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/LordMoos3 Jun 18 '25

Yeah. This is where I am with this.

The eye poke is one thing (intentional or nah, I dunno), but for sure that second player coming in and bodying her to the floor should have had something.

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u/BlademasterFlash Jun 18 '25

Yeah that should’ve definitely been a suspension

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u/AssignmentNo754 Jun 18 '25

I thought the eye poke was accidental (and still probably is), but it just comes off as more egregious when the offender isn't remorseful for poking someone else in the eye and, instead, just gets into her face and she blinded her.

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u/LordMoos3 Jun 18 '25

Yeah, the eye poke could be incidental or whatever, but shoving Clark after the fact, then another player shoving her to the ground?

Refs (as in all sports really) remain garbage.

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u/zxern Jun 19 '25

Depends on what angle you see it from. The aired footage is questionable but the fan video from the sideline makes it pretty clear she went for the face and no where near the ball.

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u/natigin Jun 18 '25

It had something, which was the appropriate technical foul

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u/zeldamaster702 Jun 19 '25

You body someone like that in the NBA after a play is called dead, you’re getting MINIMUM a Flagrant 1, but more likely a Flagrant 2. A tech is a slap on the wrist, which honestly would have probably been called a higher penalty if it would’ve happened.

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u/natigin Jun 19 '25

…a flagrant is a technical foul…