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WATCH: Cheap Shout Foul On Basketball Superstar Caitlin Clark Generates Controversy
A dramatic moment unfolded during Saturday’s WNBA contest between the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky when rising superstar Caitlin Clark was shoved to the ground.
Midway through the second half of Saturday’s Mystics guard Chennedy Carter can be seen advancing towards Clark before lowering her shoulder and throwing her to the ground. An alternate angle of the incident found that Carter appeared to call Clark a “b**ch” before initiating the contact.
Astonishingly, the foul was not upgraded to a technical despite a clear off-ball foul and taunting displayed by Carter.
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Saturday’s game marked the first time that Clark squared off against her college nemesis, Angel Reese, at the pro-level. Reese’s LSU Tigers defeated Clark’s Iowa Hawkeyes in a dramatic championship finish in 2023, leading to some taunting from Reese at the end of the game.
Iowa managed to get revenge on LSU in the following season, though the team still came up short in the championship against Dawn Staley’s vaunted South Carolina Gamecocks.
Clark — who has drawn record number of viewers to both women’s college basketball and the WNBA — has been on the receiving end of racially motivated attacks and criticism since becoming the first overall pick in the league.
Former ESPN host Jemele Hill suggested that Clark is only popular because she is white, an opinion that was echoed by “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin.
“Caitlin Clark is bringing this money, these sponsorships, we hope, into the league and other players will benefit from it. But I do think that she is more relatable to more people because she’s white, because she’s attractive,” Hostin said.
“And unfortunately, there still is that stigma against the LGBTQ+ community. 70 percent of the WNBA is black. A third of the players are in the LGBTQ+ community,” she continued. “And we have to do something about that stigma in this country. I think that people have a problem with basketball playing women that are lesbian.”
In March, Clark became the all-time leading scorer in the NCAA’s Division 1 — male or female — passing Hall of Famer “Pistol” Pete Maravich.
She has continued to draw record viewing numbers with the WNBA, as last month’s contest between Clark’s Indiana Fever and the New York Liberty drew 1.96 million viewers, a new record for ABC and ESPN.
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