Caitlin Clark becomes the first WNBA player to drop 40 points and 10 assists in a game

[u/Twisbi]

https://sports.yahoo.com/wnba/article/caitlin-clark-sets-career-high-with-45-points-as-fever-eke-out-win-over-wnba-worst-storm-014352760.html

With a career high 45pts, 6/10 from 3, in 29 minutes during the Fever’s 110-107 win over Seattle. She also extends her record of most 30pts & 10ast games in WNBA history, as well as becoming the fastest player to reach 200 made 3s

[u/Dildondo]

Now to wait and see how the WNBA thinks this is a bad thing.

[u/0202_tihssitidder → u/Dildondo]

They were all screaming that she sucks this season.

[u/Shrabster33 → u/0202_tihssitidder]

The only hate I see for CC is from other WNBA players, officials, and commissioner.

I've never seen a league hate their biggest star and best player like this in any other sport.

It honestly needs to be studied because she only brings benefits. Is it jealousy? Do they not like being overshadowed? Do they not like seeing CC being attributed for growing the WNBA? What is it?

[u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus → u/Shrabster33]

It's utterly bizarre to me. Clark brings in revenue. She brings in money, sells out arenas. The league makes more money, likely brings the average salary up. Instead the players act like jealous children who throw cheap shots. Nobody gave a shit about the league until she showed up. It's a league propped up by the NBA. The players seem hellbent on killing their golden goose. Gretzky had goons protecting him, so does Clark.

[u/GoodPiexox → u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus]

The players

not just the players, NBA commish Silver had to beg Cathy Engelbert WNBA commish to suspend the player over the throat punching incident. NBA player have been paying their bills for over 30 years, they finally have a draw that could make the league self supporting and they want to run her out of the league.

[u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson → u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus]

Michael Jordan needed people too

[u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus → u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson]

He did. But NBA players weren't doing what wnba players are doing to Clark. Jordan would get the occasional cheap shot. With Clark it's on a nightly basis.

[u/TheMireAngel → u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus]

The fact their are endless edits of her getting clearly assaulted and they do nothing is revolting

[u/robbiegoodwin → u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus]

Steph got that for awhile until draymond showed up lol.

[u/mojomarc → u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus]

Depends if Jordan were playing the Pistons or not 😂

[u/ValorMorghulis → u/mojomarc]

The knicks were very physical too.

[u/Gobblewicket → u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus]

The Bulls drafted Charles fuckin Oakley to stop that kinda stuff. Then the NBA made rules changes to stop it as well. There was a reason Jordan didn't win the east in the 80s.

[u/Fantastic-Boot-684 → u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson]

Rodman especially in the 2nd threepeat

[u/Azmoten → u/Fantastic-Boot-684]

Rodman was such a gremlin of a basketball player fr. He came in really clutch, and he did it while looking and playing very strange. His history is fascinating.

[u/funktion → u/Azmoten]

Rodman walked so Draymond could run

[u/Belexandor → u/Fantastic-Boot-684]

Rodman was a self aggrandizing punk who did almost nothing to protect Mike bc by that time, no one in the league was going to get away with touching him. Horace Grant (and before him Charles Oakley) actually did the job that people think Rodman was signed to do.

[u/UnlikelyAssassin → u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus]

It’s not that bizarre. Racism is alive and well. We obviously know these players would not react this way if she was black. It’s racial envy of them seeing someone outside their race succeed.

[u/jimbojangles1987 → u/UnlikelyAssassin]

This is 100% what it is and anyone denying it is trying way too hard to be willfully ignorant.

[u/Elkburgher → u/UnlikelyAssassin]

Reminds me of when Tim Tebow was popular that one year in the NFL

You had all these black qbs coming out talking about how unfair it was and they all were better than him but never got the chance to play in that running style but he did because of race

[u/Size-- → u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus]

The WNNA commissioner and other players need to pull their heads in and leg Caitlin Clark flourish - she's bigger and more important to the popularity of that league than all the other players combined.

