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[George Kittle @gkittle46]

Also this grass looks great on Sofi’s field… wonder if we could get that all season

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

Omaneers sounds so familiar...

Can we get a guitar in here 😂😂

🎶WE'RE THE OMANEERS DRINKING ALL THE BEERS.. LET'S GO PLAY BALL🎶 #PMSLive

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

From the parking lot at the buzzer!!!! #cc22

[Iowa Women's Basketball @IowaWBB]

FROM THE LOGO! 🐐

[Adriana_CourtQueen 👑🏀 ⸻ 🏀 / WNBA / NBA @alwaysssaugtss]

❤️🏀 A message for Caitlin Clark

Not only are you my favorite player, but one of the biggest reasons so many fans tune in and support the WNBA every night. 💯

I know things have been tough lately. The criticism, the physical play, the noise, and the frustration can wear on anyone. But please remember that there are millions of fans who appreciate everything you bring to the game. 🙏

Keep your head up, keep smiling, and keep being you. The game is better because you’re in it. ⭐

The refs and the league need to do a better job protecting all players and keeping the game fair. Fans notice it, and we just want to see the best players competing at their highest level. 🏀

If I could give you a hug and tell you everything will be okay, I would. Better days are ahead, and the people who support you aren’t going anywhere. ❤️

[kb 💥 @kerrrr22]

This is actually fucking crazy 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[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

[Krysta 🤫🦜 @FeverBallUp2]

The Blatant & obvious fouls the Refs OPENLY allowed the valks to OPENLY commit on Caitlin Clark, Aliyah Boston, & Kelsey Mitchell multiple times all game long, but if they so much as looked at a valk a foul was immediately called on our players was disgustingly egregious & need to be addressed‼️

[Henry Petersen @hankpetersen3]

@CClarkReport If anything CC22 got fouled first before the perfect screen

[American Rivers Conference (A-R-C) @AmerRiversConf]

🥎: 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗.

For the first time since 1999, @StormSports is headed to the @NCAADIII softball world series in Salem, Virginia 🏆

#rollriversSB

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

They tried not to give her the assist 🫠. League hates greatness.

[Indiana Fever @IndianaFever]

Caitlin Clark is officially the first player in WNBA history to record multiple games of 30+ points and 10+ assists 🔥

Stats from Friday's game against the Mystics have been corrected, so she finished the game with 32 points & 10 assists 👏

[Henry Petersen @hankpetersen3]

@geoffschwartz Ridiculous at this point! Very clear they were assists no questions

[Henry Petersen @hankpetersen3]

@CClarkReport Clearly two assists no question about it!

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

She is her

[Henry Petersen @hankpetersen3]

@theashleycooke Council Bluffs, IA Stir Concert Cove

[Lexi (Kaufman) Cabrera @AlexaBliss_WWE]

My husband made a song out of my
Text messages… 👀 @RyanCabrera

[Frank petersen @Fmanjoney]

@kendalgreywwe #greygraps

[Henry Petersen @hankpetersen3]

@SolRucaWWE absolutely killed it on Raw after Mania! @WrestleMania @WWE