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Today, the WNBA announced that they're suspending the Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon for two games and fining the team a draft pick. Their crime? Trying to work around a pregnant player, Dearica Hamby. She's gotten pregnant twice in the past two years, in both instances having to miss significant time with the team. It seems that the the team and coach figured out about the second pregnancy and appeared to offer her a reduced contract in exchange for future salary and benefits later on under the table if she would accept. In addition, they straight up asked her if she was planning on being pregnant again.
Cue the 
of r/NBA discussing this. They're universally taking the side of the player, because rule number one of simping is that women are always right. Never mind that the team and coach are trying to win, they have a finite salary cap and set number of players, and so having someone on their roster who can't play because she's got a bun in the oven has a serious impact on the team's competitiveness.
Of course, anyone who's been in the workforce for any length of time knows just how fricking annoying foids can be because of this. It ruins teams productivity and morale, and fricking sucks to have to do the work of other people while they keep getting paid because they're out preggers. My 
budies have so many stories about how their ship's shops operated under the assumption that, while fully staffed on shore in the US, would see around 50 percent of the women get pregnant the moment it was announced they would be deployed, leaving them undermanned and overworked. Furthermore, despite society long recognizing that having jobs requires certain sacrifices and responsibilities that limit what you can do outside of work, the idea that you can't tell someone getting paid mid-6 figures that they need to wait a year or two to get pregnant is dumb af.
In any case, the great irony of this whole affair is that Becky Hammon has for years been alleging that the only reason she's not been offered a job in the NBA because of sexism. So it's nice to see her demonstrate that she can engage in anti-
violence just as well as any old man can.
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The best part is, she doesn't need to wait.
The WNBA season goes from mid-May to early August, and the playoffs run from mid-August to mid-September. And since women typically don't start feeling any sort of deleterious effects from pregnancy until at least three or four weeks in, she could just go to a team that never makes the playoffs, get knocked up in mid-July, pop the kid out in mid-April, and be back on the court in mid-May.
I know one month to recover from childbirth may not seem like enough for a professional athlete, but come on. It's women's basketball.
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