It’s pretty obvious that some WNBA players aren’t too fond of Caitlin Clark.
Which should turn out to be a pretty good thing for the WNBA.
The anti-Caitlin sentiment has been growing clearer with each passing game.
It flared up in the biggest way Saturday, when Chicago’s Chennedy Carter threw a shoulder into an unsuspecting Clark, knocking Clark to the ground.
Carter’s teammate, Angel Reese, an old Clark rival from college, cheered the move on from the bench.
This was a clear escalation of some head-to-head play between the two over the previous few possessions, including Clark appearing to throw an elbow at Carter and appearing to say something to her face.
Clark is a marked woman and it’s adding plenty of spice to a season where, unlike back in college, she can’t dominate the competition.
Anyone tuning in expecting 40-point performances with Magic Johnson-like passes was always going to be disappointed.
Watching Clark fight through adversity and rack up rivals is going to have to be drama enough. Besides, Indiana (2-9) is terrible.
Clark went just 1 of 10 from the field and scored a meager three points in a Sunday blowout loss to New York.
She left that game with an apparent ear injury after getting bumped on a screen.
The league clearly believes it can physically knock her off her game, a fairly common tactic against young players at all levels of basketball.
