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WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert Fails to Protect Caitlin Clark

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WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert is unable to protect Caitlin Clark.

A quarter of the WNBA’s revenue is related to Caitlin Clark.  This is a part of her impact on the league and basketball in general.

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Clark puts up stats like this.

But rather than protecting her, the league is doing the opposite.

Last year, opponents bounced Clark around like a beach ball. (Clark ended up getting a technical foul on this series of events – wth – the WNBA refs are horrible).

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A couple weeks ago, Clark was beaten by an opponent who kneed her in the groin, then shoved her fist on Clark’s throat and tried to stomp on her. The refs saw it and called no foul. The woman who did it – Alyssa Thomas – played the victim after she and her wife – DeWanna Bonner – attacked Clark.

Former NBA basketball announcer Dick Vitale and a former NBA team doctor commented on the constant attacks on Caitlin Clark.

Clark’s coach is not on her side.

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The WNBA commissioner backed the abuser as well. No word about Clark being assaulted. How dare anyone complain about a white player in your league getting assaulted by two black married women.

This latest attack led to the US House GOP Study Committee asking for answers from the league. How can the WNBA allow this to happen?

Here is what ESPN wrote about Thomas last year:

Phoenix Mercury star Alyssa Thomas lowered her right shoulder and banged into Napheesa Collier to back the Minnesota Lynx forward down closer to the hoop. One attempt wasn’t quite enough for Thomas to get where she wanted to go, so she did it again.

Collier grabbed one of Thomas’ arms to prevent her from getting a shot up, and as the two got tangled, they stood chest to chest. Thomas — regarded as one of the best trash talkers in the WNBA — gave Collier an earful.

The WNBA is blind and tone deaf.  It turns out that the NBA Commissioner had to step in recently and demand that Engelbreecht penalize Thomas for her abuse (Thomas is the reason Collier is injured and not playing this year.)

The WNBA has things upside down in every way. Violence is accepted if Caitlin Clark is on the receiving end. It’s insane.

 

204 thoughts on “WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert Fails to Protect Caitlin Clark”

  1. Clark in not LGBTQ, and most of the league is…..that is the ( problem ?? ).

    It shouldn't be a problem, but it is. They attack her because she is not LGBTQ, like most of the players and female referees and coaches. WNBA league is a fleshpot of lesbians.

    • If she came out as having 3 gfs it wouldn't make any difference.

      Keep covering for black racism.

      Don't see any white carpet munchers trying to end her career.

  3. nice click bait Joe. I like seeing Sophie more, too.

    this story is just more of the same. women suck at being sportsmen

  4. Hard not to see the WNBA folding if Caitlin Clarke ever leaves the league. One can only take this kind of physical & mental abuse for so long.

  5. Complacency allows more of it to happen. The rules are there being ignored. Purposeful violence as long as its directed on the white girl.

  7. Perhaps the wnba thinks interest is up because their fan base like to watch het women getting savaged. Kind of like fighting in the nhl.

  10. A good portion of the WNBA are transgender men. So they can't help themselves from beating up on a white girl.

  11. WNBA leadership, you guys win! I no longer care about WNBA just like before CC! Also haven’t watched any NBA in decades! Other than a few highlights! Proud to say 100% China LeBonbon James viewing free!

  13. …and here I thought we might get through a week without a Caitlin Clark article. You're killing me Joe.

  14. The NBA must want the tax write off of the WNBA… Clark should sign her next contract in Europe.
    Take Sophie Cunningham with her, as her protection detail. The WNBA insists on killing their golden goose.

  18. There is something wrong with this entire topic. Whereas WNBA is not my thing, Ms Clark is clearly talented and has without question brought many eyeballs including my own to the game (league)that would otherwise have better uses for their time. Why jeopardize it??

  25. Background:

    Clark's coach is a former straight woman who converted to Lesbianism after she joined the league to fit in.

    Clark is hetero and white, two unacceptable things to the predominantly black homosexual league.

    The final strike is that she is way better than all of them.

  26. Then WHY doesn't the NBA commissioner Adam Silver start fining and penalizing the WNBA commissioner and coaches, referees and players for flagrant fouls?

