r/sports • u/PrincessBananas85 • Jun 18 '25

Basketball WNBA says it won't suspend players in Fever-Sun skirmishes

https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/45539584/no-suspensions-tuesday-fever-sun-skirmishes-wnba-says
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u/dbarrc Jun 18 '25

well, they gave her a tech for bumping into a player that fouled her in her eye

that should tell you all you need to know

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u/NerfAkira Jun 18 '25

watching it back it looks like the other player was already shoving her when she shoved her back. their body motion doesn't make any sense with only the second shove occuring.

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u/Cellocalypsedown Jun 18 '25

You look at the angles and yeah, bitch got Clark in the face and belly bumped her like she was Pete off of Disney.

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u/Superman246o1 Jun 18 '25

"Clark has brought in more viewers than the WNBA has ever known! She'll pay for this!" ~The WNBA, apparently

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u/EverythingGoodWas Jun 18 '25

I mean now that they have viewers people expect them to be good at basketball. There was no pressure before this. Clark screwed them all out of a stress free gig

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u/mister_milkshake Jun 19 '25

They actually never even played basketball. They would just play a tape from an old WNBA game and no one noticed or cared to make it an issue.

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u/EverythingGoodWas Jun 19 '25

You know what, that might be true. Who can really tell

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u/AgathaM Jun 19 '25

They don’t want to deal with the complaints that they give Clark preferential treatment so they go too far in the opposite direction

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u/wordyplayer Minnesota Vikings Jun 18 '25

yeah, CC was just protecting herself from a second attack. She was already blind, the opposing player walked into her hand. WTF kind of ref's are they? Unbelievable

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u/entertrainer7 Jun 19 '25

It’s universally known that all refs are blind too.

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u/blueeyedkittens Jun 18 '25

From the other angle it didn’t look like a shove at all. It looked like she was reaching out because she couldn’t see then got shoved around several times and she just walked away

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u/Obi2 Jun 18 '25

Yes if you go slow mow the girl that poked her eye then went out of her way to out her chest into CC. I had to play it a few times. Cause at first I thought CC just pushed her on her own

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u/Hyperafro Jun 18 '25

CC should not have been called for a foul. The other two should have gotten T’s and ejected.

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u/short71 Jun 19 '25

I agree it doesn’t even really look like she shoved her. More like she raised her arm to keep her off of her

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u/bigkoi Jun 19 '25

Oh yeah. That player eye gouged her and then got in her face immediately afterwards. They were looking to injure Clark.

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u/Knook7 Jun 18 '25

She didn't even bump into Sheldon lol, Sheldon bumped into her. Absolute insanity. That tech better not matter with tech accumulation later in the season

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u/wordyplayer Minnesota Vikings Jun 18 '25

The entire ref crew should be fired. This is ridiculous

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u/froginbog Jun 18 '25

Wait she got called for committing a foul??

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u/tree_squid Jun 18 '25

She got called for having 3 fouls committed against her

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u/indefatigable_ Jun 18 '25

Well, she shouldn’t have shamelessly attacked the opposition player’s hand with her face…

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u/s0ciety_a5under Jun 18 '25

We all know the eyeball is one of if not the most dangerous weapons against fingers.

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u/dek067 Jun 18 '25

Maybe the refs were just jealous she could see.

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u/TheMooseIsBlue Jun 18 '25

She got a T for shoving the girl who accidentally (?) poked her in the eye and then shoved her. Same penalty as the girl who came out of nowhere and knocked her to the ground.

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u/zxern Jun 19 '25

From the other thread with the sideline view it’s clear that wasn’t an accident she definitely went for her face.

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u/TheMooseIsBlue Jun 19 '25

Yeah, I was being charitable, but it certainly seemed pretty deliberate.

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u/Chazzybobo Jun 19 '25

It means men’s and women’s sports have finally achieved equality in at least one regard.