Angel Reese has owned her second. From being named Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four after LSU gained their first nationwide title in program historical past, to the reactions from her “dealings” with Iowa’s Caitlin Clark being the very best instance of “Two Americas” we’ve seen in fairly a while, to her public claims that her crew would slightly see the Obamas than go to the White House after Dr. Jill Biden disrespectfully stated that each the Hawkeyes and Tigers ought to come for a go to.
It’s been fairly every week. However, the very best potential storyline of all of them had been ignored. The considered Kim Mulkey having to probably meet President Biden — the person that determined to convey Brittney Griner house after Mulkey virtually did nothing your entire time the very best participant she’s ever coached was imprisoned in Russia — was looking at us proper within the face.
And on Thursday, it was set in stone. LSU is going to the White House.
“Congrats to @LSUwbkb who demonstrated excellence on and off the court. They showed us what it looks like to win with an unrelenting belief in themselves. And they did it in one of the most-watched women’s sports games in US history. You have an incredible school, @LSUpresident,” the President tweeted, when he formally invited the Tigers and UConn’s males’s crew to the White House earlier within the week.
If you hadn’t heard, Angel Reese goes, too. However, we must always all be centered on Mulkey’s attendance, because it at all times felt like she didn’t care if Biden would do what was essential to convey house her former star participant.
“God is good. Prayers are powerful,” Mulkey advised ESPN in December after we discovered that Griner was going to be freed. “Brittney is on her way home where she belongs. Our prayers remain with her and her family as they recover and heal together.”
Those 29 phrases are all she may muster after solely beforehand talking on Griner’s scenario as soon as when she replied, “and you won’t,” when requested why she had been publicly silent on the matter.
Back in 2019, Mulkey seemed pathetic — once more — as she publicly begged/talked about that she would welcome a White House invitation from Trump after she gained her final nationwide championship at Baylor — regardless of that on the time Trump had proven us how he felt about girls, on condition that he hadn’t invited a single girls’s championship crew to the White House.
Well, it labored. Trump invited Baylor to D.C. regardless of it feeling like Mulkey was the one one which was completely happy concerning the “fast-food feast” he broke the financial institution for.
“I watched that last game and that was a tough, rough game,” Trump stated about Baylor’s 82-81 win over Notre Dame.
Yeah, proper.
Four years later, Mulkey is headed again to the White House to go to one more president she most likely didn’t vote for — Obama and Biden, not Trump. Both Kim Mulkey and Joe Biden are two individuals who have a historical past of claiming no matter is on their minds. And that alone is the explanation why the Angel Reese angle isn’t the necessary one right here. We ought to all be hoping that White House mics can decide up the audio between Biden and Mulkey after they first meet for a photo-op. Because whereas that image could say a thousand phrases, those they converse to one another might be priceless.