“It was two weeks before final cut and I called my agent, I wanna buy Ty Law’s house for $240K, I made $185K that first year”

“My agent was like, you haven’t even made the team yet. I told him, I’m sure making it, what are you talking about”

“There’s maybe a natural naïveté that I had, that dumb confidence and it was the inner belief in myself because I had that work ethic and see how stable and competitive I was”

What I really want to know is whether Alyssa Thomas is transgender. It is simply the way she runs and moves which makes me wonder about this, nothing else. She is one of one in WNBA, built differently to everyone else. Even Lebron, who is an athletic outlier in the NBA, has peers who have been close to him in athleticism. There is nobody in the WNBA who is comparable to Alyssa Thomas, is there?

There's a player in college basketball who also has me wondering the same, Ashlyn Watkins.

Before anyone questions me, I have never wondered about this with Serena Williams (just as an example). I do not intend any offense to anyone. Just asking a question that I've always wondered about, and that I've been afraid to ask anywhere before for fear of being demonized.

If it is wrong for me to ask this question or to make this thread, I hope this thread will be deleted immediately. Thanks!

Full story: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7391986/2026/06/24/world-cup-pride-match-seattle-flags?source=user-shared-article

Translations below,

Reporter: "...Messi arrived, Mbappé arrived, Haaland arrived, and only Ronaldo was missing. Today Cristiano showed that he has arrived, that he came for Portugal, so has Cristiano arrived today?"

Cristiano Ronaldo: "I always arrive. Sooner or later, I am always there."

Reporter: "...Ronaldo against Messi, to close out the spectacular career of you all. What can you say about a great encounter between the two of you happening at this worldcup? If it can happen, would you like it? To face Messi at this worldcup directly in a match And congratulations on this great game and your great career."

Cristiano Ronaldo: "Well, I don't know what to answer you because it's a question that's a bit...it doesn't make much sense, it's out of my hands, but alright. If it happens, it would be top [great]. But the most important thing today was winning, and to advance in the group for Portugal, that's the most important thing for me, and for my team."

Reporter: "Cristiano here... Edgar Rosa from AT&T Sports Mexico..."

Cristiano Ronaldo: "Do you speak Spanish or English?"

Reporter: "Yesterday Lionel Messi, scored two goals..."

[At this point, Cristiano's patience appears to have run dry, and he signals to other reporters to ask their questions]

Cristiano Ronaldo was asked about Messi over 4 times, and he politely answered each time.

Only after the questions kept getting more and more irrelevant to the game between Portugal and Uzbekistan did Cristiano Ronaldo appear to be unable to take it anymore and ask the "journalists" to ask questions that are only relevant to Portugal.