Angel Smith

[Angel Smith @Angel_Sis90]

@Outkick The final sentence in the article says "Cunningham (should be Carrington) came off the bench for Chicago......"

[Rosalina Lee @YoitsRosie]

Monica McNutt is clinging onto a dying narrative. The more this tired (and misrepresented) take gets recycled, the less people take this type of media seriously

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

@RealCandaceO @AndrewKolvet Candace's supporters are saying she didn't actually say these things. Here are the receipts, most from a single Shawn Ryan interview. I've transcribed every episode on YouTube. There's more.

[Christine Brennan @cbrennansports]

Caitlin Clark is 2nd in the WNBA in assists per game and T-4th in points per game.

A year ago, her fellow players ranked her as the 9th best guard in the league.

This year, they dropped her to 11th.

This really is one of the most interesting stories I’ve ever covered.

[Robin Lundberg @robinlundberg]

The general public sees Caitlin Clark constantly clobbered in the WNBA

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

The WNBA left Caitlin Clark off their 30th anniversary poster. We have truly never seen anything like this. The league got a golden goose and is doing everything they can to kill her.

[Christine Brennan @cbrennansports]

I’ve never tweeted about a poster before. 😂 There are far more important things. That said, I heard from a few of you and gave it a look. So I’ll just pose a question: have we ever seen a sports league — a business enterprise — actively try to not make as much money as possible?

[Speakeasy @speakeasytlkshw]

"If Caitlin Clark keeps getting fouled like this, there won't be a WNBA!"

– @CutonDime25 says if the WNBA doesn't protect Caitlin Clark better, the league is going to dissolve

WE ARE LIVE RIGHT NOW ➡️ https://t.co/71DOlQim57

[Robin Lundberg @robinlundberg]

The WNBA must suspend Alyssa Thomas for the dirty play she made against Caitlin Clark.
https://t.co/QiRwfe9OxU

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Caitlin tweaked her back on this foul. Eventually checked out and didn’t return. The @wnba unfortunately reaps what it sows.

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

What are we even doing here? Brutal cheap shot. These women would still be flying commercial without Caitlin and this is how she is treated. Insane

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

It’s insane how the WNBA allows the most important, influential, & popular player in league history to get treated like literal garbage.

Caitlin Clark deserves better.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

I’m going to say this as calmly as possible:

Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach.

Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great.

It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big.

And that is insane.

This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her.

She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude.

No.

Her attitude is not the story.

The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance.

This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.”

That is what this looks like.

The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it.

And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped.

Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd.

You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room.

Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing.

Fans are not stupid.

They see the fouls.
They see the double standards.
They see the jealousy.
They see the media resentment.
They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her.
And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly:
People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled.
They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great.
If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid:

Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark.

At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question:

How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her?

Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse.

It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care.

https://t.co/AAxFrO46Z4

[Angel Smith @Angel_Sis90]

@DBGyt_ When there was 3 minutes left in the game, I asked Google AI how many 4th quarter pts Paige had in tonight's game bc I knew she was racking em up. It said that she had 0 4Q points due to resting bc it was a blowout! Wth?

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

For some reason, two clear-cut assists by Caitlin Clark were not counted vs the Mystics, robbing her of a historic accomplishment.

The WNBA needs to do the right thing and give Clark these assists.

My latest for @Outkick/@FoxNews: https://t.co/w3y2zkEPyh

[Clark Report @CClarkReport]

Caitlin Clark was not credited with assists on either of these plays, leaving her 2 assists short of the 6th 30 point 10 assist game in WNBA history

It would have been her 2nd such game, more than any player in WNBA history

[Mick @DBGyt_]

Paige ranked ahead of Caitlin & has more top 50 teammates according to ESPN...

Title or bust expectations surely???

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

If requiring an ID to **vote** is racist...

then requiring an ID **anywhere** is racist.

This is basic logic.
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84% of voters, across both parties, want voter ID.

Jim Crow prevented citizens from voting; the SAVE act prevents non-citizens from voting.

It's popular among the people, and only unpopular among politicians.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

MUST WATCH: Woman EVISERATES woke attendees and council members in Howard County, Maryland, for supporting a bill that would restrict the city and town from cooperating with ICE.

"I'm surrounded by people who suffer from TDS, who have been brainwashed by the media... NO ONE has mentioned any victims that have been r*ped, mutilated, trafficked, used as drug mules, killed, by illegal immigrants."