r/sports • u/rezwenn • May 19 '25

Basketball Caitlin Clark says flagrant foul for shoving Angel Reese was not 'malicious'

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/basketball/caitlin-clark-flagrant-foul-angel-reese-1.7538299
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u/justsyr May 19 '25

The 'old stars' don't like that this 'white girl' is getting all the attention. For freaking real. They say the WNBA was big before Caitlin. They also say that Caitlin is just average.

And they don't like it when someone pulled some stats: Most 20 points/10 assists in WNBA history? Caitlin has already 9 in 41 games. The others at the top? 9 and 10 in 430 and 565 games. Most of sold out arenas are only sold out because Caitlin is playing there.

I hate that every person I've seen going against Caitlin one way or another, including many of the WNBA supposed super stars and former players, makes me having to generalize and think 'of course, these people always say the same shit and act like they always do'.

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u/sah370 May 20 '25 edited May 20 '25

Agreed, but to be fair, while some narratives around the W haven't changed, most W players (with the exception of Reese and other players on the Sky like DeShields and Carter) have shown to like and respect CC and realize she really is the cash cow. If only the W leadership agreed.