Was it Racism?
There is a sports story which is barely being covered. That is the reception that college women's basketball star received in a recent WNBA game. Throughout that game which featured prominent rookies from an outstanding female class, there was an undercurrent of hostility. In the third quarter, Chennedy Carter knocked collegiate star Caitin Clark down during a stoppage in play and was later charged with a flagrant foul. This wasn't part of game play, this was just a shot taken at a player standing on the line.
The question is why?
There were high fives given to Carter by teammates who watched the unprovoked hit.
Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese said she will “take the bad guy role” in her rivalry with Caitlin Clark if it means continued growth for women’s basketball.
It was the first time Reese had spoken to the media since a hard-nosed game against Clark and the Indiana Fever on Saturday that has sparked continued debate ever since.
Reese, who was seen clapping and hugging Carter after the hard foul on Clark, was fined for refusing to speak to the media after that game.
Caitlin Clark: Chicago Sky star Angel Reese says she will ‘take the bad guy role’ in rivalry | CNN
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Let us leave aside Reese for a minute.
What do we think of the Chicago Sky player who cheap-shotted Caitlin Clark, in the back yesterday, knocking her to the floor, calling her a "bitch?"
It's part of the game. Stuff like this happens in virtually every sport.
The imbeciles who are trying to make this about race can and should be dismissed out of hand.
You mean it is the star rookie treatment?
Could be looked at that way. I've seen veteran players do the same. Hell, LeBron childishly pushes himself across the court for just running past him.
I guess that's the best description of LeBron I've heard thus far: "childishly."
Trying to keep it kid friendly. Don't want to hurt anybody's feelings.
Does he really think he's better than Jordan?
I think he does.
After the Bulls won their first championship, they won 5 more, which was every year Jordan played a full season. More than that, none of those "Finals" series went to a seventh game. Someone on social media commented on LeBron James good record in seventh games. Jordan replied "whats a seventh game? I havent been in any . "
Michael Jordan is the Babe Ruth of basketball. Other players might equal him in this skill or that, but no one has ever matched his will to win. Maybe one guy - Bill Russell, who may be the second greatest player of all time.
Spot on. Most have LeBron at #2. I would put him closer to #5 behind Russell, Kareem and Magic.
you mean like these weekly black vs white stories?
my granny got suspended from a penn high school about 100 years ago for using her elbow to move some aggressive playing girl's nose under her ear and my nephew's daughter hot her arm broken in a basketball game last year. girl sports are rough.
My oldest was a vicious defender in Basket Ball but always said drill team and cheerleading was harder.
None of them got away with anything playing soccer, but the youngest discovered field hockey. Her brother played ice hockey and showed her how to use that stick. She was already a soft ball star, lot's of penalties.
Good times....
You got off on the wrong foot. This story has been heavily covered by national media.
No answer?
I have no idea what you are talking about. I have seen this story on numerous national news shows.
If that is so, why hasn't it appeared here?
Cuz it's not about my favorite sport curling, and shenanigans are rarer than look alike snowflakes.
There has always been a racial undertow to the game of basketball. The same situation existed in basketball that existed in baseball and football. For many years black players were excluded from the highest professional level of the game, and even from college teams.
In 1963 Loyola Chicago won the national championship, and they were one of the first teams that had players of different races rooming together. A couple years later Texas Western became the first team with a black starting five to win the college championship. The University of Kentucky, under coach Adolph Rupp , famously refused to recruit black players. As the 60's and 70's went by basketball became a largely "urban" game, with black kids playing in the school yards and parks all day long. The best college and pro teams began to be dominated by black players, who were presumed to be more "athletic". Players like Pete Maravich and Larry Bird began to be seen as "great white hopes", the minority of white players who were superstars in a black dominated sport.
Over time black people began to believe that basketball was "their" game, and white players were just along for the ride. That has changed some in the 21st century as an influx of Europeans has changed the racial dynamic somewhat but it is still there.
Caitlin Clark is about as white bread as you can get, and there is resentment among some black players that she is the most popular player in womens basketball before she even played a single game as a pro.
Of course, she appears to be good enough to deserve all that publicity on her merits alone. That is the conundrum of the current situation.
There is a bit of truth in what you say.
I've heard it said back in the day that Jim Brown played on hate. I'm not supporting that theory, but I'm sure others have heard it too.
The only conundrum is if the WNBA is dumb enough to wreck their version of Michael Jordan?
I am sure the NBA would love to stop propping up the WNBA and have it come a financially independent organization.
Is it OK for some players to harass her with flagrant cheap shots and then give high fives to each other for doing so?
Nobody would be paying any attention to these resentful women if it wasn't for this talented straight white girl.
Basketball play can be rough, but this flagrant cheap shot in the back is not part of the game.
Le Bron told her to keep her mouth shut and keep moving forward.
If all goes well she will have the last laugh for many years.
Are the WNBA players trying to kill the goose that laid the golden egg?
Clark is their Michael Jordan if they don't fuck it up.
I don't remember anyone bitching about Jordan's skin color. It was "Everyone wants to be like Mike!"
Clark is drawing in new audience for the WNBA; new advertisement revenue; and more importantly getting young girls interested in basketball who before Clark wouldn't have even considered playing.
The WNBA should be concentrating cultivating on the court rivalries between Clark and their premier players. The NBA had Jordan vs Ewing; Jordan vs Barkley; Jordan vs the entire Detroit Pistons team; Jordan vs Bird; and Jordan vs Magic. Players upped their game when playing Jordan- and the NBA capitalized on it.
Instead WNBA players and the refs seem determined to beat Clark into mediocrity.
If Clark fails then so does the WNBA- even worse than it historically has.
Why would anyone bitch about Michael Jordans skin color? When he turned pro the NBA was already a black dominated league.
There is no doubt that Chennedy Carter's hip check into Caitlin Clark was a cheap shot, and she received a flagrant foul for it.
I dont know if anyone can say for sure it was racially motivated , but I think it would be fair guess that it had something to do with Clarks popularity.
It was called as regular foul during the game. after the game it was upped to a flagrant foul on review.
Hip check? It was a bit more than that including shoulder. Watch again.
You just posted a video that has "hip check" in the title.
Don't care what the title says. I have eyes with which to see. Watch it and still disagree. Methinks you can't....... honestly anyway.
John is correct, they should have called the video the hip check/forearm shiver one two move. A hoops move perfected in the hood …..
She bumped her with her hip, it is quite obvious. However, the upper body comes into it some, as you say. Watch the video again and you will see her flip her hip into Clark.
Already saw it. I was pointing out exactly the same as you. There was more to it than just a hip. Thanks for confirming.
And gave a little right hand help at the end.........
Who is drawing new fans? Clark or Carter?
This is a sign of our times. If you can’t beat an opponent fairly within the rules, with superior play, you resort to thuggery.
That said, turn this around and then tell me this didn’t have racist overtones. That is to say, the white player cheap shotted the black player the same way. There would have been a brawl. Of that there is little doubt.
And the media and the women on "The View" would be all over it and call it racism.
Clark is not playing college ball anymore. She is playing with pros...
Then she should cheap shot one of the sisters. I mean, that’s the pro move according to you.
Sounds like Clark has been initiated into the pro world. Y'all should watch women play hockey, Clark would not have gotten up after some of the hits seen there.
I have no idea if the cheap shot was racial motivated. I feel confident that if it were a black player getting the same hip check from a white player cries of racism would be screamed from the rooftops and the liberal media would be looking into the white players past to see what they could dig up when the player was 5.
And there would have been a brawl on court I promise you that.
The hypocrisy coming from some here is egregious and copious.