Its one game into the new WNBA season and Im already exhausted by the drama around Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark
We’re only one game into the new WNBA schedule and I’m already exhausted.After just 40 minutes of action, everything is — once again — mired in middle-school mean girl controversies.Proxy race wars have launched all over X.
And there’s a heated crossfire between commentators like Ryan Clark, Emmanuel Acho and Robert Griffin III over whether or not Angel Reese hates Caitlin Clark.(I have a feeling neither have any real love for each other — and who cares).It’s gonna be one long season, folks.In Saturday’s game, Clark and the Indiana Fever — having loaded up on talent in free agency — blew out Reese’s Chicago Sky.It was a 35-point walloping that included Clark netting a triple double and her teammate DeWanna Bonner moving up to league’s third all-time scorer.On one hand, the league knew putting these two teams together would bring eyeballs.
On the other, it’s all devolved into a sideshow involving nebulous claims of racism.During the third quarter, Clark fouled Reese as she was going for a layup — and Reese charged at Clark, but the Fever’s Aliyah Boston stepped into the fray to protect her star guard.Reese was held back by her coach and shouted what sounded like some f-bombs at Clark.
It was upgraded to a flagrant foul against Clark, and both Reese and Boston were hit with technicals.In typical form, Clark yapped at the refs and disputed that it was flagrant.After the game, she acknowledged that it was up to the officials.As the Sky forward went to the free-throw line, the Indiana hometown crowd at Gainbridge erupted in boos and jeers.
After all, this is basketball, not a knitting circle.As for Reese? “Basketball play,” she said.“Refs got it right.
Move on.” Sure.Except this league has a knack of digging into nonsense that overshadows the game.
The WNBA is now investigating charges of “hateful comments” at Saturday’s game.There are no details about the allegations, where they came from or who they were directed at, ...