Sophie Cunningham, Caitlin Clark’s teammate and Enforcer in the WNBA, shares that opposing teams have had it out for the league’s “Golden Goose” since last year.
The WNBA is the worst league in sports history. Every week we hear of more insane moves by the league that has never made a profit.
Last year the WNBA was blessed with the graduation of the Iowa star who crushed NCAA scoring and assist records, but the league didn’t bring her in with open arms. The league instead welcomed Caitlin Clark with some of the worst abuse and attacks we have ever seen in sports history.
But no matter what they did, they couldn’t stop her. Here is Clark scoring 9 points in less than a minute in a game earlier this year.
Here is a cleaner video of Caitlin going bananas. Just insane. pic.twitter.com/TJom6tG5fa
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) June 14, 2025
Clark, is the greatest scorer and point producer (when adding points scored and points off of assists) in NCAA women’s basketball history. She crushed NCAA scoring records and she brought a fan base bigger than any woman’s basketball player in US history with her to the league. She was one of the top sports stars in the country in 2024.
But the league didn’t welcome her. The players in the league were jealous and tried to physically hurt her – a lot. Clark suffers greatly in games in numerous ways. The below example is how the players and the refs abuse Clark. In this series, Clark is poked in the eye by the opposing player after grabbing and pulling Clark all game long. Then the opposing player assaulted Clark and pushed her. Clark was like get away from me. Then another opponent punched Clark in the back while another opponent crashed Clark to the floor. None of Clark’s teammates stood up for her when this happened.
Umm this angle is pic.twitter.com/tyMSWooUir
— Jess (@FeverBandwagon) June 18, 2025
The result of this exchange was a foul on the girl who slammed Clark on the floor, and a foul on Clark!
Here is evidence. Photos don’t lie. The finger pointing, the punch in the back and the push after she gets hit in the eye. And Caitlin Clark was given a technical on this non basketball play. https://t.co/f0vNJTMV1C pic.twitter.com/mtXNel01zz
— CCFC- (@sohali2012) June 22, 2025
After not missing a game during her college career, Clark has been out numerous games this year for injuries. The greatest shooter in the history of the game and for that, she is pummeled by opposing players, game, after game, after game.
Caitlin Clark Takes a beating out on the floor, Do you think it’s because she is White or because she is better than they are? pic.twitter.com/6cJsRBQ1m6
— Johnny Midnight ⚡️ (@its_The_Dr) May 29, 2025
While Clark is out, the WNBA loses half its audience.
WNBA Panics as Attendance Collapses with Caitlin Clark Injury
Last year, the WNBA members on the Olympic Committee and the nasty coach of the WNBA’s Minnesota team (Cheryl Reeve), prevented Clark, the best player in the country from being on the Olympic team. It was the worst decision in Olympic history in decades. Clark could have brought so many more viewers to the game. But they kept her off the team.
After two years of getting hammered on the court, Clark was not able to play at the WNBA All-Star game. Clark has not played for most of this season due to injuries.
Can you guys remember a star male athlete getting treated this badly by the league as a whole? Not one team, basically every team. This is year two now of this for Caitlin Clark. Not rookie hazing. So many cheap shots: pic.twitter.com/RhnuStkbzY
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 18, 2025
One random act in all this madness happened during the game when Clark was pounded on the floor by three opposing players noted above. At the end of the game, Clark’s teammate Sophie Cunningham stepped in and stood up for Clark.
Sophie Cunningham: The Enforcerpic.twitter.com/aOyGxFk4XH
— Clark Report (@CClarkReport) June 18, 2025
Finally, a player stood up for Clark after the pounding she gets from other teams while the worst refs in sports look the other way.
Sophie Cunningham recently shared what we could all see. Other teams are going after Clark with a vengeance.
Cunningam revealed how her former team, the Phoenix Mercury, planned to play Clarkf during the phenom’s rookie season in 2024. Cunningham played her first five seasons in Phoenix before leaving to join the Fever this past offseason.
“You have seen players in our league try to, like, toughen up Caitlin… Even when I wasn’t on her team, I know the talks that Phoenix had in the locker room, like ‘no, we’re going to show her what the W really is,’ and I get it to a certain extent, and every rookie coming into the league, that’s how you’re going to treat em, but there’s just more for her,” Cunningham said on her podcast.
