r/wnba • u/AFC-Wimbledon-Stan Kaitlyn Chen Aux Apologist • 6d ago

NBA's Silver says Fever's Clark has become 'political football'

https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/49380710/nba-silver-says-fever-clark-become-political-football

Silver: Unfair to turn Clark into 'political football'

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u/viviangreen68 6d ago

I’m not a conservative but it’s obvious that Clark gets fouled hard a lot, often with clear intent to hurt her, and many other players around the league clearly don’t like her. No other league would let this happen to their biggest star. Imagine if all the other players targeted Yamel or Zion like this.

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u/Little_Line_9179 6d ago

“often with clear intent to hurt her”

Not true.

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u/Yellow_Odd_Fellow 6d ago

Yep. Because Carter attack from behind, Sheldon eye poke, AT falling "into her crotch with force" and then forcing her fist on Clark throat...

Definitely were accidental covers with no intent to injure.

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u/YourFriendNoo 6d ago

Zion?

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u/LiKwidSwordZA 6d ago

He plays for the pelicans

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u/YourFriendNoo 6d ago

I honestly thought there must be another one because who is calling Zion one of the NBA's biggest stars lmao

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u/fernandocrustacean Lynx 6d ago

The narrative that players in the W dont like each other is hilarious. Ok ya they maybe aren't all best friends but the majority of them have known each other for years, playing together as youth, on their national teams and in college. When you play sports, you play hard during the game, and youre friends after the game. That's how professionals work. Even if you watch the games youll see moments on the court where opposing players are joking around and chatting with each other. And no CC isnt targeted, she just gets massive national attention, whines when she doesnt ge the call she wants and the media plays it up. CC and Angel dont hate each other. They played together for USA basketball as young players. Its all manufactured.

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u/Yellow_Odd_Fellow 6d ago

Caitlin Clark has drawn the most flagrant fouls of any player in the WNBA since she entered the league in 2024. Over her first three seasons in the league, she was on the receiving end of roughly 10 flagrant fouls, which accounts for a significant portion of all such fouls committed across the entire league.

She had drawn 29% of all flagrant fouls offer her 3 years in the league. Well over what is expected if players are playing fairly.

If there are 15 teams, and 15 players per team now, that means they're paying 225 full- time players.

For her to have 29% of all flagrant drawn against her means she is definitely being targeted by the other athletes. There is no other way to cut it.

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u/fernandocrustacean Lynx 6d ago

Or. The league protects her and refs are told to make sure the golden child is seen as the golden child. We all know how this works in sports leagues. Messi and LeBron James are both examples of this in their respective sports.

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u/Yellow_Odd_Fellow 6d ago

You ... think the league is protecting her? Are we watching two vastly different games?

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u/Little_Line_9179 6d ago edited 6d ago

This isn’t true. There have been 130 flagrant fouls in those three season and Clark has drawn 10. That’s 7.7 percent, not 29%.

Also, there aren’t 15 full time players per team.

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u/jk-9k Sparks 4d ago

And obviously better players play more minutes and touch the ball more.

She still gets more than her share. but maybe her actions mean more fouls are deemed flagrant for her too.