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Basketball Hall of Famer Tamika Catchings, one of the legends of her game, has seen it all in the WNBA.

She played for the Indiana Fever for 15 seasons, leading the team to the 2012 league title as finals MVP. A 10-time WNBA all-star, she also won four Olympic gold medals with Team USA from 2004-2016.

So when Catchings calls something “unprecedented,” as she did in a phone interview Monday to describe this moment in the WNBA — with its epicenter right where she is, in Indianapolis — we can safely say that it’s something the league has never seen before.

At this crucial moment early in the 2024 season, with historic TV ratings, attendance, interest and now controversy, Catchings spoke with USA TODAY Sports on a variety of subjects.

including Chennedy Carter’s blindside hit on Caitlin Clark in Indiana’s victory over Chicago Saturday, Angel Reese’s reaction to the foul, which was later upgraded to a Flagrant 1, and the way Clark has adjusted to the WNBA, and vice versa.

Catchings said she was in attendance at the Fever-Sky game Saturday where the controversial hit occurred.

“The cheap shot, I don’t agree with that, I don’t agree with that, especially that’s where injuries happen,” she said.

“The play itself was wrong. As a whole, we all have a responsibility to make sure that things like that don’t happen, for anybody to get hit like that.