The emergence of Caitlin Clark as one of the best WNBA players in the League during his rookie season came with a lot of scrutiny, since the skill of the Indiana fever star was spoken constantly during the summer.
Clark’s career, and even sexuality, were mentioned as conversation points during the 2024 season and seem to be in the experts’ summary again this season. However, Basketball legend Cheryl Miller seems to be finished with those issues.
CLICK HERE for more sports coverage at Foxnews.com
Indiana’s fever guard, Caitlin Clark, #22, greets its former teammates on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 during a game of the Ronda Uno in the Tiaa Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament between the Iowa Hawkeyes and Wisconsin’s Badgers in Winebridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Grace Smith / Indiestar / USA Today Network through IMAGN images)
Miller appeared in the podcast “All The Smoke” by Stephen Jackson and Matt Barnes this month and backed away “Big Dummies” that made Clark’s career a problem.
“I’m going to be honest, because you have to say it,” he said. “I can relate to that young woman, and I felt for her. I know what it is to be hated. I know what it is to be a black woman and be hated by my color. I cannot imagine this young woman, I do not want to use hatred, but despised.
“She brought some of herself, a little, because she is arrogant for a good reason. And I love that of her. But seeing the dynamics and the media, had her narrative. And she was happy and proud to see that the narrative was not the truth. And Angel (Reese) and she got along so well.”
Miller praised Clark and Angel Reese for putting the preconceived animosity that they could have taken aside to meet for the 2024 star game and play well on the floor.
“I didn’t know how talented it was and how well I see the game in a 3D version, a thinker. Defensively, much better than I thought and gave him credit,” Miller added. “Then, see it and spend a little time … and one thing, which I have learned, is to step back and let these children themselves.”
The WNBA team guard, Caitlin Clark, on the right, is next to Chief coach Cheryl Miller against the US National Team. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA Today Sports)
The WNBA star, Cameron Brink, ‘expelled’ for the idea of male athletes who potentially practice with sparks
When critics did not recognize Clark’s impact on the game in a short time, Miller suggested that she was amazed.
“I thought: ‘Come on, great dolls!’ Is it published? “I can’t blame her for what they gave her. Look, as much as they gave him, you can’t tell me that the door would have turned on the other side where he did not live up to expectation. Come on, people are still waiting for them to fall. “
Clark was appointed athlete of the year of Time magazine, and even that prize with feathers in the league.
The co -owner of Washington Mystics, Sheila Johnson, said in CNN that the magazine should have awarded the prize to the entire WNBA.
“Why couldn’t the WNBA have put on that cover and say: ‘The WNBA is the League of the Year’, due to all the talent we have,” said Johnson. “When you highlight a player, he creates resentments, so now you are starting to listen to racism stories inside the WNBA, and I don’t want to hear that.”
The WNBA All-Star coach, Cheryl Miller, playfully hits the back of the head of the Caitlin Clark guard during the practice of the WNBA star on media day in the Footprint Center in Phoenix on July 19, 2024. (Patrick Breen / The Republic / USA Today Network)
The fever was reached again in the low season with a very different team that was on the floor last year. Starting at the bank, Stephanie White took over Christie Sides as a chief coach. The team added Dewanna Bonner, Sydney Colson and Sophie Cunningham to the list too.
Indiana will have 41 televised games nationwide this season.