“And now being on her team and seeing it, I’m like ‘what are people doing,’ actually, it’s just too much, it’s too much. I’m over it, and if I think it’s too much, it’s probably too much.”
Cunningham was on the other side of the situation when she started a fight to defend Clark during a game against the Connecticut Sun earlier this season. Cunningham said that after the game, Clark exclaimed “finally!” in the locker room.
“In the locker room, she goes, I think she’s like, ‘Finally!’” Cunningham said. “But I think it kind of had our team together as a whole. Everyone was like, ‘we do have to protect eachother.’”
If: EVERYONE involved who is black – was instead white
AND
EVERYONE involved who is white was instead black….
The national outrage would be titanic and Federal involvement would be a given!!!!!
I hope Caitlin and Sophie get their millions and then the league goes broke. I watched one game and other than Caitlin, any decent high school team could beat these ghetto thugs and their alley ball.
Not only the opposite teams but also the WNBA elite.
Caitlin is Woke, but not enough, ……and she’s white.!!!
Watched a little bit, and gave up. Kind of like wrestling. Manufactured plot lines
and a show to back them up. Basketball was good, but the theatrics turned me away.
Best female B-ball player ever, and she’s not black or lesbian or anti Christian.
Black women jealousy!
The White players should make a point of pulling the black women players’ wigs off during every game. That would be so funny.
C.C. bowed her head and her white privilege and her wokeness no sympathy for her anymore.
There is a big difference between a foul and an assault.
Joe Hoft you are as bad as your brother concerning CC. Other than assists, she’s just not that good. Poor 3 shooter, whines all the time, won’t fight back, now injured-she isn’t long for the league.
You’re trolling, right? Clark’s power factor is so far beyond everyone else in the league, everyone, that you have to explain to people looking at the chart that there’s another dot, in the far top corner, seemingly unrelated to the performance distribution of every other player in the league. The one so far away, off by itself, that you might not even see it – That’s Clark.
“whiney, poor 3s”, ♂️wtfiwwy?
Growing up watching the NHL, this is standard practice in some sports. Two things, player needs to fight through it, keeping a focus on doing their job of scoring and team needs an enforcer to return any favors (to perpetrator or the other team’s star).
If the key player loses focus, the goons win. Its a cruel world and like it or not, that is how the game is played.
Sue the WNBA for radical officiating and encourage radicle behavior for billions against Caitlin Clark
I have never seen basketball played like this. The constant contact it’s just not basketball. And Joe the one comment it’s completely wrong she is that good. When she was able to play basketball in college without being constantly pushed and shoved and their hands constantly on her she’s the greatest ever. I hope Caitlin Clark milks it as long as she can and get as much out of her endorsements because they are paid out over time a lot of them. And then go somewhere else I’m done watching whether she’s playing or not it’s a joke. MAGA God bless
Unfortunately, the only way to stop someone from bullying you is to hurt them. Make their bullying more painful for them than it is for you and it stops instantly. A forearm across someone’s nose the first day this happened to her would have gone a long way to shutting this nonsense down.
Nope. Especially not in the women’s version.
If: EVERYONE involved who is black – was instead white AND EVERYONE involved who is white was instead black….
The national outrage would be titanic and Federal involvement would be a given!!!!!
Assassination Barbie should be trending now
I hope Caitlin and Sophie get their millions and then the league goes broke. I watched one game and other than Caitlin, any decent high school team could beat these ghetto thugs and their alley ball.
Not only the opposite teams but also the WNBA elite.
Caitlin is Woke, but not enough, ……and she’s white.!!!
Watched a little bit, and gave up. Kind of like wrestling. Manufactured plot lines
and a show to back them up. Basketball was good, but the theatrics turned me away.
Best female B-ball player ever, and she’s not black or lesbian or anti Christian.
Black women jealousy!
Thanks, Joe,
For exposing the poor sports in basketball against Caitlin. The WNBA is a disgrace to let this happen. Looks like roller derby against one white woman. That’s a racist crime and Caitlin should sue for millions in discriminstion.
When you come to a league as a superstar, it’s customary to give you a little bit of extra “attention”. I recall “Sid The Kid” Crosby, and players each taking a whack at him when he was a rookie and a few years after that.
Even when I started playing in a new hockey league I got a few “welcome to the league” extra checks/keep the change.
But hockey, albeit a very physical tooth-snatching sport, there is a code of civility. You get your 2 mins in the box and all is forgiven.
