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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Allowed behavior like this flows from the top down. The Commissioner could put a stop to it by making the penalties for physically abusive behavior so severe that the offenders would abuse themselves out of a job. The indicator to me is the behavior of the refs who are getting their marching orders from the top.
I am not sure why she would do such a thing. Most of her money is from endorsements. Nike is paying her an estimated $28M over 8 years. She has other big endorsements as well.
You couldn’t pay me enough to watch a ball game of any sort. But she is definitely a gifted athlete. Maybe she should go for track and field, or as long as she’s getting knocked around, take up MMA. I wish her well, anyway.
She looks more masculine than he does.
How much money is needed before the insults and injuries end a career?
That would be up to her..
Can’t have striaght white girls. That ruins the league.
Hear, Hear!!
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One can pick and choose WNBA highlights and find clips out of context that forward a narrative that angry lesbians are headhunting Clark. Most of them are just normal play. Is racism a component? Perhaps, but that angle is overblown. Is there jealousy? Of course. Is the WNBA promoting violence against CC? Of course not.
The picture you posted was definitely a cheap shot. I watched the entire sequence. When the play was reviewed the perpetrator was suspended for a game. She pushed off Clark using her closed fist. Didn’t hit her. Didn’t choke her.
Basketball is a physical sport, especially women’s hoops because most of the players are awkward and don’t have the grace and physical tools of their male counterparts. Have you ever even held a basketball since high school P.E.?
Caitlyn Clark can take care of herself, without Grassley, Obama, and others riding to her rescue.
Liable to be gettin’ ideas, puttin’ on airs and being uppity./lol
Thanks for outing yourself as an apologist for black female homosexual thugs...good to know for all us Conservative freepers.
Clearly your "logic" inspired this classic...
Name calling means you have lost the discussion.

TRUTH: black female homosexual feral animal attacking Caitlin Clark
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