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An ugly war of words has broken out between WNBA star Liz Cambage and former NBA center and Australian basketball alum Andrew Bogut.

The social media spat erupted after Cambage, in a series of Instagram posts last week, expressed her frustration over promotional photos for the Tokyo Olympics. The images show predominantly white Australian athletes.

Cambage — born to a Nigerian father and Australian mother — described the photos as “whitewashed,” and said she’ll “sit out” the 2021 games. She has since confirmed she will participate in this year’s Olympics. The Aces star has played for Australia’s national women’s basketball team, the Opals, in the past two Olympics.

“If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a million times, HOW AM I MEANT TO REPRESENT A COUNTRY THAT DOESN’T EVEN REPRESENT ME,” Cambage wrote at the time.

Bogut entered the conversation when he responded to Cambage’s social media remarks on his “Rogue Bogues” podcast this week.

“What frustrates me with this is counting the amount of different skin colors in a photo is just poor form,” Bogut said, calling the action a “slippery slope” that could affect the country at the Olympics.


  Liz Cambage; Andrew Bogut Getty images Liz Cambage; Andrew Bogut Getty images

“There’s a lot of different factors that go into it, this is made out like it was a blatant effort to whitewash the photo, to make Australia look white,” he added.

Bogut also alluded that Cambage’s issue could be with the apparel sponsor, Jockey, since she is connected to a rival company.

Cambage hit back at Bogut on Twitter and Instagram on Tuesday.

“Mr Bogut’s obsession with me so strange, it’s been like 10 years of you speaking on my name…. if you want me just say that,” she tweeted. Cambage then took to Instagram to share a screenshot of her tweet to stories, set to Mariah Carey’s song “Obsessed.”

Bogut hit back on Twitter, telling the WNBA star, “Love ya!”

In an Instagram video on Tuesday, Cambage stood behind her initial comments about the photos.

“There are two people in this world. There are the people who have the balls to stand up and say something and make change — that’s me. I was born for this,” she said in the since-expired clip, noting that she won’t stop speaking out about issues she’s passionate about.

“I am such a narcissist, I am such a psycho b—h that all the hate that you give me, I love it … it makes me go harder, it makes me push for more. The second type of people in this world — that’s the people that are intimated and scared and insecure and hide behind fake profiles and talk s–t because you’re too scared to do anything… I’m out here talking my s–t with my big-a– mouth, being a big-old b—h, making change, baby.”


  Liz Cambage Getty Images Liz Cambage Getty Images

The Australian Olympic Committee acknowledged Cambage’s comments and issued a statement.

“The athletes made available to Jockey could and should have better reflected the rich diversity of athletes who represent Australia at the Olympic Games,” a spokesman said in part, according to news.com.au.

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