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Caitlin Clark’s Old Comments Are Trending After WNBA Controversy
Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark has addressed this WNBA controversy twice.
Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark has finished her WNBA rookie season. Selected No. 1 overall by Indiana in the 2024 WNBA draft, Clark entered the league with unprecedented hype after breaking the NCAA’s all-time scoring record.
Meeting and exceeding this hype in many ways, Clark broke numerous records while leading the Fever to their first playoff appearance since 2016.
While Clark and her rookie class helped drive historic growth for the WNBA, some of this came with increased negative attention. Many players addressed this throughout the season, including Connecticut Sun forward Alyssa Thomas after her team’s opening round victory over Indiana.
When asked about these comments during her exit interview, Clark said nobody in the WNBA should experience hate or racism of any kind.
“Nobody in our league should be facing any sort of racism, hurtful, disrespectful, hateful comments and threats,” Clark said. “Those aren’t fans. Those are trolls.”
This is not the first time Clark has spoken on this topic, and her old comments have been trending amid the WNBA’s publicity battle.
Via James Boyd of The Athletic: “I got time today, so let’s revisit: Caitlin Clark said this in June — four months ago. So, anyone labeling these racists, misogynists, sexists, etc. as specifically *CC* fans are being disingenuous. They aren’t her fans. They never were. She’s just a means to an end.”
This post, which now has over 420,000 views on X, was the first in a thread from Boyd that breaks down this dynamic.
As Boyd emphasized, Clark has addressed and denounced any hateful comments directed at WNBA players, calling the situation “disappointing.” Doing so again on Friday, Clark said there is no place for that anywhere.
Cheryl Miller’s Refreshing Caitlin Clark Support Resurfaces After WNBA Rookie Season
Women’s basketball legend Cheryl Miller sent a heartwarming message to Caitlin Clark during a dark period of her rookie season that has since resurfaced on social media.
Women’s basketball legend Cheryl Miller is one of the most respected figures in the entire sport.
This could be seen while she served as head coach of Team WNBA at the 2024 WNBA All-Star Game, when the squad defeated Cheryl Reeve’s Team USA roster by a score of 117-109.
In fact, Miller has always supported the WNBA’s two (now former) rookie sensations. This was proven by a wholesome story Miller shared about Clark during the WNBA’s All-Star Weekend, which she initially revealed on a July episode of the “Breakthrough Chronicles” podcast with Kevin Ray that has since resurfaced on social media.
“And I saw that first win can be so shedding of some of that weight, some of that volume, and I gave her the biggest hug that I could,” Miller said of Clark. “And when she saw me she was like ‘Oh man, finally somebody who’s on my side.’
“She was getting hit with everything left and right,” Miller continued. “And I just said, I hugged her and said, ‘I’m so proud of you. Savor this, use this as a formula, but keep being you. No matter what, keep being you.'”
Miller later added, “I can’t imagine, Kevin Ray, what these kids are dealing with, with the social media and the attention. I don’t know if I could have been able to handle it. I was too much of a temperamental human being to handle this type of adversity.”
While everybody could use a supportive figure like Miller in their life, perhaps none more so than Caitlin Clark.
