Caitlin Clark blasts blatantly wrong takes on viral Fever sideline moment with Stephanie White

WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark had a message for those reading anything into the viral exchange between her and Fever coach Stephanie White over the weekend.“There’s a lot of people out there in the media or on TV that think they know a lot of things, and they’re just blatantly wrong about a lot of things,” Clark firmly said on Monday.The exchange between Clark and her head coach during Saturday’s 100-84 loss to the Portland Fire has drawn plenty of reaction from those who cover and follow women’s basketball. The discourse has been based on speculation about the relationship between the two, and Clark vehemently stood by White when she addressed reporters. “First of all, two people being competitive.Two people that really want to win,” she said.

“I think a lot of those things happen all the time.And I know there’s a camera on me, and that’s how it’s going to be.

… I ride for Steph.I ride for these girls.

Steph has my back more than anybody.So, you know, nobody in our locker room, or Steph, or our coaching staff thought twice about it.

It’s just another example of what everybody, all of you, want to blow up and make something that is just lost and not in reality.”White reiterated that feeling when she spoke with reporters, saying, “the moment died right then.” “We can’t control the outside narrative,” White said.“We can’t control where people choose to take a snippet of an instance in a game or whatever it might be and run with it.

We know that people are always going to have an opinion about what we’re doing in here, people are always going to have an opinion about Caitlin.It’s the reality of the world we live in, the reality of the job we have.

But it’s not the reality of what the relationship is like.”The moment was sure to create a stir from the start. Social media video captured the pair in a verbal disagreement during a team huddle that occurred just before the Fever superstar was removed from the benc...