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Meghan L. Hall

The Kim Mulkey Washington Post profile finally dropped, and fans had memes after reading it

The Washington Post’s story on Kim Mulkey published Saturday, and if diehard fans were hoping for explosive revelations about the LSU women’s basketball coach, they likely didn’t get them.

The in-depth profile of Mulkey, by feature writer Kent Babb, is a thorough look at one of the best coaches in basketball, her controversies and how she got to where she is.

It’s far from a “hit piece,” which is how Mulkey described the story last weekend before it was published with other scathing and unprompted remarks during a press conference. She also threatened to sue The Washington Post if it published anything untrue, but several details in the story were already previously reported.

With the profile published, basketball fans predictably reacted with memes and jokes about Mulkey’s preemptive and unnecessary attack against the story, the paper and Babb. The story was thorough but didn’t seem to match the fire Mulkey insinuated it would have.

Here’s how some basketball fans reacted:

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