    He sees them, the world see them but all that comes out of it is lip service!

    Fire any and ALL referees who turn a blind eye or bring in NBA refs to officiate games.

    A sport is only as good as the league that promotes it. Single out one person time and time and time again and the league and its entire staff become a JOKE, and jealous players become a stain on the sport!

  27. She should leave the WNBA, take the highest offer in Europe and tell these racist people to go to he!!.

  28. Whites invented basketball and Dookie skins are jealous that white females play it better than they ever can

  30. Catlin Clark stunk last night, even for a woman, 1 for 8 from 3 point land, 4 for 14 inside, lost the ball numerous times. First game I watched and she was bad bad bad.

  33. Mentally deficient with unbridled anger and rage is a powerful weapon!
    Supporting those affected is a crime!

  36. Hoft is obsessed with Clark to the point of being called a creeper. He definitely has a sick thing for her. Also, who cares? The chick is a whiney arse complainer and just asks for being abused by other players. I can't stand to watch any game for more than a few minutes.

  38. When the coolest thing in your sport is a woman pointing you know you have problems…. By the way, it wasn't cool

  39. Boycott the NBA, that will get their attention. The minute they lose a dime over the disgrace of the WNBA, watch how fast changes are made.

  40. Noting would make me want to watch the WNBA anyway, but the rampant violence and disrespect will just turn off viewers even more. Badly managed and run this stupid league is doomed to be nothing but a subsidized side show.

  41. Unfortunately, her politics makes it very hard for me to drum up sympathy for her.

  42. Everything about the WNBA is so disfunctional it must be a psychological disorder combined with multi-facing racism!

  43. This is the culmination of normalizing pathologies. Leftists in psychology have normalized their pathologies and have pathologized decent behavior, and this is the result. I just read a study about how leftism has destroyed psychoanalysis, which used to be effective.
    Being a lesbian did not even make the top 10 list of sins, but for some reason the movement hates God, Jews, and Christians vocally, the very groups that enabled their acceptance, and sides with the muslims who want them dead. That is what is accepted logic on the left and it causes problems in the subconscious as it is unable to resolve the contradiction.
    Nearly all of this is a result of various fixations which create default responses which deviate from reality and even biological imperatives. Every life form must ingest, expunge, and reproduce to survive, those are the core requirements. Fixate long enough and you can get off on anything, ergo, with real psychotherapy or reprogramming (brainwashing), new default/reflex responses can be instilled but the old neural pathway will still exist, the trick is to make the new one wider to become the reflexive response.

  45. Caitlin sue the league for a massive amount. Make them sit up and take notice. Start of with an injunction to ban your attackers, damages, stress, and punitive damages.
    There's massive amounts of video evidence .

  46. Who actually cares about the black lesbian league? They are unwatchable to most sports fans. That's why the only ones in the stands are family and friends. Without the subsidies from the stupid nba players they would fold in a week. Why the nba players share their wealth with them is beyond me. The revenue sharing by the nba is the ultimate dei outcome, haha to the nba players giving up their wealth.

  47. Clark isn't playing against the opposing team. She is playing against jealousy, bigotry, and heterophobia. My suggestion to Clark is to take a page from Sophie Cunningham's book….. Don't take shaet from anyone. Fight back with your fists, feet, elbows, teeth, knees.

  49. She just continues to take it and not stand up for herself in any way, shape or form. Maybe when she's disabled and unable to play she'll finally do something. Until then, I don't give a rat's wazoo!

    • They hate her because of star talent and does not outwardly demand BLM, LGBT or have mixed race situation like Paige Bueckers (that is why paige does not see same brutality)

    • They hate her because of star talent and does not outwardly demand BLM, LGBT or have mixed race situation like Paige Bueckers (that is why paige does not see same brutality)

  53. BWNBA is a joke. Whahtes are only acceptable if they denounce their race and renounce their whahtness

  56. Even thought Caitlin is Woke enough, she's also white enough while being best WNBA player, and that's a No No.

  58. The only games in the Woke NBA I watch are ones that Clark is playing in, if they have her out of the game I don't watch. I keep hoping Caitlin leaves the WNBA and soon, I want ot watch the collapse of the lesbian nigg@ league.

