Angel McCoughtry, like many female athletes, did not appreciate the words of Draymond Green who has came out and doubled down on his claims that female athletes have only “complained” about the pay gap and not done any leg work to get things going.
The 5-time WNBA All-Star looked directly in the camera and asked Draymond has he done his research at all before he came out with his statement.
“Draymond, have you done your research?! Have you asked us questions,” Angel said Thursday during a USA Basketball training camp news conference.
“Don’t you think we’ve tried to do that kind of stuff?! No, he hasn’t done his research! That’s my only thing with Draymond!”
Angel continued, “We want to get our stories out. I created a TV show about these kinds of issues, its a dramatic comedy called ‘Fair Game.’ I’ve gone to Springhill Entertainment, I’ve gone to Sony where Steph Curry’s people are. We got turned down! ‘Oh, we don’t want a show about the WNBA.’”
McCoughtry says she’s happy Draymond is keeping the women’s pay issue in the headlines, but thinks he should “talk more to the women before just thinking he had a bright idea.”
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The three-time All Star made his most recent controversial comments during a video interview with Kerith Burke, an NBC Sports Bay Area reporter who pressed Green on his previous tweets regarding the gender wage gap within sports.
“I’m really tired of seeing them complain about the lack of pay, because they’re doing themselves a disservice by just complaining,” he said Wednesday. “They’re not laying out steps that they can take to change that. It’s coming off as a complaint because the people that can change it are just going to continue to say, ‘Well, the revenue isn’t there. So if you don’t bring in the revenue, we can’t up your pay.’ They’re going to keep using that, but the reality is, as true as that is, it’s an excuse. Because everyone says, ‘We support women. We support women’s empowerment. We support women in the workplace. We do this for women. We do X for women. Blah, blah, blah. And everyone uses it to their advantage, yet these women are not using these people who are saying these very things to their advantage.”
