The WNBA players are speaking out about the league’s lack of leadership and those in charge don’t like it.
Caitlin Clark graduated from Iowa and joined the WNBA last season. As a result the league finally had some exposure. Before that the leagues attendance, viewership and energy was the worst in sports. Finally, the WNBA had something to brag about….. and the WNBA blew it.
Clark, the greatest scorer and point producer when adding in points off of assists, was the best women’s basketball player in NCAA 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 WNBA last year.
The below chart shows how Clark was in a league of her own when adding points scored and points off of assists together during her senior year at Iowa.
Unfortunately, the WNBA didn’t want her or welcome her. Clark suffered greatly in games in numerous ways. The below example is how the players and the refs abused Clark.
In this series, Clark was poked in the eye by the opposing player after grabbing and pulling Clark all game long. Then the opposing player assaulted her and pushed her. Clark tried to get away but another opponent punched Clark in the back and then another player 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 technical 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
The greatest shooter in the history of the game was 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
Clark was injured and missed the All-Star game. Clark had never missed a game since high school until this year in the WNBA.
Clark has already dealt with multiple injuries this season, missing 10 games in total — nine in the regular season and then the Commissioner’s Cup championship. She missed five games with a left quad strain and later sat out five more after injuring her left groin. This is uncharted territory for Clark, who did not miss any playing time for injury reasons at Iowa or during her WNBA rookie year.
While Clark was out earlier this season, the WNBA lost 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.
Clark handles all the challenges with grace. But her games became too difficult to watch because of the horrible players, refs, coaches and league.
Players pummeled the WNBA’s golden goose and they were rarely called for a foul. Clark touches someone and immediately gets called for a foul.
Broadcast team breaks down every foul defenders are allowed to get away with on Caitlin Clark pic.twitter.com/985PVBvwH8
— Clark Report (@CClarkReport) July 13, 2025
This is all on the worst league in world history. This happens all the time. It’s gotten to the point where basketball fans and fans of Caitlin Clark have had enough. It became too much to watch. It was like watching a boxer get pummeled with one hand tied behind his back.
HOW IS CAITLIN CLARK GETTING GRABBED W NO FOUL??? pic.twitter.com/LkhobeEaVV
— LeLakers 2️⃣3️⃣ (@LeLaker) June 25, 2025
The abuse happened every game.
The worst refs in the worst league in sports watch Caitlin Clark get crushed and no foul WTH. @gatewaypundit pic.twitter.com/0QeUGtdtor
— Joe Hoft (@realJoeHoft) August 18, 2024
The league’s front office, the coaches, the refs, the other players and her own teammates have been heartless, jealous and abusive to Clark who was the league’s savior.
Finally, another player stepped up and called out WNBA leadership for the mess the league was in.
In a scathing critique of WNBA leadership, Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier directly called out league Commissioner Cathy Engelbert on multiple fronts Tuesday, describing her handling of leaguewide complaints over officiating as “negligence.”
Speaking at her end-of-season exit interview, Collier read from a prepared statement as she listed her issues with the league office, describing the WNBA as having “the worst leadership in the world.”
“The real threat to our league isn’t money,” Collier said. “It isn’t ratings or even missed calls or even physical play. It’s the lack of accountability from the league office.”
She added, in regard to officiating: “Since I’ve been in the league, you’ve heard the constant concerns about officiating, and it has now reached the levels of inconsistency that plague our sport and undermine the integrity in which it operates. Whether the league cares about the players is one thing, but to also not care about the product we put on the floor is truly self-sabotage.”
Other players stepped up and backed Collier.
Lexie Hull responds to Napheesa’s comments on the leadership:
“I agree with everything she said. We are in a really important time in the league and changes need to be made. Really proud of her for making that statement today”
She handled those questions very well pic.twitter.com/xahZEjB2Lt
— Ashwin (@Sudharsan_ak) September 30, 2025
Loved Caitlyn Clark until she apologized for being white… The girl murdered on the train had BLM stickers in her house… How did that work out?!?…
Being white is not a crime…The WNBA is full of real racists…
Painful to see the abuse Caitlin has to endure…they’re all out to get whitey.