    I am kind of pi$$ed at Clark, as she put new blood into the veins of that scumbag league known as the WokeNBA, and now all because of her those lesbian carpet munchers got a pay raise instead, these animals belong back on a greyhound bus and high school gyms playing. They all suck and I don't mean dick only.

  66. Beating her up is what fills the away game stadiums.

    Ok doesn’t fill them but increases attendance

  73. This is a form of game fixing, which is illegal. And if the league only wants lesbian lady-mooses on the court, then stop complaining about the ratings.

  75. The same thing you see at festivals and any public gathering These savages can’t function in civilized society. Hopefully one of them don’t get jealous enough to pop a cap in somebody

  77. The wnba is garbage. The only reason why they allow this is because more people talk about that then they’re actually talking about the product itself.

  81. No one in the WNBA is going to do squat for Clark.

    She needs to leave before she sufferers a serious injury.

  83. Good Grief—-That "league's" only purpose is providing yet ANOTHER metaphor of subsidized worthlessness in U.S. —–God knows there are PLENTY already…

  85. WNBA should be nothing but a notation in a history book. DEI administrators. Incompetent owners, coaches, refs and heathen players that most could not beat a high school boys team.
    Last night's game with Clark was no different. If any other player received the abuse she does, the team would clear the bench to protect and retaliate. Coaches would be fined and ejected for protecting their player. In White's DEI case, she supports the mentally ill lezzies over her golden goose.
    I'm no where near being a coach but having played in HS I understand the game enough to know her subs and play calls sucks. When watching, many times I'll think, WTF was she thinking.

  86. I've been a big CC fan since her Jr. year at Iowa… Because of the sanctioned violence by the Englebert team, refs and other coaches I don't watch the W anymore. Sad that I can't follow her anymore…she is such a great player and so exciting watch. I wish she'd go to Europe and enjoy the rest of her career free from the threat of black/lesbian/cowardly women.

  88. Protect her, that's laughable, she offered her up on a sacrificial platter to the black, lesbian, racists that make up most of the league.

  90. The WNBA is making every attempt they can to force Clark to either quit or injuring related exodus. They refuse to call Fouls committed against her then they call non existent Fouls against her. It is a double edged sword and she is getting both cutting edges at the same time! Clark is in a No Win Situation at this time and I don't see any remedy in the foreseeable future. As a matter of fact I suspect it is going to escalate to more physical attacks on her!

    • I would love to see Clark get up after she gets fouled, and punch the opposing player in the face. The would probably get ejected, but so what? Then, the next time she gets fouled, jump up and punch that player in the face. She may get a suspension–so what. Sometimes a person just has to stand up to bullies.

  92. I have no sympathy for Caitlyn Clark. If she chooses to stay with the WNBA in spite of the violence and injustices aimed specifically at her, that's on her, and I'd equate it with 'battered wife syndrome'. Eventually, she will get injured so badly she can't play any more. And then the WNBA will wither on the vine once again.

  93. WNBA is a blck, lezz bian dominated league. That's it.
    CC is Yt and Straight. There you go.

  94. My view of this is that the WMBA has devolved into another version of Ultimate fighting/Professional wrestling. People are tuning in for the violence.

  95. Where is NOW and the Feminist organizations? The WNBA is normalizing Female Abuse? The message is to the public "you can beat a woman…if you beat the right kind of woman." Comply of face the consequences.

    • Where? They are enforcing their militant Lesbian doctrine established in 1968. Throw in some anti-white racism and here we are.

  100. This commissioner has to be fired for inaction to allow this to continue. Every team owner should get the message. Right your house or else.

  101. I guess at this point either Caitlin OR HER FANS should file federal DISCRIMINATION lawsuits against the thugs and their enablers. Poetic justice would be for Caitlin to leave and go to Europe to play. When player salaries drop like a boulder, they end up taking buses to their next games and the arenas who formerly promoted them decided that they cannot afford to put this trash on display without killing THEIR brand and their reputation, then and only then will the league decide to dump the trash!
    Obviously the NBA has no problem with the racial profiling or the gender attacks on Caitlin since they continue to subsidize this trash. Hopefully, both leagues will go belly up and then the fingers will start pointing within where the real blame lies.

