In a match marred by tension and personal vendettas, the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky added another intense chapter to their rivalry at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Sunday.
The game took an ugly turn when Caitlin Clark was fouled in the head by Angel Reese with less than three minutes left in the third quarter. The officials reviewed the incident and penalized Reese with a Flagrant One.
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Reese could be seen completely missing the ball and making contact with Clark’s head instead.
She was called for a flagrant 1.
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The feud between Clark and Reese dates back to last year’s women’s college basketball season when Reese mocked Clark at the end of the national championship game as her LSU team defeated Iowa. However, Clark and Iowa had their moment of redemption this April when they eliminated LSU from March Madness to advance to the Final Four.
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The intensity of the bitter rivalry was evident earlier this month when Reese openly celebrated her Sky teammate, Chennedy Carter, after Carter committed a non-basketball foul against Clark, which was later upgraded to a flagrant foul by the WNBA league office.
Despite the Sky’s 4-8 record and the Fever’s 4-10 standing, the game had all the intensity of a playoff match, fueled in part by the animosity between Clark and Reese.
At the conclusion of the third quarter, the Fever held a narrow 68-66 lead over the Sky. Clark contributed 18 points, five rebounds, and five assists, while Reese managed nine points, 11 rebounds, and four assists.
The ongoing clash between these two teams and the personal animosity between the players promise continued drama and intensity in their future encounters.
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Where’s HER team? Zero support is appalling. Racism at it’s finest. F the WNBA.
The WNBA has an opportunity to develop in to something and become a profitable business instead of being carried by the men’s league. The racism is turning over 70% of the prospective fans away.
Devil Reese is very jealous of Clark, which she shows flagrantly. Reese is not a team player for the WNBA, and hurts the league.
Not one of basketball’s fans, either male or female – I just don’t find the game interesting to watch as a spectator. Also, I don’t know the rules and that includes concerning fouls. But as a lifelong hockey player, that looks like it could have been a foul out of carelessness, but still a foul – or it could be a player aiming a foul at her head when she didn’t have position to actually reach the ball.
What I DO recognize is that this is a struggling league with a minor fan base that is full of players that are repeatedly targeting and fouling one player, league rookie or not. Does the news name another player in this league that is fouled as often as this new star of the league is?
No. While most in the public would only recognize this player’s name (other than Britny Griner(sp?)) due to her prominence in basketball prior to joining this league, there has never been sports news coverage of another league player being repeatedly fouled and targeted for verbal and online defamation in public like this player is. Black or white.
Imagine the coverage in an overwhelmingly white professional sports league if a black rookie player get the exact same kind of physical fouls in play and public defamation by lesser white players. That would be on the national news and the White House and Congress would never shut up about it.
So, what is it, women’s basketball league? Jealousy from other players whose mediocre skills don’t measure up to the skills of this woman?
Or is it yet more black racism coming from the women who come from the hood?
A women’s basketball league wouldn’t get me to be a fan any more than the men’s league does. But this pattern of crap off and on the court, along with excluding this woman from the women’s Olympic team, increasingly looks like this league is more about black racism and Woke on display than a focus on successful professional sports and exciting athletic sports performance.