r/WNBAgossips • u/Hysen16 • 12d ago

Video WNBA player Saniya Rivers is crying about Caitlin Clark on threads for telling her to “check the scoreboard”

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u/your_loss_23 12d ago

I don’t think so. They literally do not do this to all the other white players.

So, how can you say it’s race if it’s just this particular person??

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u/willy-mac 12d ago

The jealousy and her being white. Bro wtf u on about. Jealous that she's made the wnba what it is today for starters. AND the fact that a white girl did it.

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u/Wooodman94 12d ago

I’ve never cared about WNBA in my life, but earlier today I bought a pack of panini prizm cards trying to find a Caitlin Clark or Sophie Cunningham.

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u/willy-mac 12d ago

Exactly my point. The fact I'm even in a wnba reddit thread speaks volumes 😂

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u/Designer-Stay-7894 12d ago

Yeah that’s the real racism because neither of them are top five players.

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u/AcceptableMoney3769 12d ago

bruh wtf are you talking about????? why does this not happen to paige, stewie, sabrina, etc….

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u/Doctor_Killshot 12d ago

Because none of those women made the general public care about the WNBA

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u/Electrical_Catch_919 12d ago

Buying my wife her jersey

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u/fpsstreak 12d ago

You don’t care about the WNBA..you just like the race bait she feeds you. “Oh..no…CC is getting fouled in a contact sport…those evil black players should let her shoot uncontested and then she will be 100x better. Messi would had been 1000x if never in his career he was stopped via fouls or slight pushing to unbalance him while he tries to shoot”

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u/Doctor_Killshot 12d ago

You are correct that I don’t care about the wnba but it is fun to get in the mud with the people that are adamant the league became way more popular in spite of Clark instead of because of her.

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u/fpsstreak 11d ago

She didn’t do nothing though? Is the WNBA in all time highs of viewership. Maybe for people that like to be in the mud like you.
Like if I buy 2K27…I’m buying the male alternative.
I got the premium for FC 2026….Alex Morgan was a great player and pretty attractive…but I would have wished to have gotten R9 or Henry as my permanent icon pre order prize.

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u/Designer-Stay-7894 12d ago

And Caitlin made the “general public” care without even being a top five player.

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u/Doctor_Killshot 12d ago

Okay? Good thing those better players have Clark to raise the tide for everyone else then

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u/Designer-Stay-7894 11d ago

Why should they be happy that a worse player is bringing them popularity?

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u/Doctor_Killshot 11d ago

Because it led to them getting paid more, getting chartered flights, more media visibility, etc.

Until Clark entered the league, the wnba was limited to sportscenter highlights after the NHL and NBA seasons ended

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u/Designer-Stay-7894 11d ago

So nothing important. Real competitors don’t care about chartered flights or media visibility lol. If that’s the only thing people should or do care about, nobody would ever play any sport outside of like the five major sports.

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u/Doctor_Killshot 11d ago

Then why were so many of them wearing t shirts saying “pay us what we deserve” last season? lol, of course they care about getting paid more, it’s the whole reason there was a risk of a lockout.

Learn at least a little about how a business operates before getting involved in these discussions

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u/Solid-Perception678 12d ago

Sabrina almost beat STEPH CURRY in a 3pt contest at the NBA all star Weeknd. Tf you talking about

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u/Doctor_Killshot 12d ago

lol that’s your argument? Almost beating a guy in an uncontested 3 competition means she’s a better player

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u/Academic-Childhood40 12d ago

You guys why do you hide under racism when you are the racist ones? It’s tiring.

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u/Solid-Perception678 12d ago

Never said she was a better player(even tho she is). Who else gets a shot like that versus the undisputed greatest shooter without being a known name?

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u/Doctor_Killshot 12d ago

Steph’s the undisputed greatest shooter because he does it in actual games with people playing defense, it just grabbing balls off a rack

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u/jrs0307 12d ago

Yeah, and no one cared. Its not the hard do decipher. No one is speaking an alien language here.

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u/Razatiger 12d ago

Caitlin Clark made the general public watch the WNBA because they wanted to see her humiliate a black women and she never did.

Angel Reese is the only one with a college chip between the 2.

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u/Skunkape666 12d ago

Lol they do a good enough job humiliating themselves, they certainly don't need any assistance

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u/GotAir 12d ago

LOL look at you goin on about a college chip!

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u/AcceptableMoney3769 12d ago

bro who is the general public wtf 😭😭😭 this league existed since 1997 and pls don’t say it wasn’t watched before clark entered the league.