[u/ntshstn → u/Shrabster33]

you should check the wnba subreddit then, last time it popped up on my feed as a subscriber it completely grossed me out to the point of unsubbing with how bad they were dunking on her

talk about killing your golden goose, it was on a post about her complaining about a foul but even when she's been getting absolutely beat up for ages now and nothing's been done so obviously she's fed up, her team needs more enforcers besides sophie

[u/Necessary_Winter_808 → u/ntshstn]

The majority of that sub are counter-culture individuals who don't actually know hoops. They hate that the wnba is becoming more mainstream.

[u/fake-reddit-numbers → u/Necessary_Winter_808]

The majority of that sub Reddit are counter-culture individuals who don't actually know hoops.

[u/BobDude65 → u/ntshstn]

Not just that sub, Reddit in general hates her, I’ve seen it all over this sub too.

[u/apollyonzorz → u/Shrabster33]

The Crabs in a bucket mentality maybe?

[u/Gotta_Go_Slow → u/Shrabster33]

The league is toxic as hell. It all reeks of nothing but jealousy and racism.

[u/GO_IRISH → u/Shrabster33]

You’re close, but not qwhite there

[u/UnlikelyAssassin → u/Shrabster33]

Do we really need to address the elephant in the room here? Let’s be real: does anyone seriously think this would be happening if she was black?

[u/ZapatasGuns → u/UnlikelyAssassin]

And straight. That certainly doesn’t help her either.

[u/treeaeon → u/Shrabster33]

She is white.

[u/HeavyGoose8183 → u/Shrabster33]

You ask the right questions. Answering them honestly would get a person banned.

[u/El_Chairman_Dennis → u/Shrabster33]

They wanted to build the WNBA as it's own separate sport with different strategies, that's why they argue against a shorter rim for women, it makes fire a different basketball strategy. Then CC showed up and is just playing like the best NBA players without the dunks and the WNBA is mad that she's successful by just copying the men

[u/Gradschoolmaybe3 → u/Shrabster33]

Ya, women get the most hate from other women. That's how it be sometimes.

[u/Hilazza → u/Gradschoolmaybe3]

Sometimes?

Most of the time on online discourse its a woman hating on another woman for some reason

[u/Can-i-Pet-Dat-Daaawg → u/Shrabster33]

There’s a bunch of fans that also hate her because they hate the new fans she’s brought.

New fans calling out the bullshit toxicity and shit refereeing that has been, up until now, accepted and even encouraged - and these weirdos that like the version of WNBA that nobody cares about nor makes any money get up in arms and butthurt

[u/tsspartan → u/Shrabster33]

She’s white and good

[u/robbiegoodwin → u/Shrabster33]

There’s a very vocal subsection of fans who hate her guts too. Check the subreddits. It makes no sense. The entire league and fans are trying to mean girl ice her out

[u/Chief_H → u/Shrabster33]

My guess is the WNBA has been around awhile with many good players, but had always struggled to get mainstream attention. Then CC came along and started getting way more attention than any player before her while still playing in the NCAA. There was some pushback arguing her success was due to the lower competition in college basketball, but her continued success in the WNBA really refutes that. Also, there's the unfortunate support she gets from racists by being white in a black dominated sport.

I think its a shame the WNBA doesn't help promote it's most popular player. There's potential to capitalize on her fame to promote the league, yet they'd rather sink their own ship than admit the impact she's had.

[u/UnCFO → u/0202_tihssitidder]

Wasn't she coming back from a recent back injury or something that probably affected her play?

[u/Kosher_dingus → u/UnCFO]

She had a pretty nasty groin injury at one point. For people that have never suffered an injury there, it’s one of the most aggravating and debilitating you can get

[u/jrh038 → u/0202_tihssitidder]

Literally, in a thread yesterday you had people arguing Indiana was better /wo her on the floor.

