Can you rebound your own missed punch?
Video of the seconds before Clark’s foul.
Reece is a whiny (non-gender specific) This word is not allowed which means I'm not being very nice at the moment.
https://x.com/nocontext_nba_/status/1924173239309185096?s=46&t=f4MKbkOzpNU_o_bXlnvUlQ
Fever fans booed during her (missed) free throw.
WNBA investigating ‘hateful fan comments’ after Clark-Reese incident - ESPN
Allegations of racial taunts but no video evidence…possibly this?
https://x.com/jackmaccfb/status/1924216275296821555?s=46&t=f4MKbkOzpNU_o_bXlnvUlQ
Ha. The defender should have flopped wildly to get Reese called for a flagrant foul instead. Maybe next time?
The Reese-Clark storyline continues to divide the sports internets.
Today RG3 posted a video with his (white) wife in the background, criticizing Reese for being a drama queen and making herself the villain in the story. This followed a tweet in which RG3 said Reese “hates” Clark.
https://x.com/rgiii/status/1924115030687048163?s=61&t=nsVXZiCUm1aguM6ABLo7hA
Ryan Clark posted a response on his program attacking RG3 for joining the anti-black woman media and valuing whiteness over understanding the black female experience, or something of that nature.
https://x.com/jackfreemanjr/status/1924497188882706942?s=61&t=nsVXZiCUm1aguM6ABLo7hA
RG3 responds that RC crossed a major line and should be fired from ESPN;
https://x.com/rgiii/status/1924589523742110009?s=61&t=nsVXZiCUm1aguM6ABLo7hA
RC responded that he carried RG3 during their time together on ESPN and called him a shitty teammate on the field and in the booth.
https://x.com/realrclark25/status/1924595366067937308?s=61&t=nsVXZiCUm1aguM6ABLo7hA
I think this dynamic and drama is likely to follow both players throughout their careers, even though it seems largely media driven in reality. Neither of these two are breaking new ground in terms of attitude or competition dynamics.
What a joke, Recce fouls Clarke and nearly takes her head clean off and it’s no problem, Clarke fouls Reece going only for the ball and she looses her shit and wants to fight her. Talk about crazy, and yet pointing out this behaviour is ‘not understanding the black female experience’ ?
Lol ur country is cooked…
Jesus Christ this has nothing to do with our country. This is one immature, insecure, narcissistic young athlete who thinks her shit don’t stink and is throwing tantrums like my 3 year old.
We get it, you love taking pot shots at America. But FFS keep it on topic.
I don’t want to give Reece any passes on this, but I’ll suggest that being down by 14 probably already had her in a shitty mood.
That doesn’t make it right, and it might not even be true, but Reece does strike me as the kind of person to get very over dramatic, and I’m sure the scoreboard didn’t help.
And how much of this did she learn from her college coach.
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Also -
The Indiana Fever’s 93-58 win over the Chicago Sky last Saturday drew 2.7 million viewers on ABC. That set a record for the most-viewed WNBA regular-season game across ESPN networks and is believed to be the most-viewed WNBA regular-season game in 25 years, since the era when NBC aired the WNBA. The game peaked at 3.1 million viewers.
Saturday’s contest continued the trend from last year when the WNBA had 22 regular-season games that averaged more than one million viewers — the first time since 2008 that a WNBA game topped one million viewers.
From the outside looking in, one player works hard on her game while the other works hard on her brand.
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And mother?
Exactly, which is what it should be about but as with every thing in your country it turns into a race debate, which is what my observation was on that your country is cooked…
That as side how on earth Reece even gets a game is beyond me, she is absolutely terrible
Ah so this is the part again where you act like racism doesn’t exist and/or affect Australian sport. It’s I my an American thing and we’re just shit bc if it.
Got it. 
Sort of speaks to the point RG3 was making. Reese has made herself the villain in the Caitlin Clark story, with her on court and sideline antics. She basically takes equal credit for the ratings and it’s not for their shot-for-shot sniper duels. It’s the conflict. In that regard, she’s right. People want conflict and drama in sport and this aspect of the game is nothing new. That’s just the role she’s occupying now and RG3 basically said she should own it.
Ryan Clark is a Steeler legend but he’s off the reservation on this one IMO. When you find yourself agreeing with RG3 you know the other person needs course correction.
Oh snap
I find reading through the comments section of CC/AR threads interesting. This comes up a lot, “No one would know who Caitlin Clark is if it wasn’t for Angel Reece taunting her at the end of the championship game.”
This is like being more interested in the rap beef, than the actual talents of the rapper, or whether or not the song was good. I will be honest and say that it is mostly black fans, but I think the white equivalent would be pro wrestling fans (or Jerry Springer Show fans, or soap opera fans, or KISS and Motley Crew fans, etc.)
Regardless, they don’t care that one of the two is a far better basketball player. They watch for the drama.
I think this is similar to Shedeur Sanders, in a way. Sanders and Reece are very focussed on using looks, charisma, and off court antics to “build their brand.” This was one of the risks I’d heard about allowing college players to get paid. Whether or not its a bad thing is up for debate, but I am curious how this plays out 5-10 years down the road. Does it hurt these athletes? Or do they end up making a lot more money off a sub-par talent?
Related note: Bueckers is having a better debut than CC so far.
For a talented athlete the brand-build focus pays out sooner and likely fades quicker. But there’s no guarantee of financial success for talented athletes focused solely on the sport, either. We’re in the infancy of this duality so I suppose we’ll see which approach wins out on the whole.
I think recent history with Tiger Woods, MJ and others suggests that sports greatness provides the best foundation for brand building but again, those people are few and far between.
I think CC is following exactly the right path here.
This is true.
In the case of AR, she’ll probably come out way ahead than she would if she had to rely on her BBall skills.
In the case of Sanders, I think it’s the reverse. He lost $40 million in the draft, and he’ll have a hard time making that up if he doesn’t become a franchise starter somewhere. His net worth is $4 million, which is pretty good, but not worth the $40 million he lost.
In his case, I don’t believe that was calculated. He was just full of himself.