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Diana Taurasi admits she took an L on Caitlin Clark prediction: ‘Reality is coming to me now’
New York Post ^ | April 7, 2025 | Camden Markel

Posted on 04/07/2025 1:34:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Diana Taurasi is eating her words. After telling the world that “reality is coming” for Caitlin Clark when she was entering the WNBA after her legendary collegiate career at Iowa, the now-retired Taurasi is walking back those comments.

“Thank you, unfortunately, reality is coming to me now,” Taurasi said in response to Clark congratulating her on retirement on the “Bird & Taurasi Show” broadcast during Sunday’s NCAA national championship game.

Caitlin Clark proved a lot of people wrong in her first WNBA season — and Taurasi was one of them. “Reality is coming [for Clark]. There’s levels to this thing,” Taurasi said a year ago, before Clark had stepped foot on a WNBA court. “You look superhuman playing against 18-year-olds, but you’re going to [be playing against] some grown women that have been playing professional basketball for a long time.”

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: morecaitlinnews

1 posted on 04/07/2025 1:34:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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The WNBA was mostly going through the motions and Caitlyn Clark forced them to up their game. That’s what made the women angry at her. She showed them up.


2 posted on 04/07/2025 1:37:09 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I can promise I can land any plane that is in the air, because gravity only moves in one direction.)
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Taurasi is one of the greatest female basketball players ever, but she was wrong on Caitlin Clark.
Same with Swoopes.
Only Swooopes was nasty and racist.
3 posted on 04/07/2025 2:07:55 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Taurasi is one of the greatest players of the WNBA that virtually no one watched or attended ... until Caitlin.


4 posted on 04/07/2025 2:16:33 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Love watching videos of Clarke sinking 3 pointers from waaaaay downtown.

Re: all of the physical attacks on Clarke. These are not fouls, they are attacks. I wish that her team would hire an enforcer/protector, a la ice hockey. Could be the reincarnation of Joanie Weston from Roller Derby.


5 posted on 04/07/2025 2:25:41 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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Good
Kiss and make up ladies
Good for their game


6 posted on 04/07/2025 2:34:24 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Chery Miller wasn’t wrong about her.


7 posted on 04/07/2025 2:35:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway ( )
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I like Cheryl; I’ve had some good times with her.

In working with basketball we usually had the women’s trials first. I got used to it. When the men showed up, it was like comparing prop aircraft to F-15’s.


8 posted on 04/07/2025 4:09:58 PM PDT by Loud Mime ("The Real Constitution" on Amazon. We are not right wing - we are constitutional centrists.)
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