[u/Foreskin_Mafia → u/Dildondo]

I believe the commissioner has already suspended her for this.

[u/airborness → u/Foreskin_Mafia]

I don't follow the wnba, but what's the thing that they have against CC?  I know early on, there were a lot of players who were down playing her, but I didn't realize it was still something that's going on and even the wnba is against her too? 

[u/Foreskin_Mafia → u/airborness]

I don't know for certain. I presume its a female thing so I'll never understand it. Maybe something to do with blood moons. Regardless CC dominates then and the league would be irrelevant without her.

[u/KoreanSamgyupsal → u/Dildondo]

She bout to get beaten up by Angel Reese and suspended by the commissioner and when she returns, benched by her coach lol.

Idk why the League hates Clark.

[u/oaklandorbrokeland → u/KoreanSamgyupsal]

You really don't know why? I don't even follow basketball and the racism against her is fucking obvious as night and day.

[u/remacct → u/oaklandorbrokeland]

They seem to have a problem with her being straight also

[u/WeBackYeah → u/remacct]

If there was a bunch of straight white women treating a gay black woman the same way she has been there would be protests and marches.

[u/oaklandorbrokeland → u/WeBackYeah]

but blacks can't be racist, haven't you heard? They are just salty that no one wants to watch the WNBA bc before Caitlin Clark there was really no reason to.

[u/Boxing_joshing111 → u/Dildondo]

Worth losing an eye over surely.

[u/USDXBS → u/Dildondo]

The WNBA leadership doesn't want eyes on the league. They want to kick back and cash their checks. Caitlin Clark is exactly who they DON'T want in their league.

[u/teddybundlez → u/Dildondo]

That sub is racist as hell

[u/GiantsInTornado → u/Dildondo]

Better get Sophia on the scene to point out the blame.

[u/MrInopportune → u/GiantsInTornado]

Do you mean Sophie?

[u/frozengash → u/Dildondo]

She might lose an eye for this

[u/Shot-Possibility-399 → u/Dildondo]

yeah see shes really not that good, and all the catty losers who assault her on the court are really better and have done more for the wnba and womens sports than cc ever could! they all deserve as much money as lebron per year also

[u/Kosher_dingus → u/Shot-Possibility-399]

Before Clark, grimes was the only WNBA player that I could name, and that was because of the Russian prison/weed situation

[u/Mahlegos → u/Kosher_dingus]

*Griner lol

Probably makes your point even more so though.

[u/TheSussyWaffle → u/Dildondo]

Theyre gonna call for her chromosomes

[u/BarKnight]

This will simply make the WNBA treat her worse

[u/wanked_in_space → u/BarKnight]

That's a paddling

[u/iburnedmytongue → u/wanked_in_space]

No, that's a technical.

[u/apollyonzorz → u/iburnedmytongue]

Ref didn't see nothin

[u/a_weak_child → u/wanked_in_space]

and by paddling you meaning getting concussed, beat up, slapped, scratched, tackled, and disrespected by some of the toughest, strongest, largest women around.

[u/luisc123 → u/BarKnight]

You score 40 points? Right to jail

[u/NiceTrySuckaz → u/BarKnight]

I was going to say, what the hell are they going to do to her this time?

[u/TheJaice]

Imagine what kind of numbers the 10 better guards must be putting up!

[u/scfoothills]

Her 17/19 shooting on free throws during the game was not mentioned in the article. They must have been fouling the shit out of her.

[u/connerconverse → u/scfoothills]

shes what SGA thinks he is

[u/ThinkFree → u/connerconverse]

🤣

[u/Shot-Possibility-399 → u/scfoothills]

as usual!

it is just assault at this point, they arent playing a game, theyre just committing violence

[u/nelly2929]

 Not bad for the 11th best guard in the WNBA according to the ladies 

[u/sickwobsm8]

Damn, guess it's time to punch her in the throat for absolutely no reason again

[u/LoudBrick609 → u/sickwobsm8]

Nah, this is an eye clawing performance

[u/ripkin05 → u/LoudBrick609]

good ol kick in the muff.

