Dave Portnoy a legit Fever fan wasnt thrilled with Stephanie Whites fiery pregame speech

Stephanie White went to bat for her players, but Caitlin Clark superfan Dave Portnoy isn’t going to bat for the embattled Fever coach.After White delivered a passionate two-plus-minute rant Tuesday night in defense of herself, Fever players and the WNBA community following DiJonai Carrington’s hard foul of Indiana’s Sophie Cunningham and amid the discussion about the league that has entered the political sphere, Portnoy tweeted his qualms.“I am a legit Fever fan.If she just said ‘I f—-d up the other night.

I shoulda defended Sophie (MY PLAYER) and not DJ so I get why our fans our pissed at me’ maybe I can accept the apology.But this didnt (sic) really feel like an apology.

More her yelling at us for trying to divide the locker room or something,” Portnoy wrote.“Like blaming us for DJ tweeting ‘white privilege’ in the locker room.

That’s what is dividing people.Fever fans and players get blamed for everything under the sun.

We’re not trying to divide anybody but its Fever vs the world and we want a coach who feels and acts that way.”White’s message before the Fever’s 106-92 home win over the Liberty on Tuesday attempted to confront the two storylines that are engulfing the league — and mostly the Fever.In Sunday’s 90-86 road win over the Sky, Carrington, a former player under White, committed a hard foul on Cunningham, whose recent comments about trans athletes have set the league ablaze.Carrington hit Cunningham across the face and received a flagrant 2, but White said she did not believe that her former player “intentionally” committed the transgression.That led to Indiana Lt.Gov Micah Beckwith and others calling out White, with Beckwith even posting that the Fever “need to let Stephanie White go.”Indiana fans even booed White before the game, with Clark saying she “hated” that they did so.White defended herself Tuesday against those railing against her.“This isn’t necessarily for those people that are in thi...