Athletes Ask For More Than Silence
Mulkey’s response didn’t go unnoticed by the larger basketball community.
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Former Baylor players and others in the sport spoke up after video of Mulkey’s press conference went public.
Indiana Fever rookie Queen Egbo, a member of Baylor’s 2019 NCAA championship team, said Mulkey’s silence should give future recruits pause.
“A player that built Baylor, 2 national titles, & a 40-0 record. Yet her former coach refuses to say anything or simply just show any kind of support,” the Fever rookie tweeted, later correcting it to “two Final Fours.”
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Egbo’s 2019 teammate Chloe Jackson also spoke up.
“And I will say it again. SILENCE SPEAKS VOLUMES, smh,” she tweeted.
Mystics rookie Shakira Austin, who played at Maryland and Ole Miss, added to the chorus.
“Once you no longer benefit their lives watch how they move after,” she wrote. “Recruits idk what else to suggest besides just go overseas and be selfish.”
Meanwhile…
Comments from current Baylor head coach Nicki Collen stood in stark contrast with Mulkey’s response during a press conference of her own on Monday.
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Collen took over the program in 2021 after Mulkey’s departure for LSU.
“Those that have been around me know I get pretty emotional,” Collen said. “I think BG, first of all, is human first. I think this is a human rights issue.”
“No one is saying she didn’t make a mistake. None of us are perfect. But I guess I would want to know if I did something and was stuck in a foreign country and what it was, what it wasn’t — I think we all know that 10 years is a long time.”
Collen said that Griner was one of the first people to reach out to her when she got the Baylor job.
“She’s represented Baylor. She was Baylor. She made Baylor a household name.”
“Knowing BG — knowing her, being around her — she’s a big kid. To know her is to love her. She just is one of those people that radiates joy.”
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