🚨 SERIOUS QUESTION: WHY IS OLIVIA MILES’ “MATURITY” NEVER DISSECTED LIKE CAITLIN CLARK’S?
We have video of Miles cussing out opponents — “pussy-ass na,” “punk bitch,”* using the N-word, talking crazy, getting technicals and carrying herself with EXTREME confidence.
And you know what? LET HER TALK HER SHIT.
But when Caitlin Clark talks trash, celebrates or shows the slightest arrogance, suddenly everybody becomes a psychologist discussing her “MATURITY.” 😂
These are the SAME people constantly telling us Miles is better than Clark.
So KEEP. THE. SAME. ENERGY.
As a Black man, I hate reducing sports conversations to race, but eventually I have to ask:
Would Caitlin Clark’s confidence be criticized this relentlessly if she weren’t a straight white woman?
Because it damn sure looks like people have decided WHO IS ALLOWED TO BE COCKY — AND WHO ISN’T. 🎯
🏀I WENT BACK AND CHARTED THE FILM. NOW I HAVE A SERIOUS QUESTION FOR THE WNBA.
I didn’t want opinions. I didn’t want narratives. I wanted to see it possession by possession.
So I rewatched Indiana vs. New York and charted the contact on Caitlin Clark myself.
And I DIDN’T EVEN FINISH THE 4TH QUARTER.
My film chart:
63% of the possessions I tracked with Clark handling the basketball featured what I graded as a hand-check, grab, pull or bump.
54% featured contact I graded as a defensive foul.
I counted 82+ separate instances of illegal contact.
On ONE POSSESSION, I counted 11 separate contacts that could’ve been whistled.
Now here’s the punchline:
Caitlin Clark officially went to the free-throw line FOUR TIMES.
FOUR. 🤣
So somebody at @WNBA needs to explain something to me.
Either New York suddenly assembled the greatest collection of perimeter defenders basketball has ever witnessed…
OR CAITLIN CLARK IS BEING OFFICIATED UNDER A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT STANDARD.
Because you cannot pick somebody up 94 feet, face-guard her, chase her through screens, hand-check her, grab her hip, redirect her movement and bump her off her path possession after possession and convince me that almost all of it is legal defense.
At some point, when the SAME PLAYER repeatedly receives this kind of physical treatment without a proportional whistle, people are going to start asking whether this is incompetence…
OR AN AGENDA.
And THAT is the conversation the national media seems terrified to have.
@espn@espnW@WNBA — ROLL THE FILM.
Don’t show me Clark complaining afterward.
Don’t show me her facial expressions.
Don’t debate whether she needs to “control her emotions.”
SHOW WHAT HAPPENED TO HER BEFORE SHE REACTED.
Because after charting this game possession by possession, I’m convinced the biggest Caitlin Clark officiating controversy isn’t the fouls they call.
IT’S THE ABSURD NUMBER THEY DON’T.
🎥 WATCH THE CONTACT. COUNT IT YOURSELF. THEN TELL ME I’M WRONG.
@IndianaFever #feverrising
@letstalkksports Nailed it 100. One play really stood out to me where km had a wide open sc on the right, dribbled into the paint and inexplicably passed it left
🚨BREAKING: Gene Simmons has delivered a strong and unapologetic message on immigration and patriotism.
The KISS co-founder and legal immigrant from Israel stated:
"If you don't like America, please go back to where you f@king came from."
He continued:
"250 years of telling the world if they don't like it, f@ck off. This is the greatest country... I myself am an immigrant, but a legal one. I came through the lawful way. You wait in line, you respect the country, respect its laws, and then you become a citizen of the United States of America."
Monty in Spokane suggests a Clay & Buck listener takeover of a WNBA arena. The Washington Mystics have trouble filling a 4,000 seat stadium.
Can you imagine? The WNBA would lose their mind.