You learn the difference between a cheap shot and playing hard/aggressive by jr. high.

Not controlling your emotions and retaliating is immature.

Trying to defend immaturity makes one a fool.

Fortunately, neither player got hurt.

Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever drew a sellout crowd of 20,333 fans for tonight’s game against the Washington Mystics — the WNBA’s most attended game in 17 years.

These teams have a combined record of 3-20 & it’s the first-ever $1 million-plus gate for the Mystics.

Crazy! pic.twitter.com/SEf12R06Sh

— Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano) June 8, 2024

Caitlin Clark has been left off the Olympic women’s basketball roster. Women’s basketball hates its fans and doesn’t want to grow their game. That’s the only conclusion you can draw from their treatment of Clark. She would quadruple their viewership by herself. No brainer.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 8, 2024

It's called petty jealousy. It's as old as time. It's not going away any time soon.

If CC were black and/or a lesbian, she'd be on the team. Fact.

That is perhaps a bit naive. If you the trace drama surrounding Clark back far enough, there was an incident in the 2023 final four where Dawn Staley accused Iowa's coach of making a racial comments. I believe her comment to the media was along the lines of "I told my girls to be ready, because this is going to be a bar fight". Staley took those comments as racially insensitive which fueled somewhat of a "black vs white" narrative around that game on social media. Clark played one of her best games, I believe a 40 pt triple double, and Iowa upset South Carolina, ending something like a 60 game win streak.

Iowa goes on to play LSU in the 2023 championship game and Reece from LSU makes comments that further fuel a black vs white narrative.

Fast forward to the 2024 season and Clark's popularity skyrockets. As it grows, so grows widespread social media debate about whether she receives favoritism because she's white.

Whether or not it factored into the decision to keep her off the Olympic team, I don't know or really care. But you'll never convince me that there aren't strong prejudices and biases against her coming from the black community, that has bled onto the WNBA courts, through absolutely no fault of her own.

I don't understand the animosity towards Clark. She doesn't seem to have done anything to upset anybody other than be good at Women's Basketball. Maybe it's racial, who knows

(It's almost certainly racial)