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Originally Posted by SAGA45
Honestly, I think the league welcomes the negative press, hell ANY press. The WNBA is trending. For the wrong reasons? Perhaps. But it's trending nonetheless, and I think that is all they care about at this point.
Clark may be less the savior and more the sacrificial lamb. For as many people who tune in to watch her score points, just as many want to see her get beat to shit.
Besides, it's too late now for the league to start cracking down on hostility because Clark hasn't been the only 'victim'. It's rather rampant. If the WNBA takes a hard stance now, it'll only fuel the anti-Clark sentiment and an inevitable belief that the league is softening itself to accommodate Clark and her inability to adapt to pro-level physicality.
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This is different. This is a bunch of smug bitches who are resentful that clark is growing the game in a different way. Caitlin clark isn’t a heel. She is a woman young girls who previously had no interest in the game aspire to be. But these veterans are so damn stubborn that they’d rather see the league fail in their own image.
The best thing the league can do is to let clark cook. And embrace her appeal. That doesn’t mean take it easy on her. But the approach of refusing to blow the whistle so players can hack the shit out of her to prove the league is tough is ****ing insane. And the narrative from the players and, worse, the media to convince the public they they should stop giving clark her flowers because she’s white is another level of insane. And we know damn well that’s what’s happening because the media narrative is run by the Jemele hills of the world who got away with this kind of shit before the league was popular, but now they are the dinosaurs who refuse to broaden the appeal of the league.