The idiocy surrounding her is asinine.
I am kind of concerned, a girl my son graduated with is a senior at Mizzou this year and will be going into the WNBA after that. She is no CC, but she has the Mizzou scoring record, I hope she doesn’t get this kind of treatment.
Here is another column critical of Clark without race brought in:
I don’t watch her enough to know if all of this author’s claims are accurate, but I have noticed some dramatic acting in clips when she does get fouled.
It’s not a good look. I know she wants to draw attention to it and get more fouls called, but she’s really just inviting more abuse and looking weak.
She can fight back best with her game. Embarrass them by beating them.
She does get hacked quite a bit.
The main problem is the WNBA and the players union has refused to acknowledge her impact.
When Tiger Woods (a black man) started dominating a predominately white sport, the PGA, and most of the players embraced it and promoted it because they knew it would increase fandom and in turn revenue.
I don’t believe for a single second that she’s being targeted because she’s white.
I’ve mentioned this before, but the Pistons and the Knicks used to beat up Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Horace Grant back in the 80s/90s.
Somehow I don’t think it’s because they were black. Isiah Thomas and Dennis Rodman were two of the three main offenders.
No, it’s because they were good, and the excessive force and contact were moves of desperation and frustration, because they couldn’t beat them legitimately.
The Pistons maintained mental dominance over the Bulls for years. What finally tipped the scales is when the Bulls quit complaining and doubled down on their focus.
As to your Tiger example: Golf is not a contact sport, so this is not even close to apples to apples. And I suspect Tiger has plenty of stories from before he was the world #1 about how he was treated in golf contexts by predominantly white locations.
And unlike Clark, I’ll bet he ignored that stuff when it happened and kept focusing on becoming an amazing player.
You may be right, the conservative media may be taking a race card from the deck of the legacy media.
TBH, I don’t follow the WNBA enough to have a qualified opinion.
Now, one thing that the data does actually show, is the attendance when CC is playing is night and day as to when she is not.
I don’t watch but I do read the articles. I don’t think her being white is the issue. It is all the attention she is getting that causes them to go after her.
The issue is the WNBA was shit before Clark. The lesbians are made and jealous of her. They went from commercial to charter plane and 3,000 seat arenas to NBA ones. Their pay has incresed too Average WNBA Salary Before the Clark Era
Before Caitlin Clark’s rise to prominence, the WNBA’s average base salary was around $102,000 per year, with most players earning between $66,000 and $250,000 depending on experience and contract type People**+1**.
Context and Numbers
According to Spotrac data analyzed by Sports Illustrated and Basketball Reference, the average WNBA base salary in the 2024 season — the last full season before Clark’s 2025 All‑Star Game and peak visibility — was about $102,000 People. This figure reflects the league’s long‑standing salary structure under the 2020 CBA, which set:
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Rookie minimums: $66,079 for first‑year players, rising to $100,510 by the fourth year of the rookie scale AthlonSports.com.
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Veteran minimums: $78,831 for players with three or more years of service AthlonSports.com.
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Supermax cap: $249,244 for top‑tier players with extensions or long‑term contracts AthlonSports.com.
Salary Range Before Clark’s Peak
In the pre‑Clark era, most WNBA players earned under $120,000, with only a handful exceeding $200,000. The top salary in 2024 was $215,000, up from $117,500 in 2019, but still far below the NBA’s average of about $13 million People**+1**.
Why It Matters
Caitlin Clark’s 2025 breakout — including her All‑Star Game leadership and record‑setting media attention — coincided with the WNBA’s push for higher pay and a new CBA. The league’s average salary has since risen sharply, with 2026 projections near $600,000 Sporting News, but in the years before Clark’s peak, the average was firmly in the low‑five‑figure range.
In short: Before Clark’s era, WNBA players averaged roughly $102K annually, with salaries capped well below today’s post‑CBA levels People**+1**.
They’ve actually been doing that for quite a while. Right wing legacy media and right wing Twitter grifters.
They love to stoke those racial embers and make something that may have been 10% applicable appear to be the whole issue.
You see the same thing with these videos of black kids beating up white kids in school. People get all worked up, but most of the time the videos are years old, being recycled for click revenue.
Definitely not endorsing the players’ actions. I think it’s low IQ and low income kind of behavior. But I deem race to be very unlikely a significant factor.
Oh, right wing Twitter is a dumpster fire.