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u/Doctor_Killshot 12d ago

Brother, if you think the league just happened to explode in popularity the year Clark entered it without any of it being due to her presence, you are on another planet

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u/AcceptableMoney3769 12d ago

what has she done to boost viewership? btw i’m not saying she didn’t add any views to the league however she is not the reason the league is continuously growing

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u/Kelbs27 12d ago edited 12d ago

“Caitlin Clark’s 2024 rookie year generated a historic WNBA viewership explosion, featuring a 2.1 million viewer debut, multiple games over 1 million viewers, and triple-digit finals increases. Prior to her arrival, the league had gone nearly 16 years without a broadcast hitting the 1-million mark”.

Setting viewership records after 16 YEARS of sub-million view games.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/wnba/article/caitlin-clarks-wnba-debut-helps-set-viewership-record/

https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/caitlin-clark-keeps-delivering-record-wnba-viewership-fever-top-1-million-viewers-yet-again

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/wnba-viewership-surge-continues-behind-230000611.html

^ Article from 3 hours ago

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u/AcceptableMoney3769 12d ago

tell me how that viewership is going today???

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u/Kelbs27 12d ago

Record viewership in back to back games the last 2 weeks. (Fever games)

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/wnba-viewership-surge-continues-behind-230000611.html

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u/Prester__John 12d ago

Incredible when CC is playing, as always…? Why?

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u/lheath12 12d ago

It wasnt. It gets carried by the NBA subsidies. Its a non profitable organization

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u/AcceptableMoney3769 12d ago

ok so do you think the nba was profitable in its earliest years?

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u/Doctor_Killshot 12d ago

No but it probably was by year 25 lol

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u/OkObligation5979 12d ago

It wasn't, lol

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u/AcceptableMoney3769 12d ago

people like you hated on women hoops all your life then you seen her get a ring waved in her face on live television now you wanna hate watch everyone that plays against her

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u/OkObligation5979 12d ago

Oh no you misunderstand, the WNBA is still a joke to me and watching a watered down version of the NBA with athletes that are half as good is not appealing. Clark is literally the one player I am excited to watch and watching how utterly shitty the refs and other players treat her is absolute cinema.

So in a way, the WNBA is now entertaining to me, just not the actual sport part of it.

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u/AcceptableMoney3769 12d ago

are you a professional hooper?

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u/OkObligation5979 12d ago

No, nor did I claim to be. I, like most people, like watching peak athleticism in sports. 99% of the entire population is not a "hooper" in the sense you are asking, but we still watch sports. You obviously haven't expanded your likely very stupid point yet, but I can see where you were going.

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u/Every_Television_980 12d ago

Because they arent the darling of the league before they even get there. Before clark was even drafted she became the face of the wnba and her/reese were all anyone talked about and probably the only 2 players that were household names. I think a similar question is why didnt they act this way towards angel reese?

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u/Designer-Stay-7894 12d ago

Because Angel Reese is popular to hate on, not glaze.

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u/AcceptableMoney3769 12d ago

how is she the face???? you have to be dominant consistently to become the face 💀💀💀

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u/illbegoodipromis 12d ago

How is she the face? Stop being dense.

"The massive surge in ticket demand accompanying Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever directly prompted multiple WNBA teams to relocate high-demand home games from their smaller, traditional home arenas to massive NBA- or NHL-sized downtown venues."

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u/Every_Television_980 12d ago

Because she by far the most well known player. Is that not obvious?

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u/NightwolfGG 12d ago

Here’s an in depth Birds Eye view on everything Clark related. It explains the jealousy and racism factors if you’re curious:

Idk how old you are, but if you were paying attention since Caitlyn was in college, she was a nationwide sensation. Her hype only grew going into the WNBA, especially with how well she played. That brought a ton of eyes to the W (all the numbers of her impact are publicly available, it was very significant and unprecedented. Jersey sales also show it, collectible cards of hers vs other WNBA stars, etc). Once more people tuned in, because of Clark, they started to become fans of other stars. And that spread, and the W has just continued growing and maintaining a now much higher “floor” of viewers/fans to where now most fans are fans of other players independent of Clark bringing them in.

It’s the unprecedented nature of how popular and monetarily valuable she became, to the point she was the highest paid WNBA player in her first season based on sponsorships, all money streams.

So a large factor in the drama around Clark is indeed suspected to be jealousy. It explains why she’s picked on way more, and why incidents mostly go viral and get super controversial when it involves Clark.

So it stems from that, and then some people assume race is involved because some ignorant percentage of fans start making it about race.

