Posted on 06/06/2024 1:26:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Are Caitlin Clark's fellow WNBA players unfairly targeting the star rookie, or is the most-hyped young player in the league's history simply paying her dues?
One of the most respected voices in women's college basketball and the sport as a whole, longtime UConn head coach Geno Auriemma, is squarely in the former camp.
"Is she facing the rookie challenge, the rookie hardships that are inherent with being a rookie? Yes," Auriemma told reporters Tuesday, via ESPN. "She's also being targeted."
The debate over how Clark's opponents are treating her cranked up after Chicago Sky guard Chennedy Carter body-checked Clark to the ground late in the Indiana Fever's 71-70 win over the Sky on Saturday, as teammates — including Clark's former college rival Angel Reese — appeared to applaud from Chicago's bench.
Some, including FS1's Colin Cowherd and Chris Broussard and longtime NBA player Jamal Crawford, believe Clark is just going through the necessary adversity that someone heralded as a star often endures, such as NBA legends like Michael Jordan and LeBron James in the early portions of their careers.
Auriemma addressed that line of thinking, saying that while he understands the argument, he believes the treatment of Clark has crossed a line.
"I don't remember when Jordan came into the [NBA], guys looking to go out and beat him up," Auriemma said. "I don't remember when [Larry] Bird and Magic [Johnson] came in the league and elevated the NBA, them getting targeted and getting beat up just because of who they were and the attention they were getting.
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She needs to pay for the imaginary sins of her ancestors.
Cailin Clark needs to start her own CCBA, and compete against the WNBA. She would destroy the WNBA, which nobody knows about anyway. CC has given them the popularity which they never had.
The idiots in league management are killing the Golden Goose because they are stupid thugs.
My guess is that they’re too woke to do anything.
I’d like to boycott the WNBA, but is it really boycotting if I never paid them any attention before?
I remember a younger Bill Laimbeer getting in a beef with Detroit star Bob Lanier and sucker punching him once; Don’t remember any race blowback or much controversy at all over that?
Rick Mahorn and Laimbeer were kind of the thugs on the Pistons team for a while.
Same here. I'm only paying attention because of CC.
From what I read Chennedy Carter was kicked off the first two teams she played with due to being an asshole.
While I am certain the black/white issue is the cause of much of the attention from her opponents, she is also a practicing Catholic and a large percent of the league is homosexual. I’m sure that doesn’t help.
On the other hand, Kermit Washington got a LOT of blowback after clobbering Rudy Tomjanovich, and the Lakers traded him shortly after.
I’m sure that they would absolutely adore Riley Gaines if she were good enough to play basketball in that league, lol.
Suck it up, sunshine. Welcome to the big leagues.
I don’t know if Rebecca Lobo is Catholic, but she is certainly a practicing woman. She thinks the controversy is overblown.
Young college stars come in to the NBA and get clocked by vets - Charles Barkley was just talking about how Maurice Lukas hammered him in his rookie year playing the Blazers. He went to Moses Malone who told him he’d better return the favor, and do it immediately. Someone needs to tell Caitlin Clark the same thing. She’s coming to the WNBA with a big name, and vets don’t like rookies with bigger names than them.
Ghettos are in people's heads.
If the residents of suburban subdivisions were forced to trade places with the residents of inner-city ghettos, within five years the inner city neighborhoods would be clean and inviting and bustling with productive activity, and the suburban subdivisions would look like ghettos.
As someone who spent more than a decade around women’s collegiate sports—this is not her first time around lesbians. College sports, at every level, is full of them.
So basically the same as prison culture. Ok, fine.
Yeppers
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