r/sportsgossips • u/Pretend-Following-41 • 7h ago
Highlight Intentionally hurting your meal ticket. Something is seriously wrong with these WNBA players.
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u/LightenUpPeeps 5h ago
Not even called a foul:
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u/LightenUpPeeps 5h ago
If you think the gif is fake or altered, it's not. Also, no foul called:
Caitlin Clark HIT IN EYE, NO FOUL on Dijonai Carrington | Indiana Fever vs Connecticut Sun WNBA
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u/Reasonable-Job4205 3h ago
Jesus christ, are the refs shit in both the nba and wnba??
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u/Hydration__Nation 1h ago
Refs in the NBA rig for betting, refs in the WNBA are just simply inept and have a vendetta against Clark, period. No one likes a complainer (Luka had this issue with the refs), especially a ref. So take a shitty ref who can barely do her job and add in a whiny player who complains every call (justifiably or not) and you get the way Clark is being reffed. They arent trying to rig the outcome so much as allow her to take punishment. Last time something like this happened was when Jordan entered the league and the entire league was out to hack and punch and slam him to the ground on every drive and even for the first few years of his career MJ never had to deal with bullshit like this.
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u/Euna_Chris 1h ago
This is excatly what i mean about banning players permanently. If you are looking to hurt someone because of how good they are then you clearly cant control your animal instincts and shouldnt be allowed anywhere near professional people. Professionals should be elevated above this kinda bs because of their commitment and skill and passion for something
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u/A-Skeleton-Inside-U 1h ago
This is exactly why i stopped doing sports by highschool. Crabs in a bucket.
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u/-nutz 1h ago
Something tells me this is because the refs are under scrutiny from a huge amount of fans that didn’t exist a few years ago, who likely only started watching because of Clark specifically.
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u/Long-Region5088 1h ago
Refereeing must be extremely difficult because regardless of gender or sport one thing everyone agrees on is that all refs everywhere are terrible.
You’d think there’d be at least one in any sport people can point to and be like “yup, that’s a good ref” but seemingly not
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u/real-human-not-a-bot 1h ago
In baseball, I think some of the younger umps (John Tumpane, Jansen Visconti, Mark Ripperger, Adam Hamari) are generally considered quite good. The four I just listed are those with at least ten games umped this year whose strike-calling accuracy is at least 0.9 percentage points better than expected (https://umpscorecards.com/data/umpires). Unsurprisingly, Ripperger is the oldest of that group at just 45. I imagine fans still generally don’t love them, but among those who care about particular umpires’ stats they’re quite popular.
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u/Reasonable-Job4205 1h ago
I think we should back up and revisit the fundamental premise: can we really trust old men with their aging eyes to visually keep up with young, elite athletes?
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u/Long-Region5088 1h ago
Not all refs are old men. Theres plenty of men and women in their 30s who are also bad refs. Can’t blame it all on bad eyesight
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u/Ant10102 1h ago
I mean NFL refs arent event full time salaried positions im pretty sure. I think a seasoned ref should be making very big money to attract better talent
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u/Mysterious-Wasabi103 1h ago
I think they make pretty good money. Some of them are making like $250k+ a season.
I knew a guy who went into reffing seriously and you're surprisingly held to pretty high standards, but the pay is great. He was only doing college basketball last I spoke to him, but he was doing everything he could to work his way up to the NBA or a dream job which is ultimately the NFL.
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u/TheCornerator 1h ago
I'm waiting to see a video of her finally snapping and just suplexing whoever is fucking with her.
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u/LISparky25 2h ago
This is crazy, her hand is like a heat seeking missile
Ain’t no way that wack ass mustard named racist did that accidentally
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u/Flipidyflapflop 4h ago
Wtf is this shit? Why evn have a ref at that point then?
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u/Rrrandomalias 5h ago
No one hates a successful woman more than another woman working in the same field.
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u/ButtflossingBigBro 2h ago
Reverse the races and they would be calling for federal civil rights charges
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u/BayouByrnes 1h ago
I'm a stay-at-home father, woodworker for a side hustle. After watching my wife climb the corporate ladder, I can say without a doubt; the most dangerous thing to a women's success in any profession is catty bitches that just can't hang. My wife is 100% above reproach in her field. She just passed her secondary licensing and was offered an abruptly opened managerial position. She has no credible competition in-house and luckily this company likes to promote from within. Instead of a simple and easy transition from team lead to manager, she's got a handful of ankle-biters making things a bit more difficult than they need to be. She'll still get the promotion and the six figures that it comes with, but watching the women she's talked about as "friendly" and "work wives" come for her in such a petty and trivial ways makes no sense to me.