  104. The inquiry by Members of Congress wo t even address the no calls they will address the black and white issue
    When that’s not the issue the issue is the refs
    No one cares about the aftermath
    We only care about the no calls and the manipulation of the game and the scores
    And when a referee doesn’t make the call it effects the game period
    this isn’t about making all the teams equal
    If one team is better then all the rest the referees shouldn’t be manipulating that
    By not calling the fouls
    especially at the end of the game because players are going to foul that’s a fact because they don’t want the team to score 2 points let alone 3 so they foul in hopes of the foul shot missing one shot or even both

  106. Nobody cares about white privilege spewing black lives matter backing Kamala Harris voting Clark.
    She bent the knee and they still beat the hell out of her because she was too dumb to know that nothing she does will ever be enough for them.
    Her coach won't back her or protect her because she's just as lame worrying that if she helps Clark they'll turn on her too and she's right to think so.
    They are all spoiled fragile petty childish hypocrites.

  109. WNBA is 73% black, 33% lesbian.
    Nearly every game, CC is physically assaulted.
    CC is white, straight and Christian with a real male boyfriend.

    There are no coincidences.

    • She could benefit from a little of Cunningham's get in your face attitude. When you never fight back the bully always keeps bullying.

  111. Very few things are worse than a jealous lesbian. Their rage is unimaginable. Seen it numerous times during their domestic disputes.

    And though I feel for Caitin’s plight, she lost me as a fan when she endorsed Kamala Harris.

    —Metro Cop, retired in flyover country—

    • "This should concern every WNBA fan" YUP…. ALL THREE OF THEM!
      btw I now check WNBA statistics ONLY on days Joe posts articles (almost every day)
      Clark is only 16% on 3 pointers spanning last 3 games. 35% overall is not even good either.
      Check out the refs!! Conflict of interest. Fixing Clark's point total either way is worth millions of dollars. WNBA revenue is gambling, which Joe & other reporters don't even count.
      The game has no integrity, & the refs are as poorly paid as the players, wide open to corruption.

      • You fail to list the stats of how much time on the floor Clark is at. Might surprise you.

        People like you only cherry pick the info you want to trash. She played a total of 14 minutes spread out over 4 quarter in her first appearance back after the on court assault.

        • LOL Time on the floor has nothing to do with shooting percentage!
          It says she's taking a lot of shots and not making enough baskets
          In fact I WENT OUT OF MY WAY TO AVOID POSTING GAME TOTALS because of LESS MINUTES only to have YOU accuse me of "cherry picking"
          Last night she only made One out of Eight 3 pointers 13 points tatal
          Yet the coach let her play 26 minutes. second most on the team
          4 for 14 total, She should be 50% to be considered playing well
          She's just not playing well right now & yes those injuries are a factor

          • that’s a different point demonstrating how the professional basketball game (NBA)
            Lacks Integrity.
            Many Many players flop. They all flop on purpose. They are taught to flop You are correct
            Just don’t allege Caitlin Clark is special and the ONLY person taught to flop
            They ALL either learn to flop or they don’t get calls. They call it “working the refs”
            I call it BS.

          • Dude, you are moron! A clueless moron! If you're not grotesquely obese, have a combover, and can't find you're dick it's so small I'm the President!

    • I learned it as a male rugby player in college. There was a female team at that college, and I guess they came to our games, so our coach asked us to come to their games. So help you if you patted a pretty girl on the shoulder who just scored while in sight of one of her fat, crewcut haired butch teammates. They would rage at us and even threaten us. Bizarro world!

    • I did not know that – good beat her down because I don't care. To endorse someone that would not have been running this country for a hot second is a moron.

    • Her quasi-endorsement (by liking Taylor Swift's tweet endorsement) in Nov 2024 caused me to raise an eyebrow but it wasn't until the following month when she conceded her "white privilege" in December 2024 during Time magazine's interview for Athlete of the Year.

