{"id":88058,"date":"2025-07-24T07:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/88058\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T07:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:31:12","slug":"lynxs-courtney-williams-defends-decision-to-interview-dave-portnoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/88058\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynx’s Courtney Williams defends decision to interview Dave Portnoy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtney Williams and Natasha Hiedeman’s livestream “StudBudz” went viral over WNBA All-Star Weekend. It received primarily positive reviews as the Minnesota Lynx players gave fans a look behind the scenes of the All-Star break. The players recently invited the controversial Dave Portnoy<\/a> to join their livestream, though, something that drew negative reviews from many WNBA fans. Williams defended the decision<\/a> on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ll have a conversation with ANYBODY tbh. Don\u2019t mean I rock with their views or the things that they\u2019ve done. And quite frankly I\u2019ll address ANYBODY. We getting a lil clout and I guess yall forgetting how we give it up,” Williams wrote.<\/p>\n

“Clout & Bread don\u2019t move us twins. We prayed for times like this, so best believe we covered,” Williams added in a separate post<\/a>. “We\u2019ll stand tall in ANY room with ANYBODY.”<\/p>\n

The StudBudz did receive some support for inviting Portnoy to join their stream, though. Some fans felt it was a good move to at least listen to someone with a different viewpoint, even if their opinions do not align. As mentioned, though, there were fans who felt the exact opposite way about the situation.<\/p>\n

“can\u2019t open any of my social platforms without being called a ugly bald headed b*tch,” Williams wrote<\/a>. “y\u2019all crazy man, I love it.”<\/p>\n

Portnoy has been vocal about a number of topics in the WNBA. He has been willing to share his honest thoughts on the league. The Barstool Sports founder also responded to the backlash<\/a> over his appearance on the StudBudz’s stream.<\/p>\n

“People are big mad at Studbudz just cause we talked,” Portnoy wrote in a post on X. “W fans are freaking nuts. I got one of biggest megaphones in the country. I love them. I love the league. Yeah I don\u2019t like Angel and I love Caitlin. It\u2019s called sports.”<\/p>\n

Courtney Williams and Natasha Hiedman’s stream — despite Wednesday’s reviews — has played a crucial role in placing an added spotlight on the WNBA over the past couple of weeks. The Lynx players will likely continue to have notable guests on. Williams’ made it clear that they will talk to “anybody.”<\/p>\n

Of course, both players will also focus on helping the Lynx continue to play winning basketball. Minnesota holds a 21-4 record, a mark that is the best in the league. The Lynx have a serious opportunity to win the 2025 WNBA championship. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtney Williams and Natasha Hiedeman’s livestream “StudBudz” went viral over WNBA All-Star Weekend. It received primarily positive reviews…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":88059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-88058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114907046499288634","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}