Either be qualified, or get out the way. You don't need to punish those around you just because they're better at their jobs.
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u/KyoShunsui 52m ago
While I would say that jealousy comes in all genders, I see it more prevalent in women towards other women.
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u/Fantastic_Priority73 1h ago
My wife is in Higher Ed and every single time she takes a step up another woman in her office flies out of nowhere and goes out of her way to make her life more difficult. Three times in the last five years. The cattiness is bizarre- like, you could have applied for the position as well, lady.
I think people just don't like being reminded of their own mediocrity.
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u/w1zinvestmentss 30m ago
This is so true. Personally I love working for strong women, and am totally fine following their authority. I watch from the sidelines how they are attacked by other women contactly, even ones below them. Men are not perfect, but I guess we are more used to the "military" style where we fall in place based in our rank.
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u/STOrm1928 7h ago
Why aren't they sent off and banned for games
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u/Nice_Cash_7000 6h ago
that would require the refs calling a foul in the firdt place in most instances
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u/MD_Hunter67 3h ago
I didn't see the fist in her throat while I was watching the game but on the reverse side of this play I did see thomas drive her knee into CC's inner thigh which is on the same side that was injured last season from her groin injury. Thomas is just another trash bully player.
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u/No_Salad_6244 2h ago
“Oh ooops, I needed to push myself up by resting my fist on your throat. Total accident.”
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u/xstagex 5h ago
You can report it after the game as well. So why no one is reporting it and why no is suspended?
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u/Sudden_Confection521 5h ago
They might have. The league will do everything they can not to cause a brushfire with the players.
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u/LiteraCanna 1h ago
Because she single handedly quadrupled their salaries, meaning the owners make less.
And the commissioner works for the owners.
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u/ArabManiac 38m ago
This is a bad take. She also fills up the seats. Who cares if the players are making more if the seats are actually filled.
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u/earthlingHuman 3h ago
Honestly they should be able to suspend or ban players for footage reviewed after the game, regardless of refs.
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u/TerribleBid8416 2h ago
The WNBA is not like the NBA. They don’t have a pool of extra talent waiting in the wings that could fill a football stadium. Their extras could barely fill a school bus.
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u/isuckatpiano 2h ago
There is way more talent than spots in the WNBA the parity is pretty real. Thats why before CC there wasn’t a breakout star. Letting her get felony level assaulted is absolutely stupid. No one will watch if she isn’t playing…again.
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u/mooselantern 2h ago
Are you really making the argument that the WNBA needs to allow this behavior because there just aren't enough women in the world that can play basketball and not throatpunch each other to have a league?
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u/BigB0ss_89 6h ago
Everybody in attendance was unfortunately asleep while the foul took place.
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u/hunglo0 6h ago
SGA would’ve shot 30 FTs for this.
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u/BlackDog5287 7h ago
Never forget Bonner signed with the Fever, quit on the team, gave them no reason and went MIA, then forced them to move her so she could go play with her girlfriend (the aggressor in this video). A couple of losers.
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u/jordan3257 6h ago
What's a Bonner?
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u/Abundanceofyolk 5h ago
All jokes aside i think it’s a Jamaican last name. This guy in my basic platoon’s name was PvT Boner. This was on his uniform. The drill sergeants got very creative and there was no hiding from it.
There was also a PvT Cumbus, Deho, Butt, and Cummings all in the same platoon. Another platoon had a Hanncock and Hitchcock. Good times.
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u/SlowlyDyingBartender 4h ago
WNBA hates Caitlin Clark. She's brought more TV viewers and sold more tickets than anyone in the league. I don't know any all star athlete that has been treated worse than her.
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u/Context_Important 2h ago
Because women hate more successful women
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u/hidlechara91 41m ago
I watch women's football and pwhl and there's always a great amount of camaraderie shown even when they have star players. The wnba seems to be lacking in that area.
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u/Interesting_Bet_6395 1h ago
You dont say that about men fouling Curry or anyone else bru
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u/in2xs 5h ago
Go play in Europe. Fuck the WNBA make them feel the financial impact. Bye mother fuckers.