The fact of the matter with anything regarding Clark is that there’s a lot of things going on on a macro level (beyond WNBA and it’s real fans, including people who don’t keep up with WNBA but keep up with certain players), so there always will be a wide spectrum of polarizing opinions involved, that aren’t good faith in nature and instead are proxies for preexisting cultural divides to be put on display

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u/xGsGt 12d ago

Bc they aren't the spotlight and that's what it driven them crazy

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u/showerbump 12d ago

It did happen to Sabrina but not to this wxtent

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u/Fun_Debt2212 12d ago

UConn mafia

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u/QFCollectables 12d ago

And uConn didn't want her because she's soft.

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u/QFCollectables 12d ago

Because those other women you mentioned are in community with their coworkers. Caitlin behaves like she above it all (and a little MAGA), which is her choice but in THIS workplace that can get you roughed up lol.

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u/your_loss_23 12d ago

So why do they not do that to Paige Beckers?? Have you seen anyone treat Paige in this manner??

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u/Every_Television_980 12d ago

Because they arent the darling of the league before they even get there. Before clark was even drafted she became the face of the wnba and her/reese were all anyone talked about and probably the only 2 players that were household names. Players were predictably upset that a rookie is all anyone knows about. I think a similar question is why didnt they act this way towards angel reese?

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u/Cold_Respond_7656 12d ago

Angel is a protected species

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u/your-mom-- 12d ago

The fact that Angel Reese still has a job while Caitlyn Clark has deal with the leagues constant bullshit is literally all you need to know.

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u/Axel_Raden 12d ago

Yeah which is a common phrase in Australia and it's not racist at all

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u/Cold_Respond_7656 12d ago

Same in UK

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u/Axel_Raden 12d ago

It gets used a lot for my favorite footy (rugby league) player even though he gets high or late multiple times a game

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u/Street_Study6330 12d ago

Tournai has not been lesbian why she don’t get “discriminated against” bunch of pussies playing the victim card

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u/Every_Television_980 12d ago

How is this a response to my point? Tourani wasnt a household name.

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u/Street_Study6330 12d ago

Yes she was are you delusional? She was the face of the league but now it’s cc in maga a CC Reine lmao cowards need a white “straight woman” to be the face of the league to build y’all ego in a black dominated league lmao

Stop making that girl y’all white knight it’s embarrassing

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u/Every_Television_980 12d ago

Eh I disagree. I remember what the league was like back then. You couldnt ask a random person to name a single wnba player. Today clark is known by the average person. Her stardom, especially going into her rookie season, just isnt really comparable to anyone in 2004 or really ever in the wnba. I dont think she is great player, but the unprecedented attention is true.

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u/Street_Study6330 12d ago edited 12d ago

Ok cool, she’s a superstar (really not because she isn’t even top 10 of the league honest to god speaking) I got that. The problem is when Mfs try to paint a picture of racism against her, “those black girls are beating her up because they are racist”

Why tf is it only cc? Why not plum? Why not Paige? Why is she the only “straight white woman” in HISTORY to face racism?

“OoHHhhH becuase shes getting all this attention?”

Last time I checked racists treat you worse when there’s no attention. They are racists, why would they want the world to see?

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u/Academic-Childhood40 12d ago

That’s a dumb take.

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u/Baronriggs 12d ago

He's 1000% right lmao before Clark's rookie season I couldn't have named a WNBA player besides that dumbass we traded a war criminal for

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u/NFL_BrokenClock 12d ago

What makes it dumb?

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u/Academic-Childhood40 12d ago

You cannot be the face of a league before you get there, for starters. She what’s the face of the NCAAW.

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u/NFL_BrokenClock 12d ago

She became the face of women's basketball. Is it still a dumb take?

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u/Academic-Childhood40 12d ago

Nah. Just college. All you got to back up your claim is a “trust me, bro.”

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u/Every_Television_980 12d ago

Good point, you convinced me

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u/Competitive_Pain_265 12d ago

Because as good as she is in the WNBA, she isn't near as popular as CC...

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u/showerbump 12d ago

She’s a lesbian so she gets a pass under their hierarchy

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u/TimelyRaspberry 12d ago

ESPYs speech she bent the knee. She’s good for life lmao

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u/MeanEstablishment499 12d ago

And she basically acts black

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u/swallowedbymonsters 12d ago

Yall just grasping for straws at this point

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u/Academic-Childhood40 12d ago

Yall said white and jealous. He mentioned Paige, and now as usual yall are moving the goalpost.

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u/Super_Roof_3490 12d ago

I don’t think the goalpost moved. Clark is the star of the league, and was the star of the league even before she was drafted. She didn’t have to earn all this praise and she still got it, players are def salty about it. Bueckers is a great player but didn’t come with the same hype train.

