The REAL reason the WNBA hates Caitlin Clark fans



The Caitlin Clark effect is the term used to describe the skyrocketing ticket sales, viewership, game attendance, and economic impact the Iowa native has had on women’s basketball. It started in college when Clark played for the Iowa Hawkeyes, and now it’s followed her to the WNBA. With the touch of what seems like a magic wand, the league, having been inconsequential for years, is now widely popular.

Since Clark was drafted by the Indiana Fever, attendance across the WNBA has shot up 50% and ESPN ratings doubled since last year.

One would think that the WNBA would show gratitude toward Clark, who has drawn the public eye toward the league as a whole, but no – the legend responsible for viralizing women’s basketball is demonized by the very players, coaches, and commentators who should be thanking her.

“They get a gift sent to them called Caitlin Clark. She is sprinkling magic all around the WNBA, making a sport that no one likes likeable and watchable, and instead of showing any gratitude towards Caitlin Clark, they have sat out to destroy Caitlin Clark,” says Jason Whitlock.

Why the ingratitude?

For starters, “she's not black and she's not lesbian,” so she doesn’t “fit the demographics” the woke league wants to elevate.

Clark has “played this brilliantly,” though, says Jason. “She has said nothing; she hasn't been aggressive with any of these people; she hasn't done anything.”

Having nothing to pin against her, Clark’s critics and adversaries have opted to “complain about her fans” instead.

Clark has brought in a demographic that Jason says has long been uninterested in women’s basketball – heterosexual people.

“What they're really saying is we don't want heterosexual men and women and their children coming to our sex cult,” says Jason. “They don’t want the demographics inside the arena to change.”

“So rather than have this league turn a profit and … begin the process of being able to stand on its own two feet, the alphabet mafia is throwing a riot and a temper tantrum, and it's being very hostile towards Caitlin Clark because they'd like to break her and ruin her and destroy her so that they [can] install … preferably a black lesbian woman as the face of this league,” Jason predicts.

“In their delusional minds,” Caitlin Clark is undeserving of the notoriety and attention because “black lesbian women built [the WNBA]” and should therefore be the ones on the pedestal.

To hear more of Jason’s commentary, watch the clip above.

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Caitlin Clark's game-changing lesson on American sports



Caitlin Clark's influence reaches far beyond the basketball court.

“We just watched a woman, one woman, take a sport that no one cared about and probably increased the overall television ratings and the number of people that watch college basketball, women’s college basketball, this year,” Jason Whitlock says, impressed.

Whitlock believes the reason isn’t simply her talent but the way she presents herself and her values.

“She is a phenomenal player, and you know, shoots from deep, but mostly, trust me, if she had been all tatted up, and she had been a deep voice like Brittney Griner and just an out of the closet LGBT, I don’t think as many people would have tuned in,” Whitlock explains.

Clark, who is a Catholic woman in a relationship with a man, represents a return to traditional American values.

“It doesn’t matter whether it comes in a white or black packaging, because she just did what Michael Jordan did for the NBA, and Michael Jordan is about as dark skinned as any black person I know,” Whitlock says, noting that Jordan didn’t take a side politically and wasn’t all tatted up.

Jordan was all about the game itself and spoke highly of his parents and his upbringing. However, because big businesses like the NBA are run by people with an agenda, there’s been less and less of this in sports.

“Caitlin Clark just exposed everybody in sports. If they wanted success, it would mimic the behavior of the Iowa basketball program and Caitlin Clark,” Whitlock says.


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Caitlin Clark under attack for not being a black lesbian?



Iowa Hawkeyes superstar Caitlin Clark is the hottest name in women’s basketball right now and for good reason. She’s the NCAA's all-time leading women's scorer, she broke the NCAA record for most points scored in a tournament, and she’s considered the first-ever Division 1 player to reach 3,300+ points, 900+ assists, and 800+ rebounds in a career.

Clark’s extraordinary talent has caused a bit of frenzy in the domain of women’s basketball. Because of her, ticket prices have skyrocketed, lines of eager fans swarm for her autograph, and more people than ever before are flocking to watch women’s basketball in person and on television.