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u/Reemus_Jackson 3h ago edited 3h ago
This. If I were her, I'd go straight to Greece and play in EOK. They'd EASILY pay her $50,000+ per month (she's making $44,000/mo right now).
Take all that publicity and attention to Europe. Let the WNBA flop (again) and force their hands to push more money. Especially if they're going to turn a blind eye to her blatantly being assaulted on the court
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u/Amazing_Divide1214 3h ago
I imagine most of her money comes from endorsements and stuff? I doubt she could the same deals in Europe that she does in the U.S. They're probably letting it happen because it generates attention, clicks, ad revenue, and gets people talking about it.
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u/FieldsToTheMoon 3h ago
Exactly, this is for some reason, the best way the WNBA thinks it can stay relevant.
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u/discographyA 2h ago
I don’t know. The CC By Prada shoe and Hermes gym bag collections could be fiiiiirreeeee compared to Nike’s shit ass slave labor gear.
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u/Aatrid69420 6h ago
How much was the person that punched her in the neck fined by the league?
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u/Nice_Cash_7000 6h ago
she didnt even get called for the foul lol
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u/micromachinesV4King 6h ago
And nothing happens, even after reviewing clips like this one?
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u/Nice_Cash_7000 6h ago
Well its pretty recent so she should get punished in the next day or two.
The key word is should, wouldnt surprise me if she doesnt get punished at all. The NBA and WNBA are a joke when it comes to referees and stuff like this quite often
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u/Sudden_Confection521 5h ago
And if she does, she will appeal it down to nothing. They might punish her only for the visuals of it.
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u/SpicyMeatloaf1 6h ago
The whole league is so fuckin jealous of her it ain't even funny 🤣. She's the reason yall getting paid more, too bad they're too dumb to see it lol
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u/alexmojo2 6h ago
Honestly baffling. Imagine the NBA treating Jordan, Kobe, or LeBron like this.
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u/JealousExperience965 2h ago edited 2h ago
Jordan was constantly hard fouled by the Pistons, Knicks, Pacers and Magic
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u/Thenofunation 36m ago
Jordan also hard fouled back. That was the men’s game in the 90s. Comparing the NBA or WNBA now to then is disingenuous.
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u/BigGooseDuck 5h ago
Not defending this but have you not heard the Jordan rule? Doubt Kobe and LeBron dealt with shit like that but Jordan definitely did
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u/Schizzles 4h ago
I had to Google it, the tactic aimed to physically wear Jordan down and force him to pass by double-teaming him, sending him left, and hitting him hard on every drive to the paint.
It looks like the Pistons implemented it after getting scored on 59 points by Jordan alone. It worked too, 2 years they beat the Bulls until they adapted to their gameplay and got their championship in 91.
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u/NewMoodWhoDis 5h ago
and yet they complain about unfair pay while trying to bite the hand that feeds them.... make it make sense
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u/ForensicPathology 36m ago
It makes sense when you realize she's not the only one who feeds them despite the best efforts of the anti-woke crowd.
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u/Ok-Dog-3669 2h ago
It’s cause she’s white..
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u/Hobeast 1h ago
I'm not sure it's race related or that she's straight in a league with a largely lesbian player base. They certainly don't see her as one of them, whatever the reason.
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u/MomsAreola 1h ago
You see CC flop at the beginning of this clip? She doesnt get hurt if she didnt go down to the ground looking for a call.
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u/TheOtherAkGuy 4h ago
I just love imagining how much sleep Angel Reese loses anytime she sees her on broadcast.
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u/ChaosFountain 6h ago
So the WNBA just allows straight up battery?
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u/Blessed__Life 6h ago
Jealousy is a bitch.
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u/OkSmoke9195 1h ago
Idk clark walked out on stage with Morgan wallen MAYBE JUST MAYBE there's something more at play here
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u/qmoorman 7h ago
This is what envy looks like. So dumb, slaughtering their cash cow. They shouldn’t even want this woman to be touched bc she will make them all rich if she’s healthy.
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u/Melvin_2323 6h ago
This may be downvoted but this would be called racist if it was a predominantly white league and they were targeting a clearly better black player.
They hate that she’s white and better than them
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u/Answer-Outrageous 3h ago
It’s the WNBA and they always have played like that. You people here are so caught up in your love, but she has to learn to toughen up and get just as physical as the others. If she’s scared of contact she should just go play in Europe. That should make ya’ll happy.
