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.
I have tried. Lord knows I have tried to watch the WNBA. But it’s like watching a junior high game at the local YMCA. Granted there are very few exceptions but the basic product sucks. A rebound or any loose ball is like watching surveillance video of Black Friday at the Walmart. Arms, legs, hair flying everywhere and the preening for the cameras as they go to the free throw line is way too funny.
Women are not "team players". Two men can dislike each other intensely and work together for a common goal. Women are too competitive and too prone to jealousy.
An ugly truth: Black women especially hate and envy white women. Hence the preference for black women on the OJ jury. Nicole had it coming for "stealing" a rich and attractive black man. "White girl bleed a lot."
An attribute lacking both physically and metaphorically from Caitlin's teammates. Isn't that the whole point?
Yep.....plus they don’t have that white hair. Life is often all about the hair......
They need to bring in Dennis Rodman
Dennis would dye his hair into a rainbow, wear a dress, grab every rebound, and kick the ball back out to her for another 3 point attempt
On offense, the other three players just get out of their way
Usually, the college coach is a dictator. Not sure why it's not the same in the WNBA.
Britney Griner has entered the chat..
The knappy heads and dykes hate the pretty white girl.
OY!!!
My dad is overwhelmed with CC’s talent - he told me about all of these 3 pt shots s/he was making in a game. I watched reruns from my kitchen on the living room tv and at that distance it looked like a dude to me making effortless half court shots.
THAT NECK. I just can’t unsee it. The length and the width plus those huge muscle bands. In all the pics in this article, I just see nothing female here. But, hey, to each his own - unless he treads on female territory and the actual females don’t like it.
Darrell Dawkins Chocolate Thunder! Great guy. Went to high school with him, Maynard Evans High. He was one year behind me.
I thought that the WNBA could play games in a Waffle House and still have empty seats at game-time.
I just don’t get the appeal of watching women fight each other.
Hazing initiation
That’s because most black men seem to prefer white women over black women.
Can you blame them?
Meanwhile 22 is the new 42. Clark takes all the this with the grace of Jackie Robinson. While the old WNBA whined their audience share — and pay — didn’t look like America, it did look like their diversity. Rookie Clark is drawing unprecedented attention and marketing dollars, but had also drawn more fans to her games — by a factor of four IIRC. And, even though as yet rarely winning, she is delivering the promised spectacular plays. The envious haters wanted fame and fortune, for looking NOT like America. Letting in an exemplar of All-American values upends their bigoted tiny club and shows what the reverse of their values are worth.
Imagine the press if she were black and the attackers were white.
Clark is playing with thugs who hate her.
I’m not a basketball fan, so I don’t watch any games, but from what I understand, Clark has brought some new fans to the league. The higher visibility is a good opportunity for growth, but if the games aren’t engaging, and the star attraction doesn’t perform to expectations, they’ll lose those new fans pretty quickly.
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