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Leftists Would Rather The WNBA Cease To Exist Than Watch Caitlin Clark Succeed
The Federalist ^ | 06/17/24 | Shawn Fleetwood

Posted on 06/17/2024 8:27:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Clark’s fellow players would rather the WNBA collapse than give her a modicum of credit for bringing attention to the sport.

I never thought the day would come when the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) would be newsworthy enough to write about. But in an era where deranged leftists think men can become women and get pregnant, I suppose anything is possible.

The story in question centers around an incident that occurred during a Sunday matchup between the Chicago Sky’s Angel Reese and Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark. Most Americans are likely familiar with Clark for her dominating performance at the University of Iowa last year, in which she smashed numerous NCAA records and won several accolades. In her senior year alone (2023-2024), Clark not only scored the most points in a single season in Division I women’s college basketball history, but she also became the all-time NCAA Division I scoring leader for women and men’s college basketball.

While driving to the basket in the 3rd quarter of Sunday’s game, Clark was flagrantly fouled by Reese, who rammed her arm into the Iowa alum’s head on her way up to the basket. Clark fell to the ground and was later helped up by her teammates.

The potshot wasn’t a first for Reese, who seemingly elbowed Clark during another game earlier this month.

A Wave of Hate

Like with any sport, basketball players are going to get physical with one another on the court. But Sunday’s incident likely wouldn’t have received much attention if it wasn’t one of numerous examples of WNBA players making egregious hits against Clark since she entered the league.

During a Fever-Sky game earlier this month, for example, Reese’s teammate Chennedy Carter “appeared to shout something at Clark and then hip-checked the Fever rookie” while the latter waited for her teammate to inbound the ball, according to Outkick. While initially called a foul, league officials later upgraded Carter’s hit to a Flagrant 1, which the WNBA defines as “unnecessary and/or excessive contact committed by a player against an opponent,” according to ESPN.

The on-court hits have coincided with a wave of vitriolic attacks against Clark by leftist media — none of which have anything to do with her undeniable talent as an athlete and everything to do with the fact that she’s white and heterosexual.

But don’t take my word for it. MSNBC’s Joy Reid and The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill all but admitted during a recent segment on Reid’s “news” program that their disdain for Clark and her fans stems from their identity politics-based worldview. Hill also separately told the Los Angeles Times last month, “We would all be very naive if we didn’t say [Clark’s] race and her sexuality played a role in her popularity.”

Jealousy is a Bitter Poison to Swallow

For a league whose only significant news coverage resulted from one of its players getting arrested in Russia for illegal marijuana possession, you’d think the WNBA, its players, and left-wing media supporters would be happy that Clark’s success has drawn more people to the league. And yet the attitude coming from the WNBA and its (very few) sycophants is that Clark is a terrible person deserving of flagrant hits and whose growing success must be ignored.

Ask yourself: How many WNBA players or coaches have spoken out against the egregious fouls against Clark? Or better yet, how many of Clark’s teammates and coaches have spoken up in her defense?

The violent hits, in conjunction with the media’s relentless smears and snubbing of Clark from the 2024 U.S. women’s Olympic team, point to a sport and its supporters consumed with jealousy. They cannot stand to see Clark — who happens to be straight and white — single handedly pull their dumpster-fire league from the depths of irrelevancy.

A deep dive into WNBA attendance and viewership statistics confirms that newfound WNBA fans aren’t tuning in to watch your average players — they’re doing so to watch Clark. As The Blaze’s Andrew Chapados recently highlighted, the “[a]verage attendance of Clark’s games are double the league average,” with the latter’s presence “account[ing] for 33.5% of the WNBA’s total attendance in 2024.”

“The Clark bump also equates to more eyes on screens,” Chapados wrote. “Through the first weekend of June 2024, WNBA games that featured Clark had an average of 1.099 million viewers. Games without her averaged only 414,000 viewers.”

Those aren’t terrible numbers when considering the league is subsidized by the men’s National Basketball Association.

While the WNBA and its teams are still projected to lose $50 million this year, Clark’s presence has turned an irrelevant league into a slightly less irrelevant league. Instead of appreciating the new eyes and support she’s generated for women’s basketball, her fellow players would rather the league collapse than give her a modicum of credit.

If that’s not a perfect encapsulation of modern “feminism,” I don’t know what is.



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KEYWORDS: angelreese; basketball; caitlinclark; clark; libiots; race; wnba; woke; wokesters
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To: SeekAndFind
I think the WNBA should cease to exist and then let Caitlin play on the men's they-them team.
21 posted on 06/17/2024 10:56:24 PM PDT by lewislynn ( Trump aaccomplished more for Americans in a 4 year term than any President in your lifetime.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wow. Something to agree with leftists about. No WNBA.