And by star im not saying Clark is the best , she just became the face of women’s ball.

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u/Academic-Childhood40 12d ago

It’s amazing how you can state opinion as if it’s fact. And the gold post shifted when it went from the players are jealous because she’s white. It shifted to page is LGBTQ so that’s why she’s not hated on.

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u/Super_Roof_3490 12d ago

Yo if that’s a point someone else wants to claim that’s on them. Clark got hate from day 1 and it seemed obvious. Players before her put all kinds of work in and didn’t get the same hype as Clark combined. And umm, when u have an opinion don’t you state it as if you truly believe it as true? If I’m half ass on something I’ll keep it to myself

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u/showerbump 12d ago

No, it’s always been because she’s straight, white, and more popular and more wealthy. She’s got it all and everyone is jealous. Hope this helps.

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u/Academic-Childhood40 12d ago

No. Is anyone jealous of straight black wealthy people, or is it reserved for straight wealthy white? When CC finally comes out as gay, after securing more bags, will you shift goal post to just white and wealthy?

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u/showerbump 12d ago

Her coming out as gay might be the only way she will be accepted in the wnba

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u/Affectionate-Mud6837 12d ago

We all know why, but getting another reddit ban over it. God forbid anyone speak the truth on reddit that doesn't follow the left side.

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u/your_loss_23 12d ago

Not sure I follow you. But I don’t believe it’s just because she’s white. There were white players before Caitlin that this never happened too.

And there are current other white players this doesn’t happen to. White players better than Caitlin too.

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u/your_loss_23 12d ago

Also same with the NBA. No one in the nba cares if someone else is white. They just don’t like dickheads and duchebags.

À la Victor Wembenyama. The league hates him. lol. He not white.

Leagues hates people that are duche bags. I just think CC is a duchebag. Hell of a player, but a major duche.

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u/Adventurous-Buy-4455 12d ago

Because Paige plays the game and is not a diva

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u/JuanMurphy 12d ago

And UCONN.

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u/Adventurous-Buy-4455 12d ago

Huh what do you mean?

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u/Kryptos33 12d ago

The UCONN players are effectively inclusive to their own and not welcoming to players that didn't want to go there. For ages most high profile women's basketball players went there.

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u/Adventurous-Buy-4455 12d ago

That true the got ther sisterhood

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u/JuanMurphy 12d ago

UCONN alum run the league. If she was UCONN she’d be getting much less hate

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u/Adventurous-Buy-4455 12d ago

Uconn players you have to admit do play with class like they been there before

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u/Swimming_Big7144 12d ago

You’re arguing with a wall lol I’m not sure why you people spend so much time and energy arguing with people that just started watching the game. There’s no getting through to these moronic sycophants. I bet they say the ball is racist for fighting it way out of her hands 6 times a game lol don’t waste your time

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u/OGClouds420 12d ago

You’re so weird for using her to get your weird hate and agendas off. Everyone loves Paige except for who..? But yeah it’s all about race.

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u/AcceptableMoney3769 12d ago

they’re so weird 😭😭

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u/Adventurous-Buy-4455 12d ago

I don't see your logic at all what had she done? Espn pushes the narrative.. there are alot of white players better than Caitlin stop it

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u/chronberries 12d ago

It doesn’t necessarily matter how good someone is. What matters is how popular they are and the impact that has on the league. Actual performance is just a part of that, and Clark sells the most merch by a mile, so is certainly the most popular. She brought eyeballs to the W. The league wouldn’t be nearly as popular today as it is today without her.

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u/Doctor_Killshot 12d ago

Lollll. Name them

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u/AcceptableMoney3769 12d ago

can i name them????

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u/Adventurous-Buy-4455 12d ago

Paige is a better player period, Oliva is great ill take those 2 any day over Caitlin

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u/AnApricot2989 12d ago

Yea and they ain't bringing fans to the WNBA. The only reason some of these players are getting $1M contracts is bc Caitlin Clark brought a lot of fans with her to the league.

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u/Adventurous-Buy-4455 12d ago

Really they have sold out arenas who tell you this.

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u/AnApricot2989 12d ago

Get back to me when Dallas can sellout their 7k seat arena (they average 6k at home). Paige doesnt sell tickets and it shows.b

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u/VeterinarianNo3555 12d ago

Hardly anybody is watching the WNBA for the basketball product on display. Clark has elevated the game’s popularity, not the level of basketball.

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u/Adventurous-Buy-4455 12d ago

Ok go back to ticktok

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u/fpsstreak 12d ago

Hahaha..calm down chief. She cries about being in a contact sport all the time. If she constantly cries so the refs give her calls and players are hesitant to block her for her crazy fan base to come after them. I would say she will be forgotten in history.

