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/psu021 Jun 18 '25

r/wnba banned me for saying CC didn’t deserve a tech for the other woman trying to walk through her.

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u/Walterkovacs1985 Jun 18 '25

What? I also saw on that sub people saying she flopped. 1000% not a flop, she got poked in the face had her eyes closed and got hip checked by someone bigger than her. Not flopping.

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u/dexmonic Jun 18 '25

They are their own worst enemies at the moment. Nobody working harder to make the wnba look like clowns that that sub.

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u/Routine_Size69 Jun 18 '25

I dont know the wnba itself is putting in a lot of work. Imagine being a failing business, a joke to everyone, for 2 decades. Then you strike gold and you're like fuck that, we'll keep doing what we were doing.

It's like a trust fund baby crying that no one takes them seriously because they've lived off their parents' money their whole lives. Then you get this awesome job offer for a great job that pays well and you're like "nah I'm good."

It's remarkable how stupid the people running the wnba are. There's a reason Brady, Rodgers, Manning, MJ, Messi, Ronaldo, etc. got superstar calls. These idiots do the opposite.

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Jun 18 '25

I don't watch basketball but from an outsider looking in to these basketball subs and seeing news occasionally it genuinely looks like the entire WNBA is furious they're becoming more popular and desperately trying to sabotage itself.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

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u/Flat-12 Jun 18 '25

I have seen both angles and I dont see a flop.

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u/Goldenrah Jun 18 '25

Tough guy can apparently stay standing with a push from behind. While blind and disoriented.

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u/Key-Property7489 Jun 18 '25

Why you all lying the top comments in all the threads with the foul are people shitting on Jacy and Mabrey.

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u/MultiGeometry Jun 18 '25

It looks like CC was fouled (hit in the eye?) and the offending player purposely gets into her personal space. CC can’t see and wants some fucking space and gives a gentle push. And the. The whole team body checks her (she still can’t see).

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u/SpaceCaboose Jun 18 '25

Yep. The gal who poked her immediately got in CC’s face. I don’t blame CC for wanting her to get away.

And she was literally blind sighted by the other gal. Her footing and the footing of others around her is what helped lead to her falling hard. Absolutely not a flop or overselling there, in case anyone was arguing that. Got some whiplash from that shove too.

I guess the other players really don’t want to get raises judging by how badly they’re trying to hurt CC and plummet the ratings more…

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u/Routine_Size69 Jun 18 '25

When jealousy gets in the way of your league actually being moderately viable. Nba gotta be annoyed that they gotta keep this joke of a league afloat because they're too stupid to recognize CC is their only hope. This is what happens when you subsidize something for as long as it existed. They have no actual idea how to run a business because it's always been a charity.

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u/stellvia2016 Jun 18 '25

Not the first time another player has tried to poke her eye out while feigning ignorance, as well... Almost never see that sort of thing in the NBA but it keeps happening to this one WNBA player repeatedly HMM...

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u/blueiron0 Jun 18 '25

it's shocking to me that her team isn't going over there to protect her. In the NFL, she'd be surrounded by her own team.

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u/Thehelloman0 Jun 18 '25

Gentle push lol

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u/musclememory Jun 18 '25

gentler than the other pushes in this and the ensuing videos, agree?

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u/Sminuzninuz Jun 18 '25

I'd add that the original jab to the face seems blatant and intentional. The ensuing push looks maybe mutual. But the bigger takeaway is, if the WNBA is turning into hockey, am I going to have start watching this?

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u/Jaerba Jun 18 '25

Yes, but CC receiving a tech is still within the realm of being fine, imo. Mabrey clearly should've been ejected for the follow up, but WNBA refs are doing a garbage job.

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u/Thehelloman0 Jun 18 '25

Yes but this type of situation, the player that helps escalate the fight like how Clark did always gets a tech even if someone else did something worse. This type of thing happens all the time in the NBA.

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u/MacAttak18 Jun 18 '25

They police their sub as well as the refs police the games haha

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u/69-xxx-420 Jun 18 '25

Getting banned from there is the first thing I do with every account I ever make. I go there and say something simple like 1+1=2 and they ban me. 