Not with Bball, nor the last 35 years in the NFL. When you start allowing twerking and celebratory choreography when you do your job successfully – things go all circusy. Womens sports are even worse. The (usual characters) hate themselves and everyone else around them.
It’s not just he Caitlin Clark deep 3’s that people like to watch. It’s that she spreads out the defense and you get to see exciting plays.
So there’s a lot less jockeying for position, and standing around, and a lot more player movement and fast plays.
This season every team has someone to harass and foul Caitlin Clark every game. For some reason they allow it even though their rule book does not. The WNBA seems to prefer the fighting, air balls, and drama that comes from overly physical play over the exciting plays you get from having great players.
I wouldn’t suggest watching games without Caitlin Clark. They are pretty boring. Just a lot of misses shots, uncalled fouls, phantom foul calls, and turnovers.
The White players should make a point of pulling the black women players’ wigs off during every game. That would be so funny.
Listen all you men out there, the world will be much more and completely peaceful when woman are in charge of everything. Especially if the women have brown skin. So, vote for women all you men.
C.C. bowed her head and her white privilege and her wokeness no sympathy for her anymore.
There is a big difference between a foul and an assault.
Joe Hoft you are as bad as your brother concerning CC. Other than assists, she’s just not that good. Poor 3 shooter, whines all the time, won’t fight back, now injured-she isn’t long for the league.
You’re trolling, right? Clark’s power factor is so far beyond everyone else in the league, everyone, that you have to explain to people looking at the chart that there’s another dot, in the far top corner, seemingly unrelated to the performance distribution of every other player in the league. The one so far away, off by itself, that you might not even see it – That’s Clark.
“whiney, poor 3s”, ♂️wtfiwwy?
Growing up watching the NHL, this is standard practice in some sports. Two things, player needs to fight through it, keeping a focus on doing their job of scoring and team needs an enforcer to return any favors (to perpetrator or the other team’s star).
If the key player loses focus, the goons win. Its a cruel world and like it or not, that is how the game is played.
Sue the WNBA for radical officiating and encourage radicle behavior for billions against Caitlin Clark
I have never seen basketball played like this. The constant contact it’s just not basketball. And Joe the one comment it’s completely wrong she is that good. When she was able to play basketball in college without being constantly pushed and shoved and their hands constantly on her she’s the greatest ever. I hope Caitlin Clark milks it as long as she can and get as much out of her endorsements because they are paid out over time a lot of them. And then go somewhere else I’m done watching whether she’s playing or not it’s a joke. MAGA God bless
Unfortunately, the only way to stop someone from bullying you is to hurt them. Make their bullying more painful for them than it is for you and it stops instantly. A forearm across someone’s nose the first day this happened to her would have gone a long way to shutting this nonsense down.
Nope. Especially not in the women’s version.
Assassination Barbie should be trending now
Thanks, Joe,
For exposing the poor sports in basketball against Caitlin. The WNBA is a disgrace to let this happen. Looks like roller derby against one white woman. That’s a racist crime and Caitlin should sue for millions in discriminstion.
When you come to a league as a superstar, it’s customary to give you a little bit of extra “attention”. I recall “Sid The Kid” Crosby, and players each taking a whack at him when he was a rookie and a few years after that.
Even when I started playing in a new hockey league I got a few “welcome to the league” extra checks/keep the change.
But hockey, albeit a very physical tooth-snatching sport, there is a code of civility. You get your 2 mins in the box and all is forgiven.
Not with Bball, nor the last 35 years in the NFL. When you start allowing twerking and celebratory choreography when you do your job successfully – things go all circusy. Womens sports are even worse. The (usual characters) hate themselves and everyone else around them.
It’s not just he Caitlin Clark deep 3’s that people like to watch. It’s that she spreads out the defense and you get to see exciting plays.
So there’s a lot less jockeying for position, and standing around, and a lot more player movement and fast plays.
This season every team has someone to harass and foul Caitlin Clark every game. For some reason they allow it even though their rule book does not. The WNBA seems to prefer the fighting, air balls, and drama that comes from overly physical play over the exciting plays you get from having great players.
I wouldn’t suggest watching games without Caitlin Clark. They are pretty boring. Just a lot of misses shots, uncalled fouls, phantom foul calls, and turnovers.
Listen all you men out there, the world will be much more and completely peaceful when woman are in charge of everything. Especially if the women have brown skin. So, vote for women all you men.