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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Chennedy Carter needs to be Kerriganed
Same in a basket of crabs, too. Don't matter to me one way or another.
Those players who genuinely welcome Caitlin into the game expose the depraved hearts of those who do not.
I’ve played in bands and orchestras. Never saw anything like it in those settings.
Of course, in music, you can tell if someone’s “got it” or not in about three seconds after they start playing. There’s no question about it, and there’s no way to fake it.
“such as NBA legends like Michael Jordan and LeBron Jame”
I remember watching Larry Bird getting hit by a cheap shot.
A few plays later Parrish clothes-lined the dude!
The issue you mentioned is surely the main issue, race being no more than a sideshow.
Peeps with handles sounding like yours rarely have interesting athletic histories.
And rarely speak about team sports with any credibility.
Just sayin’.
Clarke may not be “cottoning” enthusiastically enough to the militant brand of same that utterly dominates the WNBA. And that by now is probably demanding rookies not only approve of the behavior in question, but participate.
So it's like prison?
who said that
The WNBA doesn’t “need” that BS. That is not happening.
“orange is the new black” series on Netflix.
Oh okay...prison, as in, no choice, physically forced
No.
But, for what it’s worth, all the COVID world, with it’s fantasies of universal vexxationation, was “akin to” a jail.
Your question is a good one.
Clarke should start a “straight” league.
But if it was someone else, similar to CC. But a "no name". Call it the rite of passage. You may have been straight in college. Maybe you came from Iowa.
Now you have to show them that you're a part of the team.
“Fix where you live”
What, exactly, is not happening, as you say?
She’s white right? Well, there ya’ go.
It’s nothing much deeper than that. A bunch of rotten little racists making whitey pay.
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