      At that point, she completely lost me as a fan. Now every time she's abused I think to myself "How's that white privilege working out for you now?"

      • Agreed, it's one thing to turn the other cheek but to do so repeatedly is foolish. It is truly on her and has been for quite some time. Caitlin Clark is doing what she loves but there comes a point that to preserve what you love you need to fight for it and stop just taking it or one day Caitlin Clark will be permanently disabled or end up with a fatal injury and then her failure to stand up will embolden the wackos.

    • They keep appealing to money.
      ITS FELONY ASSAULTS.
      Sue the players that do it
      Sue the refs and WNBA which are COMPLICIT and INCITE IT.

      • Maybe ICE should come in and deport the idiots attacking her. Worst thing to happen lately was Biden trading a threat to Americans and America for a drug dealer/user.

    • Caitlin endorsed Kamala Harris in self-defense. She would be dead by now if she had endorsed Donald Trump.

    • Caitlin is a christian and I'm disappointed she voted for democrats. Thanks for mentioning it. I had no idea at all. I suppose she won't sue one of her own.

  112. for 30 years the league was a parasite to the NBA losing millions each year. Bad players, bad coaches, bad managers and league admins could do absolutely nothing to salvage it. Then came Clark, a golden goose that brought viewers, contracts, sponsors, ticket sales, undeserved salaries, world recognition..What did they all do…..attempt to kill the goose. A few may actually care about the WNBA in the local markets, or local players, but wherever you go you'll find Clark's following roadies and cheering her on crowds.
    If anyone had a brain there would be pink slips flying in many directions to admin and coaches.

  113. Resurrect the ABL, recruit Caitlin Clark and build the new league around her. Let the WNBA keep the thuggery if that’s the product they’re selling!

  114. Every coach is as guilty as their players as they do nothing to prevent or discourage violence against Clark.

  115. Frightened white liberal woman afraid of lesbian black players. Caitlin should move on and leave them all behind.

  119. A 1 game suspension for a violent on court assault, Adam Silver is a spineless woke POS also, and he only stepped in because Congress stepped in.

    The DoJ's Civil Rights division needs to step in and step in hard on these hate filled racist woke POS, they don't need a basketball, they need a watermelon and a bunch of bananas as pay.

  123. Those are man arms baby!

    I would love to see a good Chinese WNBA player join. And watch the WNBA bow down to her.
    The only men feminists bow down to are Transvestites and Chinese men.

  124. Are the fans growing because of Caitlin and now Sophie or is it the women’s roller derby angle?

  125. They won't stop until they permanently cripple her. Don't understand why Clark continues to allow this abuse to happen to her, but if she doesn't care or speak out about it why should we? Her problem that she chooses not to deal with and that's all there is to it.

  126. They won't stop until they permanently cripple her. Don't understand why Clark continues to allow this abuse to happen to her, but if she doesn't care or speak out about it why should we? Her problem that she chooses not to deal with and that's all there is to it.

  131. Boycott the sponsors until truth and fairness replace racism and favoritism. It’s really shameful that top management is turning a blind eye to obvious and dangerous bullying.

  133. Keep it in the locker room ladies. There you can beat the living stuffing out of each other, then blame it on a slip in the shower, a row on lockers dislodged and fell, or one of their 'personl massage' devices when haywire…

  134. Keep it in the locker room ladies. There you can beat the living stuffing out of each other, then blame it on a slip in the shower, a row on lockers dislodged and fell, or one of their 'personl massage' devices when haywire…

  135. I encourage CC to leave that pathetic league. If she does, all the salary increases, fan attendance, and the perks she gained for the rest of that charity (the WNBA) will hurt the owners badly. They will lose money.

    And as always, we hear nothing from the Fever owner, Herb Simon. Why aren't sports yakkers going after him for allowing his star to be beaten up time after time?

  137. If Caitlin Clark played wearing 'black face', she'd be treated better,. Al Jolson was a singing sensation wearing black face.

  138. There's a great coaching job waiting for her, she could drop the WNBA on its head, and into bankruptcy when she's had enough,

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