Different situation but relevant.
Posted on 06/02/2024 9:34:00 PM PDT by lasereye
As my colleague Bonchie covered, college basketball phenom Caitlin Clark is receiving a rough welcome to the WNBA. She’s been receiving hard—dangerous—fouls at an alarming rate.
Why? You be the judge. But it certainly seems like jealousy and resentment are the driving forces behind much of the hate she’s received.
She’s deserving of her accolades; this is not someone who’s getting attention just for her looks or for her social media profile—she’s the real deal:
Top-seeded Iowa, which reached the NCAA title game for the second consecutive season, ended the season at 34-5. Clark finished with 30 points Sunday - scoring 18 in the first quarter, the most in a period in a national championship game. She ends her career with 3,951 points. She averaged 31.6 PPG this season and 28.4 over 139 career games.Clark's season has included milestones and broken records.
In a 17-day span from Feb. 15 to March 3, Clark broke Kelsey Plum's record to become the all-time women's NCAA Division I scoring leader, passed AIAW legend Lynette Woodard for the major college scoring record, and passed LSU legend Pete Maravich for most career points in Division I history for men and women.
But is this basketball or something far uglier?
Former Los Angeles Laker Matt Barnes—no stranger to controversy himself—is calling out the discrimination in no uncertain terms. Where the heck are her teammates, Barnes wants to know (warning: graphic language):
Why isn’t her club protecting her? Barnes:
I mean, throughout the season she's been getting beat up. Hard screens, elbows knocked down. It is what it is. She's not the first. She won't be the last. My issue and my question is where the **** are her teammates at?Where y'all at—where the rest of the Indiana fever at?
The whole Caitlin Clark controversy has been an ugly thing to watch unfold. She is a generational basketball player, one of the best to ever play the game, yet her success has brought out the racists and the dividers as they try to tear her down. What should be a great moment for the WNBA has proven to divide people:
Barnes is appalled:
I’ve seen a couple of girls smirk when she’s got knocked down, half-ass to pick her up. Like, y’all supposed to protect the asset, protect the star. And although this is a team, you always protect your star. I was someone who protected the stars. You f–k with Kobe, [Chris Paul], Blake [Griffin], the list goes on, it’s going to be a problem...
Barnes sums up his rant succinctly:
Got to do better, ladies.
He’s absolutely right. The WNBA, never a popular league, may just be watching its hope of relevancy circling the drain. Clark deserves to be challenged, just like any new player, but what we're seeing is way beyond the pale.
No one is making them accept men.
Probably doesn’t want to be a target.
Different situation but relevant.
Intimidated?
“My issue and my question is where the **** are her teammates at?”
“And although this is a team, you always protect your star.”
Amen brother.
I was saying the same thing about Republican congressmen and president Trump.
“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.” - Fulton J. Sheen
In tonight’s game she scored just 3 points.
= = =
Did she get any assists?
Her cowardly team mates wouldn’t stand up for her because they’re a bunch of pussies.
I still remember a 1977 SI article headlined “Nobody, but nobody, is gonna hurt my teammates” with a full-page face shot of one Darryl Dawkins.
In hockey, you better be ready to throw down if another team tries to take out your star player.
Caitlin’s teammates need to learn to watch her back.
Maybe it’s a women versus a man thing even in high school there was a code on any team I ever played for and that was you take a cheap shot on one of my teammates I’m taking a cheap shot on you
You rarely see women fighting in a sporting event but it happens quite often in men’s sports, hockey allows fighting and has a long history of enforcers
I think it was Marty Mcsorley who played along side Wayne Gretzky for years and his job was to fight anyone who took a shot at Gretzky
Wait, are they saying that women play professional basketball? Whoulda thunkit?
Sad to say, but I suspect the majority of Caitlyns teammates are probably jealous of her too. If this is the case, their Coach is failing by allowing Catty behavior to start ruling the team.
She is being punished for cultural appropriation. She plays better than her black teammates. Basketball is a BLACK preserve. White girls have no right to be better than black girls.
Update!
WNBA Player Who Appeared to Call Caitlin Clark a “B*tch” and Delivered Cheap Shot Shows Zero Remorse — Now Liking and Reposting Tweets Justifying Attack
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/wnba-player-who-appeared-call-caitlin-clark-btch/
because they’re a bunch of ………
At least we’re sure of that til the trannies show up…..
Good question. It wouldn’t surprise me to see her drummed out of the league.
Hopefully she will be able to keep some of her endorsements as compensation.
Let the league fold if this happens. Didn’t care before Caitlin, but I will definitely not care afterwards.
If the league doesn’t protect her she will get injured at some point. She should walk away from it if that happens.
I thought Caitlin was offered a sizable amount of money for a venture instead of the WNBA. Shows her courage to stay with the WNBA, but at this point, she’s in harm’s way each and every WNBA game. And the league won’t protect her. This will likely have a bad ending for her that will have black Americans cheering.
Many WNBA players may resent her 28 million dollar contract with Nike. I think average WNBA player make about 80 k a year. To earn that, a player would have to play 350 years....Plus, Caitlin is very good...the only way to beat her is by Thugette ball..
Her brand of lady basketball is superior to the WNBA brand. She could start her own league utilizing her style ( good passing, easy layups, good free throws,accurate long 3 point shooting,). That style is actually attractive as it emphasizes skill, quickness, agility, forethought, consistency....kind of reminds me of the Lakers of the 80’s and Larry Bird type of playing style..without the D, and the obvious size, quickness, and strength differences.
The NBA owns 50 % of WNBA, and gives it a 15 million dollar stipend yearly. I am sure there are more than a few companies who would buy into a non Thugette league and raise more money than that...Clark has to endure a few more years and get her own players....international stars, intelligent players...good bball games...put an inferior WNBA to rest.
IMHO
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