WNBA Declines to Wear ‘USA 250’ Patches During All-Star Game: ‘No WNBA Players Would Have Been Free 250 Years Ago’Warner Todd Huston 26 Jul 2026
The WNBA refused to wear the patriotic “USA 250” patches during its All-Star game on Saturday, becoming the only major American pro sport to reject the patch.
When the patches were first proposed, WNBPA Treasurer Brianna Turner raised eyebrows when she suggested that the patch should be rejected over slavery, and said in a post on X that, “No WNBA players would have been free 250 years ago. The majority wouldn’t even have their freedom 100 years ago.”
https://twitter.com/_Breezy_Briii/status/2062663499642442120Turner’s sentiment spurred a “discussion” in the league, and WNBA officials then refused to say one way or the other if the patches would be worn for the July 25 game. Ultimately—and without any official explanation—the patches were rejected for the game.
The Las Vegas Aces forward’s extended attack on the U.S. went on, too. In another post, she wrote: “We are some of the most elite female athletes. 250 years ago, we would have been breeders or in the fields working all day. Be so serious rn.”
With all this bad mouthing of the United States, it is hard to understand why Turner would have played for Team USA at the 2012 FIBA Under-17 World Championship, the 2013 FIBA Under-19 World Championship, and the 2014 FIBA Americas Under-18 Championship.
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