Andre Iguodala has been getting blasted by Aerial Powers for the good part of 24 hours after he took to Twitter as he was watching the Washington Mystics defeat the Connecticut Sun just to show love to a player on the winning team.
But when he turned to Twitter to give a shoutout to an impressive player, he failed to name Aerial Powers and instead used only her jersey number.
Powers, whose Mystics are the reigning champions, took issue with it and started a deadly back and forth on Iguodala’s lack of identification.
Powers scored a career-high 27 points on 10-of-14 shooting while hitting 4 of 6 from deep and added four rebounds, three assists and two steals.
Iguodala was impressed.
Powers tweeted a few hours later to “put some respect on my name.”
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Powers further explained why Iguodala’s lack of identification when it came to complimenting her game meant in the bigger picture.
Powers wrote:
“Women across the world are fighting for equality in every facet of the word. The WNBA is over being marginalized. Women are over being marginalized.
“The NBA players are our brothers. They, more than anybody, know our fight and struggle to have the same recognition, visibility and opportunity as they do. So when you say a statement about our gameplay that was meant as a compliment but don’t include the persons name, it takes away credibility from them and their hard work on the court and makes it seem “less than.” The same humans under my pics and tweets with bad remarks will grow up to think this same way. This is the problem.
“We already have enough #28s in the world that think just because I was given a “compliment” I should be grateful. Women are done having grace, giving deference, feeling validated just because a man said so. So to all you #28s we, women, are done with taking the crumbs! Give us our meals and make room at the table! Let this documentary do the rest of the talking.”
Iguodala has left the entire situation completely alone as he likely knows he can’t win this battle by responding.
