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Depressed Patriots Fan | #ThankYouTom

[JayTakes @SportsWithJay0]

Stephen A. Smith on the cheap shots Caitlin Clark keeps taking:

‘There is a flagrant level of resentment when it comes to Caitlin Clark. She is the cash cow. You have people in the league resenting her star power.’

Brutal call out to the rest of the WNBA

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

"If I were Caitlin Clark, I would seriously consider going to play overseas somewhere and get the royal treatment…she's a straight white basketball player. And she is not being treated with any sort of respect" – Boomer Esiason

[Clark Report @CClarkReport]

CAITLIN CLARK BEHIND THE BACK OH MY

[Indiana Fever @IndianaFever]

Caitlin Clark game-winner as seen on phantom 👻🎻🎼

[Indiana Fever @IndianaFever]

ICE IN HER VEINS 🧊🥶

game-winning three from Caitlin Clark.

[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

[Clark Report @CClarkReport]

She’s an absolute psycho

[Polymarket Hoops @PolymarketHoops]

Caitlin Clark through 57 career games:

— More points than Diana Taurasi
— More assists than anyone
— More threes than anyone

We’re witnessing a legendary run.

[Shabazz 💫 @ShowCaseShabazz]

CAITLIN CLARK WHAT THE FUCKKKKKKKKK

[#FREE22 @TR_TheGeneral]

She's only played 55 games ffs. They will never understand what they watching.

[Mick @DBGyt_]

The "GOAT Guard" Vs "Washed"

[ARK Eclipse cAnon @Eclipse_cAnon]

This is very funny because we were told a decade ago that the kids who grew up with the ST would share their love of that era, like we did with the PT and The Clone Wars.

And here we are 10+ years after The Force Awakens, and Gen Z is watching... The Clone Wars.

George won.

[Ryan Rueda @PlayoffDude]

EVERYBODY BETTER THAN LEBRON UNTIL ITS TIME TO BE BETTER THAN LEBRON

[Will johnson enjoyer EX boyfriend @willjohnsonbf1]

She got them paid and they still hate her and are jealous of her

[Lakers Lead @LakersLead]

At 22 LeBron was asked to carry
At 30 LeBron was asked to carry
At 33 LeBron was asked to carry

At 41 LeBron is once again asked to carry

[Just T.J. the Army Vet @thomas_garrard]

I just paid $263 for two little stickers, that permit me to drive my cars, which I already paid sales tax on, for another year. On roads that I’m taxed to maintain, but are somehow not maintained. I feel violated.

[Mr. Sausage @MrSausageGet]

This is heresy.

No, it was founded on CHRISTIAN values.

This government is occupied by a foreign nation. None of this is ok.

[@kp_official1 on IG @kp_official_1]

Putting things into perspective like this should be enough to make people revolt

[Ryan @BanUnsweetTea]

Genuinely seems Trumps presidency is completely falling apart. Basic government services aren’t getting executed. He’s stuck in a quagmire in the Middle East. Job growth is negative and inflation is accelerating. Gas is 4-5 dollars a gallon. What a mess

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

Tom Brady is just different. 🐐🔥

@TomBrady @NFLonFOX