Lady Ballers

Lady Ballers is a 2023 American sports comedy film starring, directed and co-written by Jeremy Boreing, co-CEO of conservative media company The Daily Wire.

[2][3] Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, Brett Cooper and Jordan Peterson all make appearances.

In 2008, coach Rob Gibson leads his high school boys' basketball team to victory in a third back-to-back state championship in Nashville.

Desperate, Rob accepts a job at a drag queen restaurant where he finds his former star point guard, Alex Cruise, also working.

Alex easily wins every event, gaining the attention of local reporter, Gwen Wilde, who convinces them to work with her as a means to become famous.

In response, an angry Gwen orchestrates a plan to put the Lady Ballers up against a team of African American men also claiming to be transgender.

[4] An analysis of Meta's ad library found The Daily Wire had spent $1.6 million advertising Lady Ballers on Facebook and Instagram in the previous month.

[5] The Daily Wire commentator Michael Knowles, who appears in the film as a news anchor, told the American Family Association that "left-wing reviewers" who take issue with the film's assertion that untrained men could easily dominate professional women's sports "totally missed the point of the movie, which is no one cares about women's sports.

An extra told Nashville Scene that several peers voiced objection upon realizing the political nature of the film and The Daily Wire's involvement in it.

[9] Valerie Richardson of The Washington Times said that "pundits at the Daily Wire predicted that their first feature-length comedy, Lady Ballers, would trigger the left, and they weren't wrong.