Ball Up Top: A Women’s Basketball Podcast
Jul 9, 2026 · 39 min · 8 segments
On this week's episode of Ball Up Top, Chauny is joined by Tyler and Andrew to discuss a busy week in the WNBA and women's basketball world. The Las Vegas Aces waived sixth woman Chennedy Carter…
Tyler DeLucaHostChaunyHost
Andrew HobnerHost... today.
Uh, they waived Kennedy Carter earlier this week.
Just to be clear, an anonymous Florida Gulf Coast graduate is still on the roster, but Kennedy Carter is now gone.
All right, man.
We don't know what happened.
We don't know the why.
I just know that now, like 20 points a game, Sixth Woman of the Year is no longer there.
I touched on it some in the power rankings video, but Shawnie, there is zero, not one, not in existence, not in any timeline, no basketball-on-the-floor argument that Kennedy Carter gets cut from this team.
With the way that this bench has been, not only for this year, but for pretty much the entirety of A'ja Wilson's reign of the WNBA, this Aces bench has been pitiful, and you finally go and get some production off of it, and this is what you do.
But I, Shawnie, I, I, I've, I've been a little bit bothered frankly by how fast people are jumping to any conclusion, because we don't know.
So-
...
I'm gonna have something 'cause there's some context missing.
... today.
Uh, they waived Kennedy Carter earlier this week.
Just to be clear, an anonymous Florida Gulf Coast graduate is still on the roster, but Kennedy Carter is now gone.
All right, man.
We don't know what happened.
We don't know the why.
I just know that now, like 20 points a game, Sixth Woman of the Year is no longer there.
I touched on it some in the power rankings video, but Shawnie, there is zero, not one, not in existence, not in any timeline, no basketball-on-the-floor argument that Kennedy Carter gets cut from this team.
With the way that this bench has been, not only for this year, but for pretty much the entirety of A'ja Wilson's reign of the WNBA, this Aces bench has been pitiful, and you finally go and get some production off of it, and this is what you do.
But I, Shawnie, I, I, I've, I've been a little bit bothered frankly by how fast people are jumping to any conclusion, because we don't know.
So-
...
I'm gonna have something 'cause there's some context missing.
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