Comments Thread For: Claressa Shields Offers Caitlin Clark Boxing Lessons

[Poopdick]

I feel sorry for people like you that walk around looking for things to pretend to be oppressed by. Your racism is transparent and you can't mask it with faux concern for Clark.

just call it as I know it to be true. but hey I guess it won't bother me to be felt sorry for by some stranger I'll never see or talk to lol. good riddance

[Teetotaler83]

Lmao stfu bltch. She doesn't even know who you are

[Smash]

wtf keybard

[Elheath]

I kinda asked on the other thread as well, but if anything unlike NBA where being non-black is definitely a minority, I feel like there are a significantly more white/non-black stars in WNBA than black ones ratio wise? Atleast the ones I heard about on the news that randomly comes by on the internet seems to be many white ones.

In my super flimsy knowledge of WNBA names I've heard of in the past year on news...Sue Bird is not black, Diana Taurasi is not black, Maya Moore is black, Aja Wilson is black, Brianna Stewart isn't black, Sabrina Ionescu (not saying she is equivalent to Bird/Taurasi and such in accomplishments but in terms of similar hype out of college) is not black, and now Clark is not black.

[Left Hook Louie]

Yes, but in Caitlin’s case there is a whole other subtext going on. You also have to question why her teammates don’t jump to her defense more…I couldn’t see the Boston Celtics letting rookie Larry Bird get hammered without retaliating.

I think there's a wink-and-nod conspiracy (yeah, I said the C-word) to rough her up and make her quit.
So my wish for Ms. Clark is to persevere, excel, and lead her team to a title and show those biotches what a real winner is.
We shall see. The good part for Clark is that she has that fat $28 million endorsement and can walk away from this thinly-disguised harrassment whenever she wants.

[famicommander]

dude if it was a white league and she was black the blacks in the good would be burning their own neighborhoods down and it would be a huge wnba is racist news story. and no I don't follow the league. ain't ever watched girls bb. don't really even watch men's. buy I do know the way of our country right now. and she should just go elsewhere and let wnba linger in obscurity like it always has without her. now if you can change my ignorant mind and show me names of black rookie women who are targeted like she seems to be , then I'll gladly YouTube them and see

I feel sorry for people like you that walk around looking for things to pretend to be oppressed by. Your racism is transparent and you can't mask it with faux concern for Clark.

[Poopdick]

What ignorant act? Do you think she's the first white player in the league? Do you think she's the first white star player in the league? Do you think she's the first white star rookie player to take attention away from the established, black veterans?

She's the biggest star so far but we saw this same movie several times in the past, most recently with Ionescu.

I'm white myself. There might be a few racists in the league but the vast majority of this is simply what comes from contact team sports and rookie/vet dynamics. People who either don't follow the league, didn't follow the league until Clark got there, or are just looking to be offended about something need to educate themselves or shut their mouths. You're inventing a narrative that is not helping Clark at all.

dude if it was a white league and she was black the blacks in the good would be burning their own neighborhoods down and it would be a huge wnba is racist news story. and no I don't follow the league. ain't ever watched girls bb. don't really even watch men's. buy I do know the way of our country right now. and she should just go elsewhere and let wnba linger in obscurity like it always has without her. now if you can change my ignorant mind and show me names of black rookie women who are targeted like she seems to be , then I'll gladly YouTube them and see

[famicommander]

it's racism. stop the ignorant act

What ignorant act? Do you think she's the first white player in the league? Do you think she's the first white star player in the league? Do you think she's the first white star rookie player to take attention away from the established, black veterans?

She's the biggest star so far but we saw this same movie several times in the past, most recently with Ionescu.

I'm white myself. There might be a few racists in the league but the vast majority of this is simply what comes from contact team sports and rookie/vet dynamics. People who either don't follow the league, didn't follow the league until Clark got there, or are just looking to be offended about something need to educate themselves or shut their mouths. You're inventing a narrative that is not helping Clark at all.

[Poopdick]

Every rookie and every player in the league takes hard fouls. It's part of playing contact sports.

Only one player went outside the norm of what you see in any basketball game at the high level. Men's, women's, professional, college, doesn't matter. It's a contact sport that allows free player movement, and part of that is hard fouls.

Clark isn't acting like she's being mistreated. She's not asking for people to white knight for her on the internet. She's a competitor, she knew this would happen, and she's playing through it like everybody else.

it's racism. stop the ignorant act

[famicommander]

Yes, but in Caitlin’s case there is a whole other subtext going on. You also have to question why her teammates don’t jump to her defense more…I couldn’t see the Boston Celtics letting rookie Larry Bird get hammered without retaliating.

Her teammates aren't known for that kind of physical play. It's not a switch that people can just turn on or off at will. People are just fishing for narratives to be offended about.

Is there jealousy of Clark by some other players in the league? Yes, because all athletes are egotistical and jealous and every star rookie in every sport is a target.
Are there individual players that will step over the line? Again, yes, and again, it happens in all sports all the time.

Clark is doing fine. She doesn't need her teammates to baby her, she doesn't need her opponents to baby her. She came to the WNBA because she wanted a challenge and she's getting it. She could have stayed in college to be the queen of the nation and make pretty much the same money on NIL deals, but she stepped up. Her stats aren't very good at all, she's on a bad team, she's getting blitzed every play because she's the only capable ball handler on the court. She's taking her lumps and she'll come out of it better on the other side. She's not being treated any differently than LeBron James was as a rookie. Not any differently than Wemby in the NBA this year or Bedard in the NHL. The WNBA is a grown woman league and Clark will earn her respect.