22 posted on 06/17/2024 11:42:58 PM PDT by ifinnegan (MDemocrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: lewislynn

“I think the WNBA should cease to exist and then let Caitlin play on the men’s they-them team.”

She wouldn’t have a chance. She would be too small, too light, too slow, and would get knocked into the third row in the first two minutes.

The WNBA is financially supported by the NBA and that means the owners. They are there because they are getting closer to the men’s professional leagues in that they are getting bigger and more physical. But until they can get the size and strength women do not possess, they will be a mini version of the men’s league and will not transform into the street fight attitude that can impress the need for violence in the sport that sells tickets and jersies. But it might help if they took off the eye makeup during play and stopped trying to be the weaker sex doing it.

Over the last few years, there have been 13 women’s pro basketball leagues the failed...all financially. The NBA has been around since the late 1950’s. Last year the WNBA did $200M in sales while the NBA did $5B. And they finance the WNBA. It’s not a sport, it’s a business. And women’s leagues are doomed as they are an applied sale like buying rags with you house paint. You may or not need the rags, but you buy it anyway to wipe away mistakes.

wy69


23 posted on 06/18/2024 12:06:14 AM PDT by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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To: SeekAndFind

20 years from now,when most of her attackers will be pretty much forgotten, Caution Clark will be known as “Coach Clark”


24 posted on 06/18/2024 2:48:44 AM PDT by jmcenanly (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
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To: SeekAndFind

The WNBA black lesbian thugs join the the long list of black female politicians, academics and entertainers that make black women look bad. It’s been a bad year for the image of black women.


25 posted on 06/18/2024 2:55:26 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: SeekAndFind
I find this whole story disgusting and irrelevant to my life. But I follow it somehow hoping this fetid butch-ball league folds under its own woke weight.
26 posted on 06/18/2024 2:58:21 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Rembrandt

They upgraded that foul to ‘flagrant’... what consequences were there?


27 posted on 06/18/2024 3:13:14 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: SeekAndFind

She’s WHITE, STRAIGHT, CATHOLIC and GOOD!!! The DEMOCRATS DESPISE ALL THOSE!!!


28 posted on 06/18/2024 3:41:12 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SeekAndFind

You have lesbians and then you have democrat lesbians and then you have Marxist cannibal lesbians.

No scorn is greater or bigger than a Marxist cannibal lesbian with a huge racial chip on their shoulder. This is the very core, base of the Rat party. /spit


29 posted on 06/18/2024 4:12:12 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s hard for a massive black lesbian club which was irrelevant to have a talented white heterosexual infiltrate their ranks.

I totally get it. It’s like having brain dead leftist infiltrate everything.

The difference of course is she’s making things better for the leftist but the leftist destroy everything they infiltrate.


30 posted on 06/18/2024 4:12:56 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think a better set of terms might be, racists and heterophobia.


31 posted on 06/18/2024 5:25:26 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: Freest Republican

They want to get it to the point where they’ll force NBA Season ticket holders to purchase WNBA tickets as part of the package.


32 posted on 06/18/2024 5:28:42 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DeplorablePaul

No wonder black guys prefer white women, can’t say I blame them.


33 posted on 06/18/2024 5:29:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Angel Reese and Chennedy Carter are nothing but cheap ghetto thugs.


34 posted on 06/18/2024 5:46:05 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Her manager needs to advise the league president that if they do not call off the dogs that 30% bump in attendance and viewership will disappear as Clark will quit and go play in Europe. Money talks. If they drive her out of the league it will never recover from the backlash. It will NEVER get any normal ratings or attendance from the non-LGBTQ crowd.

She has the power.


35 posted on 06/18/2024 5:49:01 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: SeekAndFind

where is the fever coach in all this?

your best player is getting roughed up

you put an enforcer in there

to protect her


36 posted on 06/18/2024 5:50:25 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: SeekAndFind

Those terms are acceptable.


37 posted on 06/18/2024 5:52:48 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: SeekAndFind

Blacks are the most racist people in America. They hate everyone.


38 posted on 06/18/2024 6:21:12 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races you do not like.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The WNBA has been in the hole (no pun intended) forever. It has no audience. Clark may slightly accelerate that, but I fail to see how she will cause it to “burn down.” They can’t fall much lower.


39 posted on 06/18/2024 9:51:02 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." Jimi Hendrix)
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To: SeekAndFind

I am reminded that this is a game played for entertainment purposes and the potential for profit.

If it did not exist, fans would find something else to entertain them, and the players would find work elsewhere.

It is difficult to care more than is warranted for profit-seeking entertainment games.

It is difficult to look up to athletes at times like these.


40 posted on 06/18/2024 9:51:55 AM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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