state of the WNBA and denigrating the league as a the longest lived and most viable women's profession team sport league it all starts sounding like a whine. And that we have 20 years of the league and no one else has hinted at this vast conspiracy just makes it more difficult to give it much credence. Again with an individual team, maybe, We see it in college situations where coaches get fired, and I suspect some players who have left UConn, could have termed their reason as because their being 'bullied' while the coaches and other players would have said it was because they weren't down with the program and putting in the necessary effort. Again 'perception'. [/QUOTE]

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