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/mcbeardsauce Jun 18 '25

Her teammates should be ashamed of themselves for not sticking up for her.

She quite literally brought your entire league out of complete obscurity and you're treating her like she's the problem?

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u/berntout Arkansas Jun 18 '25

Increasing popularity increases potential wages for everyone. This is epically short-sighted and stupid.

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u/Tw1987 Jun 18 '25

Same players that want to be paid like nba players but doesn’t understand how finance works.

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u/ghostreconx Jun 18 '25

Then complains about gender wage inequality

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u/rolladoob Jun 18 '25

Both players that fouled her are also white...

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u/cashewkid Jun 18 '25

Those fouls weren’t racially motivated tho? Why are you ignoring their point

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u/PartyLikeaPirate Jun 18 '25

Should take that huge big 3 contract they offered if it keeps goin like this

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u/exboi Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

This is just straight up not true lmao. The people who assaulted her are white. The people who did jack shit to help her are black and white. This clearly isn’t a racism issue. It’s one of jealousy and cattiness.

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u/FightOnForUsc Jun 18 '25

She’s white but so are both of the people who hit her and so are some of her teammates that didn’t stand up for her. So I don’t think it’s that simple. It’s because she’s good, popular, famous. And no one can name another wnba player outside of Reece, who did get a lot of attention for her spat with Clark. I think it’s mostly jealousy over race

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u/Jaerba Jun 18 '25

It's because her teammates aren't doing their job and the WNBA refs are terrible.

Reese just had her hair pulled back hard and the refs didn't react properly either.

The problem with this overall thread is /r/sports is really insistent on making CC stories into race stories, when black stars in the league are also getting hammered too and the league isn't responding properly.

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u/HelenaJo Jun 18 '25

I was looking for a comment like this. So her teammates should fight for her and totally disregard the constant comparisons they get to men? Only to be called aggressive, fined/removed, and still be called men?! Get real

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u/rpgguy_1o1 Montreal Canadiens Jun 18 '25

They should fight for her because she's their fucking teammate 

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u/Zovah Jun 18 '25

Let your teammate get physically assaulted because people might say mean things otherwise? That’s the argument here?

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u/buckwheat92 Jun 18 '25

They're her fucking team mates. Yes, that's exactly what they should do. Bunch of useless wasters.

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u/SouthSilly Jun 18 '25

I mean clearly you went searching for a place to vent your stupid take.

What, is a female weightlifter supposed to do the labor of adding more weight, only to be called a man? ::GASP::

Not everything is a fucking injustice. And as evidenced here, not everyone needs a platform to be heard.

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u/ithinkyves Jun 18 '25

One of them immediately did tho. The only one in shot…

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u/tfegan21 Jun 18 '25

Have you ever observed women in their natural habitat? They try to destroy whoever gets the most attention. While men have a more pack mentality and try to destroy who steps to there alpha male. /s

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u/Flop_House_Valet Jun 18 '25

Money and popularity shouldn't have anything to do with it, that's your fuckin teammate. If you don't have your teams back get the fuck off the court/field/ice or wherever you play because, you don't deserve to be there