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ESPN anchor Elle Duncan caught some flak for a particularly raw comment during the network’s broadcast of the WNBA All-Star game.
It was during the break when Duncan commented on his comment on both teams’ high offensive output.
“We hope it will be a little more competitive,” Duncan started after watching Napheesa Collier’s team set up 82 sets for Caitlin Clark’s team’s 60 in the first half. “Because like a girl’s trip to Cancun, right now, there is no D.”
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Elle Duncan before Wnba All-Star Game 2025 July 19, 2025, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Amelia Mcanear/NBAE via Getty Images)
ESPN -Analyst Chiney Ogwumike said quickly, “Elle, you’re in timeout. You’re done.” Then the broadcast went to commercial.
Duncan has no regret over his comments despite Vitriol on social media. During a performance at “The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz”, she defended her comment.
“My thing with the Cancun Customs is that I feel like when I say something, it’s like sometimes a reintroduction for some people who clearly don’t know me or my work for the last 10 years,” said Duncan, pr. For terrible advertising. “I’m like,” bro, I said once on the air that if you celebrate too soon, it’s called too soon, I’m interconnected. “As if I can’t actually imagine this being worse than that.
ESPN hosts off-color joke under wnba all-star broadcast pulling mixed reactions from viewers
“So I thought it was silly. I thought it was fun. Some people disagree. Some people certainly agree. But that’s what it is. Yes, yes, girls say raw jokes too.”
Duncan also dealt with a particular part of comments.
Elle Duncan, Andaya Carter and Chiney Ogwumike make up for a photo under WNBA All-Star Game 2025 July 19, 2025, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Ron Hoskins/NBAE via Getty Images)
“The fun part for me, everything has been the people who are like, ‘what should I say to my kids?'” Duncan added. “I’m like ‘Well, if you have to talk to your children about the fact that’ D ‘is a slang word for a P — S, then I hope I was able to help you have that conversation with your child old enough to see basketball.’ Because my 4-year-old knows what a P — s is.
“It’s so silly to me. The idea that such is groundbreaking or somehow completely inappropriate in the landscape we’re living in right now is just crazy to me. I was a little blown, to be real.”
When Duncan’s comment became viral on social media, many were quick to comment on their frustration of hearing her say that.
“Add this to a long list of why nobody is taking @wnba or @spn seriously,” said an X user during a video of Duncan, sent by awful advertising.
Host Elle Duncan talks during 2024 ESPNW New York Summit at 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge 9 May 2024, in Brooklyn, Ny (John Lamparski/Getty Images)
“If Shane Gillis said so, they would try to cancel him,” wrote another, referring to the comedian’s Espys monologue who turned heads over the past week.
When the second half eventually started, there was more violation than the defense once again when Collier led the way with 36 points to help her team beat Clarks, 151-131, to win the All-Star game.