[u/apollyonzorz → u/ripkin05]

As is tradition.

[u/Elkburgher]

Not the face of the league though they say

[u/CA_Orange → u/Elkburgher]

Tbf, she's mostly in the news due to being assaulted, fouled, and injured. So, that does, technically, make her the face of the league.

[u/adamcmorrison]

She’s the only reason I started watching sometimes. I grew up in Indiana so any good Indiana basketball is fine with me.

[u/shapu → u/adamcmorrison]

You and millions of other people. The fact of the matter is that her Fame from college has translated to the wnba, and earned the league and its players collectively tens of millions of dollars that they wouldn't have earned otherwise.

The fact that both the league and her opponents are willing to torch all of that because of some personal grudges and perceived slights and weaknesses says a lot, and none of it good.

[u/Wide_Course_5807 → u/shapu]

It's because they are subsidized by the NBA. They do not need to turn a profit when they have deep pocket owners funding their league. They want you to believe they were relevant before her...which they were not (at least their salaries)

[u/AnduwinHS → u/shapu]

"Personal grudges and perceived slights and weaknesses" = Racism. Her fellow players hate her because she is the first star in a predominantly black sport, as a white woman

[u/Kosher_dingus → u/AnduwinHS]

Don’t forget, heterosexual as well

[u/UnlikelyAssassin → u/shapu]

It’s not personal grudges and perceived slights and weaknesses. It’s just straight up racism at the end of the day.

[u/Newtracks1]

Yeah but one time Angel Reese collected twenty-two rebound in a single game.

[u/bjacks19 → u/Newtracks1]

Out of pure curiosity, how many of those rebounds came on her own missed shots?

[u/shef175 → u/bjacks19]

Like, a lot

[u/LewisLightning → u/shef175]

23

[u/Crowned_Hero → u/bjacks19]

At least 3... In one possession

[u/Small-Palpitation310 → u/Crowned_Hero]

Plus 2 technicals on the other team

[u/MyLegIsWet → u/bjacks19]

*MeBounds™️

[u/Lmoneyfresh → u/MyLegIsWet]

Butter pecan....BANG!!!

[u/slash37 → u/bjacks19]

21

[u/Mcswigginsbar → u/bjacks19]

Just, SO many.

[u/Altruistic_Fun3091 → u/bjacks19]

Let's just say Moses Malone had nothing on her.

[u/JauntyGiraffe → u/bjacks19]

most of them

[u/hey_ooo → u/Newtracks1]

Mebounds

[u/EchoRush93 → u/hey_ooo]

Butter?

[u/h0tandgl00my → u/EchoRush93]

Butter pecan?

[u/1bentpushrod → u/h0tandgl00my]

BANG

[u/_kehd → u/hey_ooo]

Ya know what. That should be an actual stat distinction. And we should name it exactly that

[u/InternetProtocol → u/_kehd]

She's copyrighted the term, no memes.

[u/BulltopStormalong → u/Newtracks1]

One time Angel Reese ate twelve Angel Reese Big Mac meals in a single sitting, no vomit.

[u/Potential-Win-582 → u/Newtracks1]

22 MEbounds

[u/Twisbi → u/Newtracks1]

Tbh I’d kill for a player on my team to show that much effort rebounding

[u/shavedaffer → u/Newtracks1]

Psh, you think that’s good? I heard she can do 22 rebounds in FOUR QUARTERS of a game. Insane stats. 

[u/NIN10DOXD]

I was told she was a bust and the hypes was dead by some people on Reddit. lol

[u/slapsheavy → u/NIN10DOXD]

The only reason you know the WNBA still exists is because of Caitlin Clark. Put some respect on her name.

[u/pilgermann → u/slapsheavy]

That other one who points at people is getting pretty popular too.

