The WNBA Caitlin Clark phenomenon has provided moments of astonishment and antagonism on the basketball court.
Clark’s new year in 2024 and the end of his university career saw several moments of confrontation with other players, sometimes including illegal successes in Clark.
Clark fans raised much of the criticism for those situations against the other players involved, but some figures within female basketball accused Clark of being a garbage conversation.
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The Indiana Caitlin Clark fever guard (22) and the Connecticut Sun striker Dewanna Bonner (24) exchanges words during the first half in game 2 of a series of playoffs of the first round WNBA, on Wednesday, September 25, 2024, in Uncasville, Conn. (Photo AP/Jessica Hill)
The Las Vegas Aces coach, Becky Hammon, suggested that Clark speaks more garbage than any other player in the WNBA.
“They scare each other, nobody speaks more than Caitlin too,” Hammon said at a June press conference.
UConn’s female basketball coach, Geno Auremma, during an interview about the podcast “make a difference with Phil Martelli” in November, said the reason why players go after Clark is due to their junk talk.
“Now she talks a lot about S — on the court,” said Clark. “When people talk about WNBA, ‘Why do these people hit Caitlin Clark?’ Because she talks a lot about the court.
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Angel Reese (5) and Caitlin Clark (22) (Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire through Getty Images)
After an infamous blow against Clark by Chicago player Sky Chennedy Carter in June, the former WNBA player, Chiney Ogwumike, said during an ESPN appearance that Clark spoke garbage before the blow happened.
“The WNBA has always been a physical league … and in the complete sequence of that play, Caitlin was talking, and in this league, nobody went back to talk about garbage,” said Ogwumike.
However, Clark suggested that all these statements that she speaks garbage is false during an interview about “My Next Guest does not need Netflix presentation with David Letterman.”
“People say I’m talking, I don’t,” Clark said.
Clark also added that opposite players do not speak trash either.
“No one really speaks to me, honestly, I swear. Maybe it happens next year,” said Clark.
Caitlin Clark (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
Clark also explained the circumstances that would drive her to speak garbage and admitted a time when it happened.
“The only thing is that, if someone tells me something, I will probably come back to you, but I’m not going to start it.
“Someone who spoke garbage was [former Phoenix Mercury star] Diana Tauurasi. But everything was very fun. We were playing at home, and she committed a foul, like, quite hard, behind. And I turned around, I told the referee: “It’s intentional, you didn’t go for the ball,” [and] She, as, came back to me, and I thought: ‘Very good, do it again.’ And we keep going and coming from each other, and then we went down to the other extreme. ”
Clark added that later in the game, Taurasi told Clark: “I love you.”
