Despite Caitlin Clark is leaving Indiana Fever ‘Disappointment will be on Christie Sides

Many basketball fans were excited to see a budding rivalry between the Chicago Sky’s Angel Reese and Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark blossom this year, but another Sky player is building a duel of her own with the 2024 No. 1 overall pick.

Chicago’s Chennedy Carter was retroactively assessed a flagrant 1 foul for her hip check on Clark during Sunday’s 71-70 defeat.

She declined to address the sequence in her postgame press conference but subsequently made her feelings toward Clark very clear on social media.

In one reply on Threads, Carter criticized the rookie’s game.

“Beside three point shooting what does she bring to the table man,” Carter wrote.

In another, she called Reese “my dawg fasho” after the forward appeared to cheer from the bench after the contact.

Carter’s foul immediately became the symbol for two larger narratives that have quickly formed around WNBA discourse.

Older veterans “hate” Clark and the league is in effect allowing those players to take liberties toward the rookie by not cracking down on foul calls.

Carter’s remarks on Clark will certainly help to fuel the first storyline.

Her attitude isn’t all that exceptional, though.

No matter the sport, no matter the league, more experienced players are bound to carry a chip on their shoulder when they go up against younger peers.

That’s especially true when a rookie has as much hype as Caitlin Clark.