[u/Small-Palpitation310 → u/pilgermann]

They’re on the same team

[u/chacogrizz → u/pilgermann]

She was defending Caitlin Clark which is like hilarious in such a sad way that the player who should be the face of the league gets treated so poorly that her teammate who trys to protect her is getting popular for exactly that.

[u/NonGNonM → u/pilgermann]

she was recently at a UFC event and asked dana to be a ring girl. unfortunately her PR isn't going to be great for a bit.

[u/mikeyj198 → u/[deleted]]

Popular enough they recognized it’s a different person!

[u/Shot-Possibility-399 → u/NIN10DOXD]

ive seen "she's not even good" then they point to one of the criminals on the court who broke the rebound recovery record, which really is just an embarrassing record to get

[u/aaronuu7]

40 point game surely her fellow WNBA will be happy for her and not be jealous and try to rough her up.

[u/FrozenLaughs]

What's more impressive is she's also the first WNBA player to drop 40 points and 10 assists in an MMA match.

Wtf is going on in these games lately

[u/ChadLaFleur]

How did all the other higher ranked WNBA guards perform?

Better than CC, right?

[u/taylordevin69]

I’m sure her fellow wnba athletes will be very happy for her and not try to poke her eyes out every game out of jealousy

[u/Shot-Possibility-399 → u/taylordevin69]

you mean you expect those people to not commit felonies?

[u/oldwatchlover]

Pretty good for the 5th best point guard in the league /s

(A WNBA survey of players ranked her 5th best PG)

[u/erv4 → u/oldwatchlover]

I thought it was 11th best? Or is that just any guard

[u/TurkishDonkeyKong → u/erv4]

Yes 11th best guard

[u/connerconverse]

not just 40, 45 points in 29 minutes played

[u/prezpreston]

And just like that, 500 Caitlin Clark Reddit posts from the last week magically disappeared

[u/freakdageek]

*is immediately punched in the crotch by every other player* Yay WNBA!

[u/teddybundlez]

r/wnba in shambles

[u/Informal_Treat4634]

Every wnba post is full of people shitting on Clark, Reese, or another player none of them have watched. Can yall just enjoy sports

[u/StillwaterJerry → u/Informal_Treat4634]

It's insane... I've never seen "fans" act like it before. They're all hurting the sport

[u/Informal_Treat4634 → u/StillwaterJerry]

They’re not fans, they just know the Clark Reese college beef and have tried to ruin the WNBA over it. Shit sucks

[u/Turnip_Fight → u/Informal_Treat4634]

Sports legacies are built on rivalries

[u/Informal_Treat4634 → u/Turnip_Fight]

It’s a bit disingenuous if you look at this post and think these are normal rivalry comments

[u/Turnip_Fight → u/Informal_Treat4634]

I’m speaking of the two athletes and not necessarily the chatter around them idk I just burnt a big fat cone

[u/Shot-Possibility-399 → u/Informal_Treat4634]

really? seems like to me people actually want to watch the games and the sport of basketball, not a bunch of psychopaths commit violence. seems like the people on the court cant control their emotions and play better, so they just go full animal and commit violence.

[u/Informal_Treat4634 → u/Shot-Possibility-399]

Stop with the racist bullshit bot

[u/Another1MitesTheDust → u/Informal_Treat4634]

This is gonna be a right winger spam thread brother don’t bother.

[u/Informal_Treat4634 → u/Another1MitesTheDust]

Women’s sports brings out the most uneducated haters, not surprised but seeing the echo chamber on this post was too much lol

[u/m3kw]

Che gonna get beat up harder by players next game

[u/as1126]

She’s the eleventh best guard in the league.

[u/safarifriendliness → u/as1126]

Just imagine how good she’d be if they punished people for fouling her

[u/Shot-Possibility-399 → u/safarifriendliness]

well that would be racist if they did that

[u/supercoolpartydude]

Some WNBA enforcers are going to do a legit WWE style tag team finisher to foul her now. Thinking the old Road Warriors Doomsday Device. Can’t have her bringing too much attention to the league 😂.