Popular news outlets are calling this “the Caitlin Clark effect.”

But as always, such wild popularity comes with a price. What is an inevitable result of unparalleled success?

Haters. And Clark certainly has plenty.

One of them is none other than three-time WNBA MVP Sheryl Swoopes, who was the first woman to be signed in the WNBA and who set the NCAA record in 1993 for the most points scored in a tournament — until Clark broke it in 2023.

Jason Whitlock plays a clip of Swoopes discussing Clark’s success or, in her opinion, the lack thereof.

“If you're going to break a record, to me, if it's legitimate, you have to break that record in the same amount of time that [the former record-holder] set it,” Swoopes said. “So if Kelsey Plum set that record in four years, Caitlin should have broken that record in four years.”

“But because there was a COVID year … she’s already had an extra year to break that record, so is it truly a broken record? ... I don’t think so,” Swoopes continued, suggesting that Clark is undeserving of her accolades. “But that will go in the record books as Caitlin Clark is the all-time whatever … but you have a 25-year-old playing against a 20-year-old.”

Unfortunately, Swoopes is dead wrong. Caitlin Clark just turned 22 on January 22, 2024.

She’s also dead wrong when it comes to the athlete’s shots per game. Swoopes argued that Clark “takes about 40 shots a game,” when stats prove that she’s taken “19.7 shots per game on average throughout her career.”

“That’s a lot of hate [and] a lot of bad information,” says Whitlock, who thinks Clark’s haters are guilty of not only jealousy but also of racism and heterophobia, considering Clark is a straight Caucasian.

“She's going to face a level of racism from black players, and she's going to face a level of hostility from lesbian players because she's not on team LGBTQ. She's a Catholic [and] she's got some boyfriend,” which means “she's going to walk into an extremely hostile environment,” he explains.

Steve Kim agrees, adding that Clark will likely receive the most hate from her future teammates once she enters the WNBA.

“When she gets into the WNBA, games that have maybe 2,000-3,000 will suddenly have 10,000 people” – many of whom will be wearing “Caitlin Clark paraphernalia” – and after the game, people will “race right past all these teammates that have been in the league for seven, eight years, who may have had more accomplished careers, to get [Clark’s] autograph,” Steve predicts.

“The endorsement deals are going to be with Caitlin Clark; all the appearances you have to make for the team in the league [will be for] Caitlin Clark. … The locker-room politics and the derision she is going to face over time is going to be really interesting,” he continues, adding that Clark will likely be painted as "the Great White Hope, the savior of the WNBA.”

Whitlocks agrees, but he also thinks alongside opponents and teammates, “the media is going to participate in the diminishment of Caitlin Clark,” as that’s “the woke thing to do.”

To hear the full conversation, watch the clip below.


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Caitlin Clark’s collision controversy



Iowa Hawkeyes basketball superstar Caitlin Clark often makes headlines for breaking records on the court. However, the current buzz surrounding the athlete involves a controversial incident that took place after Iowa’s disappointing loss to Ohio State.

Jason Whitlock plays the clip of Clark being knocked down by an Ohio State fan who was storming the court following the match.

Many have accused Clark of “flopping” or theatricalizing her fall.

“It all depends on which angle you look at it from,” says Jason, who admits that Caitlin Clark is “perhaps [his] favorite athlete right now.”

From one angle, it appears the fan “knocks Caitlin over,” but from a different angle, it looks like Clark does “a LeGron James-level flop,” he tells Steve Kim.

“I think Caitlin has to do a little bit more shoulder press,” says Steve, claiming the athlete is “dainty."

“It's a flop, and Caitlin initiated it,” concludes Jason.

Regardless of Clark’s theatrics, however, he still thinks she “has college basketball – the entire sport – on her back the same way that Tiger Woods had the PGA Tour on his back.”

“Caitlin Clark is the most relevant, popular, interesting, fascinating college athlete since Tim Tebow,” says Jason.

Watch the clip below, and decide for yourself if Caitlin is the victim or the culprit.


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