Caitlin Clark's race 'is a huge thing' in her rise in popularity, claims WNBA star A'ja Wilson: 'Boils my blood'

Daily Mail UK ^ | 5/13/2024 | Jake Fenner

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'I think it's a huge thing. I think a lot of people may say it's not about Black and white, but to me, it is,' Las Vegas Aces star A'ja Wilson said when asked in an interview with the Associated Press about the race element in Clark's popularity and before she recently signed two major endorsement deals.

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[FreedomPoster]

That’s a keeper!

[chiller]

gotta agree...look at what happened to Michael Jordan

fool

[supremedoctrine]

I posted this story to my Facebook, suggesting among many other things that Caitlin was in effect the female Larry Bird.-—took awhile but to the man, his competitors had to admit they were in awe of him and he was every bit as good as any of them, and actually better in a lot of ways: they also admired his trash-talking skills, just another part of his complete arsenal. I have been watching some YouTube stuff lately and I agree with that assessment.But it’s A’ja Wilson who is specifically playing the race card, in a way that Bird’s competitors never did.Think of her as another “Child of Obama” carrying forward the putrid, intentionally counter-productive “legacy” of grievance, so inelegantly practiced by Michelle.If Ms. Wilson had made as big a splash as Caitlin,SHE would have gotten the hoopla Caitlin got, and the contract-—(Ms. Wilson DID get a signature shoe named after her and some endorsements,but some of that seems to be the work of attack dogs masquerading as journalists snarling for it from her corner. But both she and her supporters lack the subtlety of mind to consider that maybe Caitlin got some of the attention FIRST AND FOREMOST because of her skills and the numbers/stats she racked up, but ALSO owing to her being SO GOOD as a white player in the newer venue of the WNBA==which as far as I can see is as dominated by black females as the regular NBA is dominated by black males. Obviously I am asking too much to expect any of them to see the subtle irony of that. In any event, what this creep Wilson has done is set the table for a very tense match-up when these two teams meet one another. It’s gonna be ugly, ugly, ugly, and it’s already ugly enough,

[FrankRizzo890]

Isn’t she a “Triple negative” for them? White, Nice, AND Straight? Oh, and Christian? THE HUMANITY!

[USS Alaska]

Dončić and Jokić are both in the league but they're from Slovenia and Serbia and I don't think Americans can relate to them.

Why not?

If you can't "relate to them" what ever the hell that means, that is a personal problem.

[Svartalfiar]

'I think it's a huge thing. I think a lot of people may say it's not about Black and white, but to me, it is,' Las Vegas Aces star A'ja Wilson said

That's a commentary on you, not everyone else. If you're the one seeing it in terms of black and white, that makes you the colorist, not the rest of us.

Bird, Nowitzski, etc weren't popular just because they were white...

[MortMan]

Something about garden implements with shaggy carpet covering, I think.

[JimRed]

We hates us some white chick in our game!

[JimRed]

The athletes thought that Bird couldn’t play when he started, until he started upping them at their own game.

And had there been a three point line back then...

[nickcarraway]

Chinese basketball always sets me free.