[u/Derptionary → u/supercoolpartydude]

Get the tables

[u/Shot-Possibility-399 → u/supercoolpartydude]

they already have been, it's essentially cage matches for her on the court

she's got some indomitable spirit thats for sure, love of the game isnt enough to get put up with this shti and still ve the fucking best player in the league.

every other wnba player just be setting records for worst performance stats

[u/EchoRush93]

The wnba is a joke. Until they start treating CC like the star she is, they'll forever be a joke.

[u/-Dakia]

I definitely read through a thread the other day where people were saying she was cooked.

[u/AnnArchist]

"Shes still not the face of the league"

[u/flyjum]

i dont know anything about the wnba or basketball but somehow know who caitlyn clark is

[u/ChemicalResident3557]

It took more than one player to rescue the NBA. Until the WNBA realizes that there are a handful of players including CC to build the league around, this is going to be a shit show amongst players and fans.

[u/Shot-Possibility-399 → u/ChemicalResident3557]

lol what?

im assuming you think the assholes trying to gouge her eyes out every match are the ones to also be worthy to promote the league?

[u/Graybeard_Shaving]

If the haters were not mad before, they gonna be big mad now!

[u/IShouldNotTalk]

So what I'm hearing is she'll be assaulted by opposing players even more.

[u/Visual-Actuary2504]

Why is she hated when she's this good? Is it jealousy.

[u/UnlikelyAssassin → u/Visual-Actuary2504]

It’s racism.

[u/procouchpotatohere]

And of course people are yet again turning it into CC vs the WNBA. Fucking hell, these people don't actually care about the game or her. They only care for the drama and to shit on the league as usual....

[u/mtmckenzie]

Just when people were starting to turn on CC she delivers a performance like that.

[u/bigjason2121]

Fwiw, Seattle has beaten Atlanta and New York Liberty...

[u/dey19th]

This thread 😂

[u/sorany9]

She probably sucks though… /s

[u/Syrath36]

Now the hater players will voter her the 12th best guard.

[u/MeLlamoDave]

Clark is the reason I paid attention to the WNBA for the first time since the Sheryl Swoopes Houston Comets dynasty.

[u/NewPrints]

But how many mebounds did she get?

[u/turkey-gizzards]

She would be a star if she was a lesbian

[u/BigDaddyDumperSquad]

Funny, Reddit has been talking about how shitty her game is for the past few days.

[u/JacobDCRoss]

She is objectively the best at what she does, but enough people are bigoted against her, and enough people who root for her are bigoted, that no discussion is untainted.

Long and short of the story: Fans need to leave the other players alone. No more threats, items thrown on the court, or other harassment. And the other players need to be called when they hit Clark. Simple as.

[u/UndeadSalamander]

racists are gonna hate this

[u/rizzyrogues]

Well when you have congress interfering and allowing her to do whatever she wants of course this is going to happen.

JK

Go Caitlin!!!!! 6/10 from 3 is pretty fkn awesome

[u/LordBopo]

Not bad for the 11th best guard in the league!

[u/PETZING_ELITE_OC_DET]

Ok but I was told she was one of the biggest busts in North American sports history.

[u/surlymoe]

Because of course she did. But, let's not protect her i. Any form or fashion because, fuck her for being the face of our business, amirite?

[u/atarijpb1969]

11th ranked guard. Obviously doesn’t know what she’s doing.

[u/Da_Stable_Genius]

Good for her

[u/sinocarD44]

She about to get drop kicked and then suspended for getting kicked in the chest.

[u/Sorry-Joke-4325]

To drop?

[u/Valuable-Shirt-4129]

Bravo!

[u/Intelligent_Bag_6705]

Wait it was wasn’t Angel Reese? Weird.

[u/DeepInTheSheep]

Not bad for a CNN reporter