Michelle Obama weighs in on Caitlin Clark vs. Angel Reese WNBA rivalry

Clutch Sports ^ | 8/14/2025 | Ben Strauss

[simpson96]

Former First Lady Michelle Obama weighed in on the rivalry between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese during a recent interview.

“I think the tough thing is the social media element to it, but that’s true across the board,” Obama said Thursday via All The Smoke. “I mean, we’ve talked about this on our show. It just, you know, it just takes a normal occurrence. You know these young kids today, what they have to go through, what they have to be able to withstand because social media is such a huge part of their world.”

Obama seemed to suggest that social media is making the rivalry an even bigger stage. It makes the rivalry seem omnipresent, and makes it almost impossible to escape the opinions of either fanbase.

She added that neither player can entirely abandon social media because it financially benefits them.

“I mean, you know, there’s the hate, but now the hate is in your room on your phone with you all the time,” Obama added. “And you can’t, for whatever reason, tell these kids to turn it off because they’re making their living that way. I mean, that they now are expected to stay engaged. So, I think that makes it feel even worse. But, as you point out, that’s happening in sports across gender. It’s just harder now to withstand other people’s horrible, horrible opinions.”

While the Clark-Reese rivalry has generated a ton of interest in the WNBA, it clearly also has its drawbacks. That includes tempers flaring on the court, as the Fever and Sun experienced during their on-court altercation back in June. Caitlin Clark was at the heart of it all.

Both Clark and Reese are currently injured, with ESPN predicting that Reese will not return for the rest of the season.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: basketball; bigmike; morecaitlinnews; obama; sports; whogivesaratsass; wnba

[simpson96]

From later in the article... "Thankfully, the league’s viewership and attendance is still going strong"

[Bullish]

Without all this there would be nothing, and I mean nothing interesting about the jump shot contest known as the WNBA.

[rdcbn1]

I’m never fully informed on all the most controversial. Issues of the day until Michele Obama has weighed in on the topic

[blackdog]

I thought Britney Griner was more Michelle’s league.

[Larry Lucido]

“I don’t want to take a stand on anything, so here is a word salad.”

[Celtic Conservative]

And in the “Who TF cares?” department...

CC

[nickcarraway]

The rivalry is mostly made up by the media

[SuperLuminal]

Maybe Moochelle can be a replacement while Reese is injured...

[Nervous Tick]

Thank goodness Mooseshell OBarky told me how I should thank about this! I not so good at thankin’ and I nevah couldah done that thankin’ all by myssef...

[rfp1234]

Real WNBA fans want to know her opinion on flying green objects. .

[Old West Conservative]

“This is an outrageous invasion of privacy!!!”

— The Wookie Anti-Defamation League, probably.

[albie]

Gibberish. Pure gibberish. “You know” and “hate” are the key words in an attempt at uttering a coherent sentence. A total dumbass.

[JeanLM]

They really call the show “All the smoke”?
Couple of meanings to that one.

[Hyman Roth]

Moochelle weighs in alright. At 245.

[ssfromla]

That's racist of them to ask Michelle Obama. :P She's never played in the WNBA or High School as far as I know.

Are they asking just because she's black?

If it weren't for double standards they wouldn't have any standards at all.

[ballplayer]

Incoherent as would be expected from the lying fraud Moochelle

[Liz]

As they say.........”you can take her out of the
ghetto.....but you cant take the ghetto out of her.”

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

“You know?” I guess I don’t.

[bray]

Typical political non-answer answer.

[Racketeer]

I wonder how many of the kids and young adults did not ever, I mean EVER, spend anytime, especially overnight, in the woods and forests, learning about what I call “natural solitude”?