Posted on 05/19/2025 1:29:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
At first, it seemed that the Indiana Fever’s home win over Chicago Sky on Saturday would be just another spicy chapter in the rivalry between Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark. Both players were typically excellent: Clark spurred the Fever to victory with a triple-double, while Reese grabbed 17 rebounds to go with her 12 points.
But it was a moment in the third quarter that WNBA fans will be talking about for weeks to come. Some of them may even do so without resorting to cheap bigotry. With 4:38 remaining, Clark reached for the ball over Reese’s head, made what appeared to be deliberate contact with her arm, and sent her opponent spiraling to the floor. There was a brief confrontation, Clark was hit with a flagrant foul and Reese received a technical. After the game, Clark said she didn’t have cynical intent leading up to the foul, and Reese agreed calling it “a basketball play.”
Depending on who you ask, the moment was either enthralling or disappointing. Fans may recall conversations about the physicality of the WNBA last season, as Clark was knocked around the court by veterans. It showed that women’s basketball is every bit as tough as the men’s game, and sometimes a foul is just a foul.
A moment like this isn’t always bad for anyone involved, including the players. Many say that these types of exchange drive up engagement, whether online or by attracting fans to WNBA arenas, which have enjoyed record attendance since Reese and Clark entered the league last season.
But there are, of course, different types of engagement. The increase in attention, scrutiny, and discourse can quickly take a downward turn, especially when women are involved.
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C'mon man! this is the 21st century. She could get an addadicktome and play for the NY Knicks!
This thing has been in the news for several days, but it was just this morning that I saw what happened ten seconds BEFORE the foul. An opposing team player landed an elbow into the back of a Fever team player’s head, knocking her down. Flagrant and should’ve been a tech. Caitlin called it out and then the video we’ve all seen begins. Pathetic. We should’ve seen the entire thing days ago.
Imagine that. Keyboard warriors acting up. On social media. About sports. In the meantime, the Waffle House Basketball Association is still trying to find an audience. (Especially a paying audience.) I still haven't seen anybody wearing WNBA shirts or hats anywhere.
A stitch in time saves nine, so they say.
Precisely
I’d like to see these to Harris voters in a cage fight.
If the refs would call Angel Reese for traveling, double-dribbling and discontinuing her offensive numbers would decrease. The WNBA refs are terrible.
This was pretty straight hoops. Someone commits a bad foul that doesn’t get called and you foul them hard to keep them from scoring as a result.
This is the gratitude she gets for claiming She has white privilege and saying that she stands on the shoulders of Black women
The Guardian
LEFT WING RAG
“ The majority of her team members (coaches included), seem to hate her guts, and root for her failure,”
That’s not true at all.
You may be correct. I’m going by the many news stories I have heard about Caitlin being treated badly on the basketball court. Maybe when all goes well, that rarely gets reported.
For her sake, I hope I am wrong.
“ For her sake, I hope I am wrong.”
Her team supports and values her.
Caitlyn got in the weight room and put on muscle
Instead of complaining about being targeted , she took action to get stronger .
Winners attitude
That’s good!
Also just saw the press conference with Angel girl
She greatly played down what happened .
So, ONCE AGAIN, we have the media creating controversy and trying to get people to hate each other
“The Guardian
Left Wing Rag”
The Guardian smears all Americans as Racist, saying one basketball foul out of the 2 billion interactions that happen every day in America shows how we are all truly racist. The Guardian is obviously a pink nationalist institution.
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