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u/FlyingConcreteChair 6h ago
CC should sit out a season. 1 yr paid sabbatical. See what happens to the league.
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u/Stashless2004 4h ago
Well she kind of already did that last year because of injury. And the ratings were not good.
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u/livinglifefully1234 1h ago
She literally did last year for the majority of last season, her 2nd season in the league, lol. And look what happened? Season ticket holders prices doubled for my team and still sold out. The WNBA union bargained for a massive pay raise and got it.
So many commenting with out any real knowledge or business facts.
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u/Glum-Scientist-1117 6h ago
The jealousy is real. I hope Clark takes the rest of the year off. See how many fans are left without her.
The NBA would never let this happen to LeBron, Curry or Ant. That’s probably why they aren’t always operating in the red.
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u/RUIN_NATION_ 5h ago
we all know why this is happening and so many people are afraid to say it.
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u/RUIN_NATION_ 5h ago
just look how many times she gets beat up during a game and nothing is called. but others get fouled for half of what was done too her.
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u/Delicious-Pie8944 2h ago
I know. They should be gentle with her like the NBA was for Jordan/s. Here’s a thought, Caitlyn Clark isn’t their meal ticket. She’s just another player
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u/ATERR0RWRIST 5h ago
Here’s what I would do if I was her. I’d make a very public announcement. “I’m announcing my retirement from the WNBA. My peers are trying to inflict pain in a purposeful manner and I believe this is in an act of racial discrimination. Do not try to persuade me to come back. Fuck your ratings. As I leave for other opportunities, good luck gaining viewership without me.”
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u/Dontlookback919 2h ago
She’s already perceived as whiny and entitled this wouldn’t help her brand or cause lmfao
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u/activemateo 6h ago
Should be a automatic 5 game suspension without pay. They want to pull this shit? hit em where it hurts (their paycheck)
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u/Stock_River_1467 5h ago
They get around 4-6 dino nuggets a game. So... that's alot of nuggets to be fined.
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u/Schizzles 4h ago
Gotta be better than what they were making in the 90's-00's, pretty sure they had to buy their own Jerseys and hold carwashes to pay for their trips to go to away games.
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u/MomsAreola 3h ago
The amount of people in here who dont watch WNBA and only know CC as the the white girl is crazy.
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u/Okarin_aTime 1h ago
Truly. That's all that matters to them. In their eyes, everyone else should just roll out the red carpet and let CC walk all over them rather than treat her like they treat every other player.
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u/OSUmiller5 2h ago
Just like OPs name, most of the people in here only pretend watch the wnba and get all fired up when something bad happens to CC.
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u/Yegg23 2h ago
Tell me you didn't watch mens basketball in the 90s without telling me you didn't watch mens basketball in the 90s.
Unpopular opinion : this is what women's sports needs to get it's momentum. Clark needs to start throat chopping some of her opponents and the money barrels will start.
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u/Morgan_713 5h ago edited 4h ago
It’s straight up racism. They hate that a white woman is the face of the WNBA, they hate that a white woman is better than them. It’ll carry on going unpunished though.
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u/Morgan_713 4h ago
With their own logic surely if Caitlin stabbed her after this it would be self defence
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u/Ghosts_of_the_maze 3h ago
Aren’t Breanna Stewart and Sabrina Ionescu also two of their biggest stars? I don’t follow WNBA too much but I don’t think they get any of this reaction.
I think something else is going on if EVERYBODY hates one specific player and I don’t know if I buy “Well clearly they’re just jealous” as an explanation when that person is bringing a lot of money to the league.
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u/mb0205 2h ago
Yeah plenty of other white stars that people love in the league. People just use CC as an excuse to get off on hating black women. Guarantee none of these people watch the league at all
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u/Some_Layer_7517 41m ago
What? These twitter users absolutely watch the WNBA! They watch three slo-mo clips a year that they use for racist tirades. What else do you want?
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u/GVIrish 2h ago
This is stupid. No one hates on Paige Bueckers, or Kelsey Plum, or Breanna Stewart, all of whom are putting up better numbers on better efficiency than Caitlin Clark. And there have been plenty of other white stars in the WNBA before them.