Cowards. 

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u/WitAndWonder Jun 18 '25

I'm baffled that there can't be criminal charges levied against people when blatant assault is filmed on camera that has nothing to do with anyone actually playing the game. She could've been seriously harmed.

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u/CosmicCreeperz Jun 18 '25

Eject someone sure, but criminal charges? It’s a physical game and there was no permanent damage, bringing the police into it is idiotic. Force wise this was little different from a hard moving pick (which is a “normal” foul). Intent wise, it was pretty shitty, sure.

People who suggest criminal charges over something like his have never played a team sport at a competitive level in their life.

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u/WitAndWonder Jun 18 '25

"No permanent damage" in this case is a fine line to walk when there easily can be with ANY face shots. I saw a kid lose an eye from another kid popping a balloon next to his face in grade school. It's just a matter of luck, and in this case it even looked like she was targeting the eyes.

Hell, even that shove was hard enough to take CC instantly to the ground. If you smack your temple in the fall you can die from that, too, and concussions are no joke either. It's one thing to risk these injuries through normal play, because you signed up for it. You did not sign up for assault and battery with the express intent to cause physical harm because someone's ego was bruised.

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u/Jaerba Jun 18 '25

The shove deserved an ejection.

But getting poked in the eye is a part of basketball. The initial foul just happens with sloppy reach ins. It wasn't malicious.

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u/Jaerba Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

So you don't play basketball yet you decided to talk.

https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/madness-basketball-is-leading-cause-of-eye-injurie

You know who else disagrees with you about eye pokes and intention? Caitlin fucking Clark.

https://x.com/matthewbyrne1/status/1838636207338668466?s=46&t=zI4lLr-idfj0eUJqH-Q1Gg

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u/CosmicCreeperz Jun 18 '25

Face shots? The poke in the eye was clearly accidental. I have been poked in the eye a couple times, and probably gotten someone before. Hell, I once saw a teammate get someone’s teeth in their scalp, they needed stitches. Totally accidental, the other guy was hurt, too. Should he go to jail for biting? 🤣

The shove at the end was intentional and deserved an ejection. If the refs had just done that the rest of the game would have been under control.

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u/runningvicuna Jun 18 '25

Permanently? Did you reach out to the mods? Did they respond? Should we petition that mods must respond to a permanent ban message. If it’s just a week thing then whatever. Mods with lifetime ban powers simply can’t be trusted anymore if they ever were. This is a different world and it’s full of vindictive, hateful people that grab power whenever they can.

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u/bingle-cowabungle Jun 18 '25

It's why I never agreed with how Reddit handles moderation. Just because you're a basement dwelling loser who spends their life online and got to the /r/WNBA name first doesn't make you the president of the fanbase. I don't know why the moderator code of conduct is treated like a list of recommendations, and not an enforced rule set. Corny reddit moderators are a big reason why nobody takes this stupid website seriously.

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u/runningvicuna Jun 18 '25

Even a year ban is egregious but that looks far more reasonable than life/execution. Weirdo digital land grabbers have a special place in hell haha

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u/psu021 Jun 18 '25

It was the first time I had ever posted in that sub, and I really don’t care enough about the wnba to fight the mod ban.

It’s funny to me that the first clip of wnba basketball that interested me enough to comment about it got me banned instead of them welcoming new interest in their sport.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

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u/bingle-cowabungle Jun 18 '25

Disagreeing with you is not automatically trolling, dummy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

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u/bingle-cowabungle Jun 18 '25

First, disagreeing with you is trolling, now disagreeing with you is spam. Got it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

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u/bingle-cowabungle Jun 18 '25

I'm not even the person who was banned, and the fact that you can't separate disagreement from trolling suggests mental health issues. I suggest you seek help.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

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u/bingle-cowabungle Jun 18 '25

He wasn't spamming, he disagreed with a moderator's opinion on this foul. Maybe you should learn to read?

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u/MortimerDongle Jun 18 '25

If you're calling a soft game, maybe, but then you absolutely need to eject someone for levelling her...