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The Outsider the WNBA Cannot Forgive: The Caitlin Clark Problem
The Enterprise ^ | 25/7/26 | Alexander Muse

Posted on 07/26/2026 4:22:06 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

There is an old principle, which economists call revealed preference, holding that we discover what people truly value not from what they announce but from what they do. A man may say he prefers the symphony, but if every free evening finds him at the ballpark, we have learned something his words concealed. Institutions reveal themselves the same way. A league may praise its brightest star, sell her jersey, and run her highlights, and yet, if we watch what it does when she is knocked to the floor and when its honors are handed out....

Let us begin with the value, because the value is not in dispute....

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Consider first the matter of physical safety, because it is the gravest. In June of 2024 the Chicago player Chennedy Carter lowered her shoulder and drove Clark to the hardwood, away from the ball, after the whistle, on a play that had nothing to do with the game in progress. The officials called a common foul in real time and declined to review it. Only the next day, when the cameras had made indifference impossible, did the league upgrade the call to a flagrant, and even then it imposed no fine and no suspension. Sports Illustrated’s women’s basketball coverage counted four Chicago flagrants against Clark in 2024 alone, a remarkable concentration of violence on one player. Then came the playoffs, and the pattern held. Less than two minutes into her first postseason game, Connecticut’s DiJonai Carrington caught Clark squarely in the eye. No foul was called. Clark, who later developed a visible bruise, played half-blind through a blowout loss. In 2025 an eye poke and a hard shove to the floor produced, once again, a foul upgraded after the fact with no suspension, while Clark herself collected a technical...

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TOPICS: Reference; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: caitlinclark; civilrightsviolation; consequences; flagrant; morecaitlinnews; wnba
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Caitlin should just document her injuries, quit, and sue the MoFos. It might bankrupt the league. Good. Before trans men discover it and use real brawn to hurt somebody badly, maybe even Caitlin Clark.

I don't GAGS for sports altogether, but this is getting sick now.

1 posted on 07/26/2026 4:22:06 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

If she leaves the WNBA is done


2 posted on 07/26/2026 4:29:15 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: butlerweave

Good. Atlas sometimes should shrug.


3 posted on 07/26/2026 4:31:04 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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To: butlerweave

She is under contract through the 2027 season.


4 posted on 07/26/2026 4:31:31 PM PDT by maro (MAGA!)
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To: Eleutheria5

This is important if you think that the WNBA violence is real, and not staged like professional wrestling or Rollerball. Maybe the league could just issue a jammer helmet to identify the primary target.


5 posted on 07/26/2026 4:35:28 PM PDT by Bernard (“Insanity in individuals is something rare…but in groups, <SNIP> it is the rule." Nietzsche)
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To: butlerweave

No, even with Clark gone that league will survives due the NBA along with other subsidiaries. Also the league has a lot of talent which reflect in the non-Clark attendance records.


6 posted on 07/26/2026 4:38:41 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Not this world but the next. Faith, justice, humility, hope, and most important, agape.)
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To: maro

Well maybe she should ride it out until the end of her contract, then go to work at ESPN. Might save her life.


7 posted on 07/26/2026 4:38:49 PM PDT by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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To: Eleutheria5

That Carrington poked Caitlin Clark in the eye. Could have blinded her. Others have blocked her fall trajectory after jump, endangering her with potential broken bones or a spinal injury.

Those attacks are unforgivable.

If she dies or is seriously injured I want crowds to block entrance to further games.

I’m old now and I didn’t do anything against the people after the OJ case or for my lifelong (since 1968) grudge for a personal run in which I somehow survived. But I’m 80 and I want to live to see justice.


8 posted on 07/26/2026 4:47:56 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Brittney Greiner is a man. Trannies are already in the league


9 posted on 07/26/2026 4:52:44 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification;)
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To: Eleutheria5

You would think that Herbert Simon, the owner of the Indiana Fever would be concerned about this asset.


10 posted on 07/26/2026 4:53:08 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: maro

Failing to assure her safety while performing under that contract, is a breach. She should quit, sue and go for punitive.


11 posted on 07/26/2026 4:53:54 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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“Brittney Greiner is a man. Trannies are already in the league”

Why am I not surprised. Not too late to be disgusted, though.


12 posted on 07/26/2026 4:55:17 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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To: Eleutheria5

When he was in Russia and arrested for dope, they put in a male prison, and the media got sooo upset.


13 posted on 07/26/2026 5:00:02 PM PDT by norsky ( <P> <h3> <P><img src=" "width =500" <P><h3> <P> <a href= > </a> )
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OMG. In Russia, you’re lucky to leave prison alive. Navalny froze to death in prison (”embolism” in leg is how freezing to death works).


14 posted on 07/26/2026 5:03:17 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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Greiner was arrested for drugs in Russia. After conviction, Upon strip search, the Russians promptly placed him in men’s prison. Biden moved mountains to get him back in the US to avoid bad publicity. Greiner then impregnated his “lesbian” girlfriend


15 posted on 07/26/2026 5:05:37 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification;)
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To: norsky

Yep!


16 posted on 07/26/2026 5:06:24 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification;)
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To: Bernard

What little i’ve watched of the WNBA, and i’ve only watched a little because of Sophi Cunningham, it is a physical league and makes the NBA players look like they are playing patty-cake...

Of course we all know Caitlin Clark is like the people who killed Emmitt Till....

“Dave Portnoy called for the firing of a USA Today columnist who compared WNBA star Caitlin Clark to the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, arguing the writer belongs in an “insane asylum” for the piece.

Speaking on “Varney & Co.,” the Barstool Sports founder ripped into columnist Nancy Armour, declaring her comparison between Indiana Fever star Clark and the murder of Black teen Emmett Till the “craziest thing” he’s seen in more than two decades of sports media.

“We’ve got to put her in a straightjacket. You’ve got to find the nearest institution. You’ve gotta put this author away and throw away the key,” Portnoy said Friday.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/dave-portnoy-usa-today-writer-belongs-insane-asylum-caitlin-clark-emmett-till-comparison


17 posted on 07/26/2026 5:07:10 PM PDT by God luvs America
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To: Eleutheria5

This should help her.

18 posted on 07/26/2026 5:10:02 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

She looks more manly than the big ZERO.


19 posted on 07/26/2026 5:14:57 PM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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To: Eleutheria5

You want her to be French?


20 posted on 07/26/2026 5:22:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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