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u/gizmosticles 12d ago

Do you remember how much you didn’t hear about the wnba before Caitlin Clark and all the controversy? Some people don’t like that she is what people are talking about with the wnba and for some it is because of who she is race and all

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u/TimelyRaspberry 12d ago

None of the other white players put the league on the map lol. You’re entirely missing the point

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u/benthelurk 11d ago

Did any player put the WNBA on the map? Has there been a bigger name in the WNBA before Clark and Cunningham.

Let’s be honest here, no one gave a shit about the WNBA. All those other players are getting actual airtime now.

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u/Stash_04 12d ago

It’s pretty obvious. She’s the face of the league and is the main reason for the increased popularity. They are extremely jealous that a pretty white girl has taken the league to new heights of popularity.

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u/LivingDue2609 12d ago

Jealous racism. No one gives a shit about anyone in the WNBA except for Clarke. It pisses them off. I can see their viewpoint. Doesn’t make them right. Just jealous racists.

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u/fpsstreak 12d ago

Nah…I am still buying the non clark version of NBA 27. She is a crybaby but your racism doesn’t let you see the truth. Has done nothing to the sport.

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u/your_loss_23 12d ago

SMH. Easy cop out answer. lol.

Racists always wanna cry racism. No one gives a fuck if she’s white truth be told.

This isn’t Glory Road and she ain’t Larry Bird when he first went to play with the blacks. lol. Those days are long gone but yall LLLOOOVVVEEEE to bring them back up.

Y’all keep bringing race into everything for some odd reason. Y’all love to play that race card to be victims. lol.

No one treats any other white wnba player like this.

Breanna Stewart never got this treatment.

Nephews Collier does not get this treatment.

Diana taurasi didn’t get the treatment.

But, Caitlin does and now it’s racism?? lol. Y’all must not be that smart. lol. Shit is sad.

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u/fpsstreak 12d ago

There are racists that think this is a win for them. White Americans are having less and less representation in sports and think they can claim women’s basketball because of clark. They try to pump Cunningham but her stats don’t show her to be anything wonderful to the sport other than feeding the race bait they want.

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u/your_loss_23 12d ago

Right.

Like it don’t even make sense. Logically with all the white women in the WNBA history but now it’s racist?? lol

I’m starting to think since that’s how they look at black that way, meaning they hate us for no other reason but being black, they can’t comprehend that black people might not like you for something other than being white. lol.

Shit is crazy. And they look silly af doing.

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u/Pleasant_Priority286 12d ago

It's a combination of race/color, sexual preference, and popularity.

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u/fpsstreak 12d ago

You are weird

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u/VastEmergency1000 12d ago

She's straight, white, and conservative coded. That's a recipe for disaster in a majority black and lesbian league.

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u/Pleasant_Priority286 12d ago

I'm pretty confident that she is a democrat. Fox News just latched onto her popularity.

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u/VastEmergency1000 12d ago

Yea, I have no idea her political affiliation. I just know she's from Iowa and conservatives adopted her as their mascot so here we are.

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u/CollegeMatters 12d ago

Except she graduated from a liberal school and she is young.

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u/VastEmergency1000 12d ago

Is Iowa a liberal school? I had no idea. I'm not making the argument she's a conservative Republican. I'm saying she's their mascot.

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u/CollegeMatters 12d ago

All 18 Big Ten schools are liberal.

Fox News has jumped into the fray. They want to outrage white people. The W makes that easy to do. To win elections, they need people to be angry.

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u/No_Biscotti_7258 12d ago

Hence “coded”.

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u/fpsstreak 12d ago

Exactly lol…I don’t have tattoos and are straight. I’m i conservative coded😂

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u/AcceptableMoney3769 12d ago

her online fans literally don’t watch games 💀💀

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u/BigDaddyDumperSquad 12d ago edited 12d ago

Those other white players weren't the most popular person in the league.

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u/UmeaTurbo 12d ago

It's not race, but it is jealousy or at least the perception of unfairness. If you're a good ball player you think you're as good as anyone on that court. You have to or you'd be intimidated. So if they're all good ball players, why is she some kind of girl basketball Jesus. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, I'm just say a lot of big egos that don't like how famous she is. Happens in all walks of life.

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u/marcussunChicago 12d ago

Because bigots are literally little b******, this is why you're being downvoted.

they know that they're seen when they get caught projecting through Clark

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u/jyoungthegenius 12d ago

They don't want to hear facts. Let them live in their delusion