The importance of women’s basketball is known to hoopers and their fans, but with the sport’s tremendous growth over the past several years, its impact has become hard to ignore by those who may not watch the sport as closely. It’s why coaches like Virginia Tech’s Kenny Brooks get so choked up when speaking about just how important women’s basketball is and its trajectory.
Women’s basketball is more than a moment. It’s an undeniable movement. The passion that women’s basketball stars play with is infectious, which keeps arenas nationwide frequently sold out. Ballers are everywhere, from Caitlin Clark to Angel Reese to Kamilla Cardoso to Georgia Amoore. Virginia Tech head coach Kenny Brooks is already aware of how fantastic women’s basketball is and has been waiting for everyone else to see why he loves the game so much. (See the clip below and the 5:53 mark of the YouTube video.)
(Warning: NSFW language.)
To close the presser, @therealdcunna asked Kenny Brooks about the attendance record set tonight for a women's basketball game in the state of Virginia.
Brooks gave a very emotional response that is well worth a listen. pic.twitter.com/izekyxlVqA
— Anthony Romano (@ARomanoWDBJ) March 4, 2024
Following the end of Virginia Tech’s regular season, Kenny Brooks poured his heart out to the media:
“In every sense, I have been fighting for respectability. Every one of the kids I coached has worked their [expletive] off for me, and I watch the women’s game get disrespected by people who have no idea how much work these kids put in…
I saw something the other day, and Carmelo Anthony was talking about the women’s game. And he talked about [how] the women’s game is its purest in its form because they play the right way. When you got one of the greatest of all time to ever say that, it makes fools on Twitter look silly.”