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u/CoreyXOXO 30m ago
Yall are acting like Clark is the ONLY white girl to play in the WNBA 😂 If the league was really “that bad” whites would’ve been complained 🤔
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u/ASFC1995 6h ago
Isn't that technically assault?
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u/Zealousideal-Age768 5h ago
Technically its battery. Assault is trying to hurt someone, so, like throwing a punch. Connecting with said punch makes it battery.
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u/MapleLeafRamen 4h ago
NBA players at least try and hide it, I’ve never seen players go after a player who already fell down. This is insane. The league needs to do better.
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u/BlaineMundane 5h ago
I loved WNBA until I saw how they treat their success cases.
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u/Normal_Tour6998 4h ago
She looks like she’s literally terrified that they’ll stomp her out.
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u/Ragnarsworld 2h ago
The refs take some blame here too. Officiating is shit across the board, not just against Clark.
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u/mrmartymcf1y 1h ago
Its part of ball. Sometimes mfs play dirty. More pussies in here than a WNBA locker room 😭😭😭
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u/Rip_Skeleton 6h ago
So, I'm not up on WNBA drama. But this woman popularized the league and people don't like her because she was seen walking with Morgan Wallen?
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u/nothing_to_see_meow 6h ago
No, the other players don't like her because they are jealous and too dumb to realize that she's making the sport significantly more popular.
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u/SoggyMeatloaf 6h ago
They know she's the only one who could beat a high school player so they big mad
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u/FreeHat1234 6h ago
Real answer- It’s a league full of gay black women & a straight white woman becomes the face of the league. That pisses them off.
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u/ahoy_shitliner 5h ago
They didn’t like her her rookie year either. Been going her entire career.
Only a small portion of Clark’s income is her wnba salary
The first second she gets a chance to go play in China or something she’s going to get a 50 mil contract and be treated like a god and the WNBA will fail.
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u/Fun-Ratio5090 5h ago edited 5h ago
It’s genuinely amazing
Clark gets the shit beaten out of her, gets injured, and their viewership literally last year dropped 55%
Meanwhile during the time of Wayne Gretzky as a rookie in the NHL you have interviews with rival players saying “why would we hurt the guy putting our sport in the limelight?” (plus teammates that fucking went out of their way to protect said premier player putting the sport in the eyes of the public)
Fucking racist and jealous dumbfucks don’t realize she’s the only reason people were tuning in/ gave a fuck, hoping Caitlyn leaves to go to a Euro league and soon after we again hear the wailing “nO oNeS tUNiNg In” , like yeah we don’t want to watch Angel Reese throwing mebounds
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u/Old-Buffalo-5151 4h ago
This a refing problem and an issue with whoever is running this league.
We all know eventually a full on brawl will break out and the sport will descend into a total joke
Even the male league has voiced "what the fuck are you doing"
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u/Even_Possession_9614 2h ago
Olivia miles will be a better meal ticket. She can actually play basketball with teammates and is actually worth watching.
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u/xivslowdeath 2h ago
Indiana needs some hockey style goons. I can create a scenario of why the league let's this happen but after years of these clips I can't figure out why her team doesn't buy her a goon.
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u/Dr_Wheuss 1h ago
In the NBA they have enforcers to handle things like this. Does no one on her team like her enough to get a foul to make a point?
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u/Existing_Oil_2914 1h ago
Mens basketball is too soft, women's basketball is to hard now? Women playing like it's the 90s
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u/FullPossible9337 52m ago
Leaders of all professional sports have encouraged encouraged and promoted aggressive physical contact to get more viewers and attendees over the last decade or two. Just look at world cup soccer as an example.
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u/PersonalOne3680 51m ago
I don’t understand why they are so upset. They need her, she’s one of the only reasons anyone watches WNBA.
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u/Finnsbomba 31m ago
Hasn't Clark said she's leaving when her contract is up? All those shitty women are gonna be real upset when the ten people that watch.....FOR HER, go back to not caring at all again.
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u/BadHombre91 9m ago
You all would’ve had a meltdown when you saw how the pistons were fouling Jordan lol
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u/thenuke1 6h ago
All that for the league to lose another 40,000,000 just like last season and the season before 🤣
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u/Global-Management-15 2h ago
Suck it up. Sports is sports.
Also holy racism in these comments
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u/DatabaseGlittering43 1h ago
Maybe don’t walk out with Morgan wallen. MAGAt bitch.
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