“Just trying to mooch off CC motion”: Fans accuse Unrivaled league of engagement farming with 22-minute video and 2 wild card spots
Ahead of the inaugural season of Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier‘s Unrivaled 3×3 league, which is set to tip off in January, some fans are accusing the league of engagement farming. On Tuesday night, the Unrivaled Basketball account on X announced that the league’s coaches would be constructing rosters on Wednesday.
The league then went live on YouTube with a 22-minute video showing coaches constructing team rosters. While some expected them to pick in a draft-style format, that wasn’t the case. Players were broken down into six pods and assigned to teams.
As fans noted, two spots in Pod D, which included Kate Martin, Lexie Hull, Rae Burrell and Rickea Jackson, were left blank as wild card spots. After the draft, fans on X questioned whether the league was engagement baiting by teasing the last two spots even though Caitlin Clark has shown no indications that she’ll play.
After original 2kTV host Rachel DeMita asked whether it was just a coincidence that the video from Unrivaled was 22 minutes long (Clark’s number), fans began to weigh in:
