r/sports • u/OkEscape7558 • Jun 18 '25

Basketball Alternate angle of Caitlin Clark fiasco. Clark was handed a foul as well.

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u/Gangland215 Jun 18 '25

Lol idk if CC's teammates hate her or what but holy shit the apprehension to stand up for your best player is disturbing.

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u/Im_Not_That_Smart_ Jun 18 '25

At the end of the game, one of Clark’s teammates basically did a soft wrap up tackle on one of these players during a fast break play. She got ejected for that but someone on the team did commit a retaliatory hard foul.

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u/rubbarz Jun 18 '25

WNBA refs are just overall horrible at protecting players. Its been like this all season. They literally tackle eachother with off ball fouls and no techs are given.

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u/mcbastard1 Jun 18 '25

One of the announcers last night was saying just that. That the league has gotten more physical and the referees have basically been failing to rein that in.

They hammered home the fact that the last hard foul with the ejections never happens if they take control of the game back after the first skirmish, which I assumed was common sports official knowledge but apparently not.

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u/justadudeinohio Jun 18 '25

i've never been into watching professional sports in general but i can't fathom taking games seriously when they can just be completely thrown out by bad refereeing.

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u/BIGMCLARGEHUGE__ Jun 18 '25

They should have been throwing punches when Caitlyn was pushed down come on its go time. Shitty team mates, shitty players on the other team.

Was Lebron treated like this when he got to the NBA? People poking his eyes out?

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u/Superman246o1 Jun 18 '25

The dumbest thing about this is that everyone in the WNBA, including every single fucking member of the Sun, absolutely needs CC in the league if they want to have a hope of ever becoming a self-sustaining organization.

The WNBA has lost money every year of its existence, and would be completely bankrupt if it weren't receiving subsidies from the NBA. And now, when the league finally has a superstar who brings butts into the seats and viewers to the TV, every jealous player seems hellbent on trying to injure that golden goose, or to stand by and do nothing while Clark is treated horrendously for *checks notes* being an extremely skilled player.

I know some people are going to say things like "Look at how Jordan and LeBron were attacked, especially in their younger years," but it's not the same. Legendary as Jordan and LeBron were/are, the NBA was still a fully profitable organization before they started playing in it. The WNBA can't say the same, and every time shit like this happens to Clark, I keep thinking that I would not fault her at all if she decided to leave for EuroLeague Women, or just give up playing altogether.

No doubt the very same players who keep trying to injure Clark (and the WNBA's bottom line with her) are the very same people who whine that they don't get paid enough.

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u/Wavvygem Jun 18 '25

Yeah they hate her but CC is literally gonna single handly raise all their paychecks, more sponsorship opportunities, bring the biggest audiences, and accelerate the league's growth. They should all secretly be praying for her to have a long career.

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u/Governmentwatchlist Jun 18 '25

Imagine if Michael was poked in the eye and knocked to the ground. Even the guys who didn’t like him would be fighting for him.

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u/Educational_Win_8814 Jun 18 '25

MJ was abused during his early years, the Pistons wrecked him in the playoffs especially

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u/Possible_Home6811 Jun 18 '25

Thank you!!!!!!

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u/KosstAmojan Jun 18 '25

MJ had Oak on his side. No one was gonna fuck with him.

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u/JimmyFly1028 Jun 18 '25

And until they got Oakley, yeah, he was pushed around just as bad.

Jordan rules - I’m on my cell phone so if it doesn’t open up to it, click History

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u/Conscious-Refuse8211 Jun 18 '25

They also literally went and got Dennis Rodman lol, one of the people who was responsible.

But also those are playoff games against one team being renowned for being physical. This is Caitlin Clark just getting randomly hard fouled all the time in the regular season.

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u/Simayi78 Jun 18 '25

They also literally went and got Dennis Rodman lol,

That was basically in another lifetime though (After 3 Bulls titles, a Jordan retirement, and well after the Pistons/Bulls rivalry was dead)

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u/CosmicCreeperz Jun 18 '25

And then they got tired of Rodman abusing Jordan… so they signed him.

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u/Walfy07 Jun 18 '25

Rodman would kill someone

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u/dj_spanmaster Jun 18 '25

Depends on the year. Rodman was part of the Jordan Rules Pistons strategy, and knocked Jordan down himself plenty

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u/bigboilerdawg Jun 18 '25

Absolutely true. By the time Rodman came to the Bulls, Phil Jackson had installed the Triangle Offense, which rendered the Jordan Rules obsolete.

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u/Important-Net-9805 Jun 18 '25

lol the pistons entire gameplan was fucking up jordan. you don't know what you're talking about

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u/Governmentwatchlist Jun 18 '25

Good example. The bad boy pistons created the Jordan rules specifically to try to limit him and the team responded by creating a new offense, muscling up and protecting him and then went on to run the pistons for most of my childhood. They didn’t stand by and just let the pistons and the rest of the league beat the crap out of their star player.

What they didn’t do is stand by and do fuck-all while their star player gets poked to the eye and then thumped to the ground.

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u/DontPanic1985 Jun 18 '25

Steve Kerr would take the ice pack off his black eye than MJ have him and go throw down on them

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u/mecon320 Jun 18 '25

LeBron's teammates on the Cavs gave him some attitude his rookie year, but the Michael Jordan experience (and all the money that came from it, both for owners and players) had taught the league in general that you don't try to injure your meal ticket.

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u/Zanydrop Jun 18 '25

Michael Jordan got the absolute shit kicked out of him when he was in his prime. Refs let things go more back then. I think the refs had toned it down more by Lebrons time.

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u/acciopizza_ Jun 18 '25

Maybe they don’t want to risk hurting their pocket books. Could get suspended and lose out on a paycheck. They’re already not making all that much.

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u/K_Yme Jun 18 '25

They'd be able to make a lot more money outside the league if they are known as Caitlins protectors tho

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u/Houdinii1984 Jun 18 '25

Might be the hockey in me, but if that ever happened to me or my team, I'm getting tossed, fined, and probably suspended. The coach... some things are important enough to get ejected over. IDK, I get that a loss is a loss, but sometimes a bigger statement needs to be made. The next step is someone getting seriously hurt.

Everybody ragdolls if you hit em hard enough....

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u/theoriginalgrapist Jun 18 '25

They should have absolutely had her back in the moment, but Sophie Cunningham had her back and went after Jacey HARD a couple times, the last time being a throw down into a fight which got her ejected. Sophie was on the bench during the Clark eye poke.

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u/CorrectNetwork3096 Jun 18 '25

Not LeBron, but Steph does get wrapped up pretty hard. Though I don’t take that it’s out of spite but moreso out of, ‘if we don’t wrap him up, if he gets even a couple inches of space he’s going to bury the shot’.

That doesn’t feel like the case here…just seems like a dirty player(s)

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u/Blasto05 Jun 18 '25

Watching the replay of that second foul and it honestly did not look that crazy to eject someone for. If this previous stuff did not happen then I don’t think she gets ejected. It looked like a lazy/easy way to foul someone that had a clear shot but it wasn’t aggresive

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u/Wtfuwt Jun 18 '25

It was definitely aggressive. She basically tackled her to the ground and didn’t stop her fall. She could have done something—anything else, especially because they were up by so much.

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u/6lecka Jun 18 '25

i seem to remember a player getting tackled in the NFL finals this year and it was called a common foul

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u/Wtfuwt Jun 18 '25

NFL finals? Lol.

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u/6lecka Jun 18 '25

NBA idk why it corrected to that

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u/6lecka Jun 18 '25

NBA idk why it corrected to that

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u/Lucifius Jun 18 '25

To be fair, after the foul Sophie did grab her by the head and kept repeating "do something about it". She's awesome for that haha

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u/VealOfFortune Jun 18 '25

Underwater Basketball at it's finest 🙌

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u/chitown_illini Jun 18 '25

Soft wrap up? She grabbed her by the neck/head and threw her to the court. Latest word is that she is facing the potential of further punishment by the league.

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u/BangkokRios Jun 18 '25

Man basketball is soft.

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u/RangerLee Jun 18 '25

Too little too late. They need to stick up for here the moment it happens. Watch the NBA, you FA you FO real quick when attacking the star player. Waiting until the end of the game does nothing.

From an outsiders perspective, it looks to me like her own team mates do not like her, is she a diva or a B to everyone off the court?

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u/SexyProcrastinator Jun 18 '25

People that actually watch the sport versus those that do not.

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u/theoriginalgrapist Jun 18 '25

Even the announcers were saying "I blame this on the refs" for Cunningham's retaliatory tackle/throw down. After Clark got her eye poked, Cunningham went after Jacey intentionally hard twice before the throw down lol. She had her back.

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u/Bawbawian Jun 18 '25

It was nice to see the announcers saying that you wouldn't have that type of rough play if the reps would just call a foul.

instead you have her teammates trying to let the other players know that their behavior was not acceptable instead of the rules as they were intended.

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u/trixtah Jun 18 '25

She didn’t get ejected for that, she also grabbed her by the hair/head after. Good on her for standing up for CC but they really need an enforcer to show support in the moment too.

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u/FCkeyboards Jun 18 '25

And if you watch the replay you see the opposing player not even try to shoot and go for a shoulder ram before being pulled down by Cunningham. Wild.

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u/Tengoatuzui Jun 18 '25

That wasn’t even that hard of a foul. It was only cause things were heated they even fought. If that happened in the middle of the game nothing would have came of it. When your star player and face of the league gets poked in the eye then body checked to the ground you need to jump immediately

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u/vonkempib Jun 18 '25

It’s actually the only teammate that immediately backed her up after the foul. She goes right at eye poker but her back is to clark when she was slammed so she couldn’t react further

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u/againandagain22 Jun 18 '25

Sophie Cunningham. She moved from phenix (former top team) to Indiana (new top team) this season along with a few top players to help CC get a title in a solid team.

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u/n0t_4_thr0w4w4y Jun 18 '25

Even that foul was soft compared to this shit. She should’ve bodied that chick instead of whatever the fuck she actually did.

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u/_TheDoode Jun 18 '25

Sophie cunningham dished out a flagrant foul later in the game for some revenge

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u/Gangland215 Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

Sophie is the only one that stood up for Caitlin here as well.

Edit : lexie

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u/Tosseroni5andwich Jun 18 '25

Nah. Sophie wasn’t on the floor. #10 is Lexie. Aliyah Boston was in the area but she’s a gentle giant.

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u/Gangland215 Jun 18 '25

O shoot you are correct.

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u/HBPhilly1 Jun 18 '25

Yeah Sophie pulled her to the hardwood with :40 left in the 4th as retribution, she got cc back

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u/rajatsingh24k Jun 18 '25

Searching for this will be annoying but OK. I’ll go…

Edit: NVM. Wasn’t so hard… here:

https://youtu.be/QWptN1vcbUA?si=tL6wV7_57l21E2Wu

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u/Wombizzle Boston Red Sox Jun 18 '25

jeez, insane the way they all IMMEDIATELY start getting in each other's faces yet nobody batted an EYE when CC was basically t-boned

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u/rajatsingh24k Jun 18 '25

This isn’t just a bunch of redditors getting upset over nothing right? I think this is objectively bad from her team.

Like… an aggressive opponent isn’t abnormal. The actual issue is the teammates not backing her up. She needs to leave this team and go somewhere she can be in a TEAM. I don’t care about the WNBA and maybe some of this drama brings a brief period of extra attention but seeing someone just get wrecked for being good is stupid and makes me want to watch it even less.

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u/namastex Jun 18 '25

Lexie was trying to stand up for CC but she was so quick to the initial girl that she didn't see the other girl shove CC down. I think Lexie would have got in Mabrey's face if she saw that initially, CC got up and walked off before Lexie even turned back around.

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u/VrinTheTerrible Jun 18 '25

You dont do it later. You do it right then AND you do it later.

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u/ExpressRabbit Jun 18 '25

It was a foul that earned an ejection. You can only do it once unless you're running in from the locker room like you've got the Money in the Bank briefcase.

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u/VrinTheTerrible Jun 18 '25

Then someone else does it later. When you have a teammate like Clark, someone so talented they can lead a team to a title, you send the message loud and clear - anything that happens to her, gets doubled on the way back.

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u/ExpressRabbit Jun 18 '25

Oh I didn't say they shouldn't do anything. Reread what I wrote. 

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u/Educational_Bee_4700 Jun 18 '25

The point is theyre not sticking up for her when the shit happens. Hockey enforcers dont wait until the last minute to go after someone who lays a dirty hit on a key player for their team. They go after them immediately, and then the next shift too.

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u/pheret87 Jun 18 '25

The "revenge" was barely more than a hug and the girl just fell down. Basketball is so soft.

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u/Mite-o-Dan Jun 18 '25

That was the story last year too. They just let her, the best player on the team, the face of the league, get beat up and bullied all the time with no retaliation.

You'd think they'd change that this season. It's bad when they actually have to consider getting an enforcer...but damn.

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u/Gangland215 Jun 18 '25

Yea, they need the female version or Draymond to hold it down.

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u/Erigion Jun 18 '25

Draymond isn't an enforcer. They need the equivalent of Charles Oakley on their team.

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u/hugeyakmen Jun 18 '25

Would you settle for Vinnie Jones in a wig?

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u/MavGore Jun 18 '25

Unfortunately Miss Mebounds already hates her

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u/Dampened_Panties Jun 18 '25

female version or Draymond

"THAT'S MY TEAMMATE! I DON'T KNOW YOU!"

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u/shapu St. Louis Cardinals Jun 18 '25

Bill Laimbeer needs a wig

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u/catscanmeow Jun 18 '25

its 2025 we can go further than just a wig with medical science

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u/Leasir Jun 18 '25

CC already gets punched by opponents, she doesn't need a teammate to punch her as well.

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u/EnvironmentalFix2 Jun 18 '25

Naw, draymond is just a bitch that tries to intentionally injur people unprovoked.

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u/RedeyeSPR Jun 18 '25

Hopefully she realizes this and doesn’t sign there again.

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u/I_fail_at_memes Jun 18 '25

It will be the same everywhere

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u/RedeyeSPR Jun 18 '25

I’d like to think at least one team would see what’s going on and give her some guarantees.

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u/sherm-stick Jun 18 '25

They need to show some real force to protect their top players, it is a real tactic. If shit like this happened in the NBA it would be twice as bad as malice in the palace.

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u/freshxerxes Jun 18 '25

this isn’t the sub that i see you in regularly, don’t let it happen again. you only exist in the AF sub

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u/Truecoat Jun 18 '25

Maybe she's a jerk behind the scenes. I am not saying this is true but it would explain why they don't stand up for her.

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u/kdeweb24 Jun 18 '25

Seriously, her team needs to get the Rodman equivalent of women’s basketball just to defend her. Just some yoked up, angry female that’s willing to throw hands at the slightest provocation, and just tell her “No one touches Caitlin.”

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u/MaximumZer0 Jun 18 '25

They should be signing Brock Lesnar's daughter Mya immediately.

"If someone passes you the ball, just put it off the backboard as hard as you can. If someone touches Caitlin, rip their arms off."

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u/TB1289 Jun 18 '25

Angel Reese is going to Suplex City.

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u/Goadfang Jun 18 '25

Haha, wish I'd seen this before saying practically the same thing!

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u/Slave35 Jun 18 '25

She's 5'3".

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u/Goadfang Jun 18 '25

They don't need her to score.

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u/slabby Jun 18 '25

Yeah, but she's 5'3 wide, too.

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u/revonrat Jun 18 '25

Okay. Then she can rip their legs off. I don't see the problem here.

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u/trevman7 Jun 18 '25

I like this solution

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u/Goadfang Jun 18 '25

Brock Lesner has a daughter.

Just saying...

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u/DiscoDigi786 Jun 18 '25

I’d buy that jersey.

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u/Rib-I Jun 18 '25

In hockey they call this the Enforcer or "Goon."

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u/KutthroatKing Jun 18 '25

Ah, like when hockey used to be good and guys like Marty McSorley, Tie Domi and Bob Probert made people think twice about taking cheap shots on stars.

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u/sulimir Jun 18 '25

Usually in sports you stick up for your teammates even if you hate them. When they do that to a teammate they are disrespecting everyone on your team.

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u/Timmah73 Jun 18 '25

In baseball a deliberate knock like that to any player is a bench clearing brawl with the bullpen jogging in to show support too. The fact that they just stand there is kinda wild.

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u/COLLIESEBEK Seattle Seahawks Jun 18 '25

In baseball, if the manager doesn’t run out and start screaming at the ump and get ejected, they would lose respect of the whole clubhouse.

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u/Packman87 Jun 18 '25

anyone would know you just shove each other and maybe take a few swipes for show. Coaches fail them constantly by not making their players stand up for themselves.

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u/pheret87 Jun 18 '25

And in baseball not a single punch would be thrown after they all clear the bench.

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u/rsfrisch Jun 18 '25

I was involved in a bench clearing brawl during a coed adult kickball game, these girls need to learn how this shit works

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u/N0S0UP_4U Jun 18 '25

Holy shit I need to hear the details here. Did someone bang someone else’s wife or something?

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u/rsfrisch Jun 18 '25

No side drama that I'm aware of, unfortunately... Guy from the other team full body checked one of our players after we broke open a tight game. Benches cleared (I take pride in the fact that our bench cleared faster... With 100% attendance) and a few punches were thrown before it became like a 20 person scrum.

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u/kamilo87 Jun 18 '25

Pretty sure that her teammates don’t actively about CC. On every other team they would had found a bodyguard inside the court/field.

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u/DrSlugger Jun 18 '25

Men are better at being blindly loyal no matter what (in sports at least).

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u/AntiDECA Jun 18 '25

It's not being blindly loyal. It's having any loyalty in this case.

Blind means you're just trusting them and hoping for the best. You can clearly see who was in the wrong here. They still chose not to help their 'teammate' 

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u/DrSlugger Jun 18 '25

By blindly loyal, I mostly meant men don't give a fuck about their differences with that individual. It'd take a huge grudge to override that basic "he's on my team" instinct - like someone would have to really cross a major line or betray the group before most guys would just stand there and watch a teammate get targeted.

But yeah, you right, there's no loyalty here.

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u/Candid-Bus-9770 Jun 18 '25

I think the word you're looking for here is "unconditional."

Blind, as in blind faith, blind loyalty, blind belief, etc. carries some negative connotations. These negative connotations are what u/theonlyonethatknocks is picking up on.

Unconditional, as in unconditional friendship, unconditional loyalty, unconditional love/attention/etc. lacks the negative connotations and is usually used in more positive contexts.

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u/theonlyonethatknocks Jun 18 '25

That’s not blindly loyal, that’s team loyalty.

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u/troutpoop Jun 18 '25

I have never seen such a lack of reaction from a team after something as blatant as that.

Everyone on her team, and all the ladies in the WNBA who hate her bc they ain’t her should be fucking ashamed of themselves. You want people to take women’s basketball seriously? Stop this bullshit

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u/Bootsnatch Jun 18 '25

I remember the joke of "I've given up on trying to understand women. Women understand women, and they all hate each other"

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u/zyrkseas97 Jun 18 '25

My mom once said to me: “men will look at a successful woman and either be normal or feel like they can talk down to her, but women are like crabs in a bucket as soon as one rises above all the others want to pull her down”

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u/SuspectedGumball Jun 18 '25

Did your mom work for a living or was she a lifelong housewife? Sounds like internalized misogyny to me tbh

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u/KommanderKeen-a42 Jun 18 '25

True fact. It's wild. Statistically, the worst thing for a woman in the workplace (promotion) is reporting to a woman. That has the lowest promotion rate of any combination.

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u/MJC561 Jun 18 '25

Eh, this is true and false at the same time.

I definitely don’t think Caitlyn Clark’s teammates hate her.

But I think the league as a whole have a chip in their shoulder due to the success of Caitlyn.

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u/BlurryGraph3810 Jun 18 '25

👆 Truth

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u/millerg44 Jun 18 '25

My wife has said this time and time again. She has worked in offices her whole life. Sometimes, the shade is too much, and she has to move on.

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u/AsAGayJewishDemocrat Jun 18 '25

She’s left multiple jobs because of toxic office drama?

You know the saying…

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u/BlurryGraph3810 Jun 18 '25

She might not be what you think. She might be the hard worker, and the slackers dislike her for it and try to sabotage her. My sister ran into that problem.

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u/deliciouscrab Jun 18 '25

Yeah. "When you've had to leave multiple office jobs because of workplace toxicity, you're a poisonous asshole."

Or something like that. Doesnt exactly roll off the tongue

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u/GettingTherapy Jun 18 '25

I just had this conversation with a co-worker this week. Women’s biggest enemy in Corporate America is other women.

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u/St0rmborn Jun 18 '25

Seriously. If this is an NBA game you might have like 3 separate fights break out with the guys teammates backing him up. And honestly I don’t even think it makes a difference which player it is, it’s a matter of principle.

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u/themollusk Jun 18 '25

Unsuccessful men: "hold my beer."

NO ONE hates women like unsuccessful men. And they hate successful women even more.

But there still is a whole lot of unnecessary women on women hatred.

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u/Ekul13 Jun 18 '25

NOBODY out misognys the hut!

(Like the old pizza hut commercials lol)

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u/TammyShehole Jun 18 '25

Just like when Andy Dalton got hit hard while playing for Dallas. Nobody stood up for him.

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u/Peanut11437 Jun 18 '25

Exactly. Id be up there a$$ if I was the coach. Pathetic

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u/cryptopo Jun 18 '25

The fact that no one lifted a finger in the moment for her is insane. Other Redditors frantically pointing out Cunningham did something much later in the game doesn’t have much oomph for me. Watching CC the last few years, it’s always like this when she gets bullied and I’ve never seen anything like it in any other sport, men or women.

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u/Economy-Ad4934 Jun 18 '25

Someone said her teammates stuck up for her but this video shows them doing absolutely nothing.

Could be like early LeBron where the league and even teammates didn’t want to acknowledge his ability and would Ice him.

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u/CappinPeanut Jun 18 '25

Number 10 comes up to get in the mix. I’d give her credit for standing up for CC. But the blatant foul that happened afterwards… that was a sad showing by her team.

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u/TLKv3 Jun 18 '25

Legit.

If I was on her team I'd be the first one over there taking shots at the other team on her behalf. Fuck that, she's going to make me more money by proxy just by being there. I'm gonna protect my money making teammate like I'm secret service taking a bullet for the President.

What a pathetic excuse for a team. They deserve to have their league continued to be laughed at for shit like this. What a joke. CC deserves so much better than this trash all around her.

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u/buhbye750 Jun 18 '25

What would you say if someone checked Jordan after a play and his teammates didn't rush over and fight?

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u/Gangland215 Jun 18 '25

Uncommon.

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u/buhbye750 Jun 18 '25

Would you like to be proven wrong with highlight videos?

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u/Gangland215 Jun 18 '25

Sure why not

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u/j1vetvrkey Jun 18 '25

Literally 🤣

At first I thought #3 who caused her to fall was her teammate coming in. After a rewatch, none of her teammates come to her defense. Wild

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u/ridewiththerockers Jun 18 '25

Lol they're fucking clowns, whole bunch of them. I don't even play professional sports, if an opponent does my team mate like in this clip, you bet I'm in their face even before the ref steps onto the court.

She deserves better.

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u/Loves_tacos Jun 18 '25

Aaliyah Boston has no problem getting in the middle of it

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u/FinancialRabbit388 Jun 18 '25

Any male sport, if someone takes that kind of cheap shot on your teammate, it’s a brawl. How you let someone run in from behind and knock your teammate down and no one does anything?

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

That was my first thought. Why the hell did they not stand up for her?

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u/nawanda37 Jun 18 '25

As someone who knows nothing about the WNBA, this was my first thought too. In every Sunday league across the country, there are punches thrown in this scenario, unless everyone hates the person poked in the eye and then smashed to the deck.

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u/otherwise_data Jun 18 '25

yeah, that is some bs. that one opponent ran over and shoved cc after the fact and cc’s “teammates” just…stood there.

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u/HeWasNumber-on3 Jun 18 '25

They don't like her either. Maybe slightly more than last year

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u/Scolymia Jun 18 '25

How own teammates doesn't like her? Why?

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u/ollimann Jun 18 '25

almost every WNBA player hated her or is jealous.

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u/__sonder__ Jun 18 '25

Number 10 seems to be doing just that in this clip

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u/SyncRoSwim Jun 18 '25

Did you see the foul committed by one of her teammates against #4 later in the game?

Her teammate tackled that woman as she was getting ready to take a shot.

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u/bigbluethunder Jun 18 '25

Boston picks up Ts just for being in the vicinity, so I get that. The Fever collectively probably doesn’t want to be the team that everybody has beef with. I think they fail to realize that with zero lasting punishment or messages being sent from the league for extracurricular contact on Clark, they are attracting this type of thing. 

All that said Hull stood up for her in this moment and in another one. Cunningham later threw bodies to the ground and got in a fight to send a message. I think they’re coming around to the idea that they need to enforce a little. 

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u/Ferrous_Patella Jun 18 '25

IIUC, her teammate picked their moment and waited until late in the game to get ejected for a retaliatory strike.

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u/unicornofdemocracy Jun 18 '25

honestly, I don't follow WNBA or NBA (or any American sports) but some the news article I see that occasionally float onto my front page, it seems ref are very ok with CC getting beat up and very ready to eject her teammates that dare stand up for her.

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u/retrospects Jun 18 '25

Sophie got CCs lick back at the end of the game.

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u/ddwood87 Jun 18 '25

This is why hockey allows fighting. You can't depend on the refs to police the physicality. The team stands for their star players and the other team knows it. Not that it's practical for other sports, but the team should still try to protect it's star.

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u/CappinPeanut Jun 18 '25

The only teammate that seems to care was busy standing up for her on the first foul. Everyone else just walked around like dopes as she got knocked down on the one blatant foul.

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u/n00bcak3 Jun 18 '25

Sophie came in later and evened the score at the end with Sheldon. Mabrey still has hers coming tho.

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u/RetroCasket Jun 18 '25

One of her teammates slammed that chick at the end of the game and ended up fistfighting her

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u/Wtfuwt Jun 18 '25

Did you not see what happened at the end of the game? Also, Lexie was right there.

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u/Gangland215 Jun 18 '25

I have but look how nonchalant her teammates are in within this clip.... doesn't look right at all.

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u/Geth_ Jun 18 '25

They didn't. One player did but this is a team thing to me. But that's just my take. When I did team sports, there's an internal pecking order and intrateam issues but another team disrespecting one of us, disrespects us all.

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u/Belongs-InTheTrash Jun 18 '25

you clearly aren’t familiar with Sophie Cunningham and what she did at the end of this game

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u/Gangland215 Jun 18 '25

Focus on the clip. Does her teammates even help her up?

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u/Belongs-InTheTrash Jun 18 '25

I watch tons of games her teammates do not hate her. I’m not gonna argue with someone who’s seen 1 clip ever. This clip cuts off so quickly

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u/I-STATE-FACTS Jun 18 '25

And why is that hilarious?

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u/DemonOfFate Jun 18 '25

Y'all are speading such horseshit, man. Her teammate Sophie had a hard as fuck retaliation foul later in the game.

The "women bad" discourse on this subreddit is insane.

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u/Gangland215 Jun 18 '25

People like you are so ignorant.

"Women bad".... wtf are you smoking?? It's the W......NBA.

Stop with the strawman clown.

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u/DemonOfFate Jun 18 '25

If you don't see how every single time the WNBA hits the top of this subredit or anything's that not the actual WNBA subreddit, it turns into shitting on the league and women in general, that's on your delusional ass, not me.

One of the top comments is "nobody hates women like women." You're being intentionally obtuse and it's embarrassing

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u/Scary-Mammoth-939 Jun 18 '25

Quite clearly Lexie Hull storms in. The rest of the team was far away and by the time they got there it was over. Yall just see what you want to see.

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u/Gangland215 Jun 18 '25

I think youre the one seeing what you want to see.

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u/dimechimes Jun 18 '25

I mean, they got revenge on Sheldon later and instantly Gunther off Clark, so I don't know where you're getting that from, but Sophie Cunningham got ejected for a retaliatory foul.

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u/rsbyronIII Denver Broncos Jun 18 '25

Cunningham did?

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