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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.

Maybe it’s her fame. Maybe it’s her money. Maybe it’s the attention she commands. Maybe it’s just being the hotshot rookie who still needs to prove herself. You’d find all of these motivations in other sports and other circumstances as well.

Or maybe it’s just that Clark plays a hard, physical and in-your-face game herself.

Whatever it is, the spice — and shoving — has become a constant and that should add a nice bit of interest to things. The most popular sport in America? Controversy. Nothing like some bad blood and uncertainty of what might happen next to draw in fans, or at least keep them as Clark’s game comes together.

“Yeah, I wasn’t expecting that,” Clark said of the shoulder knock down. “But it’s just like, ‘Respond, calm down and let your play do the talking. It is what it is. It’s a physical game, go make the free throw and then execute on offense.’ Feel like that’s what we did.”

Carter, for her part, didn’t want to discuss it with the media but made her points on social media.

“Beside three point shooting what does she bring to the table man,” Carter asked in a post.