Realistically, does anyone really care about the WNBA? They had a chance when Caitlyn Clark was drafted, but rayciss lesbians didn’t want to really bring the WNBA out of obscurity, they were more interested in putting the ‘white girl’ in her place.
Commissioner Cathy Engelbert could have put an end to the violence and moved the league, but it turns out she was part of the problem, not any part of a solution.
I quit watching even the YouTube highlights…WNBA is dead.
rather watch paint dry….or middle school bb.
Care less about Woke WNBA, its Woke players, especially Woke Caitlin Clark.
Clark was the league’s first real star that could have propelled the league to some level of legitimacy, and they showed the league is not only not ready for prime time, but not even worthy to exist.
LOL! Woke has destroyed the WMBA.
I wanted to get interested enough to watch, but i think there are trannies playing. what, brittney griner isn’t a dude???
Plot twist: No one cares!
That poke to the eye was intentional, ask any league enforcer…
Is Cathy Englebert “Humperdinck” just another weirdo ‘Gender Pretender’!?! It sure looks like it!
If you take away the NBA’s $50 million annual subsidy, the league folds like a cheap suit. That’s how it works. You have to subsidize what isn’t profitable to sustain some sort of leftist social justice “requiring” there needs to be a WNBA.
Six thousand average attendance can’t pay the freight unless the NBA does. This went on for ten years until Clark exploded on the scene last year resulting in EVERY ARENA selling out when Clark showed up…home or away!!!
But jealous black and lesbian players, lousy coaches, incompetent league management and the worst officials on the planet will someday force Clark out. When it happens, hope she sues the league into oblivion!!!
just a bunch of thugs … typical community behavior … on top of being talentless hacks …
In 78 years, I’ve never had a serious interest in major league sports. CC’s story was fascinating, however, and so this year, I tried to get interested in the Fever. WNBA player behavior resembled a circus clown-car act at times, but league management gave basketball (not just the W, but ALL basketball) a black eye. Allegations of rigged games, bribed referees, and disregard for the safety of star players were more than I can take.
Loved Caitlyn Clark until she apologized for being white… The girl murdered on the train had BLM stickers in her house… How did that work out?!?…
Being white is not a crime…The WNBA is full of real racists…
She (he?) appears to be white and that disqualifies he/she to be commissioner of anything
Painful to see the abuse Caitlin has to endure…they’re all out to get whitey.
Realistically, does anyone really care about the WNBA? They had a chance when Caitlyn Clark was drafted, but rayciss lesbians didn’t want to really bring the WNBA out of obscurity, they were more interested in putting the ‘white girl’ in her place.
Commissioner Cathy Engelbert could have put an end to the violence and moved the league, but it turns out she was part of the problem, not any part of a solution.
I quit watching even the YouTube highlights…WNBA is dead.
rather watch paint dry….or middle school bb.
Care less about Woke WNBA, its Woke players, especially Woke Caitlin Clark.
Clark was the league’s first real star that could have propelled the league to some level of legitimacy, and they showed the league is not only not ready for prime time, but not even worthy to exist.
LOL! Woke has destroyed the WMBA.
I wanted to get interested enough to watch, but i think there are trannies playing. what, brittney griner isn’t a dude???
Plot twist: No one cares!
That poke to the eye was intentional, ask any league enforcer…
Is Cathy Englebert “Humperdinck” just another weirdo ‘Gender Pretender’!?! It sure looks like it!
If you take away the NBA’s $50 million annual subsidy, the league folds like a cheap suit. That’s how it works. You have to subsidize what isn’t profitable to sustain some sort of leftist social justice “requiring” there needs to be a WNBA.
Six thousand average attendance can’t pay the freight unless the NBA does. This went on for ten years until Clark exploded on the scene last year resulting in EVERY ARENA selling out when Clark showed up…home or away!!!
But jealous black and lesbian players, lousy coaches, incompetent league management and the worst officials on the planet will someday force Clark out. When it happens, hope she sues the league into oblivion!!!
just a bunch of thugs … typical community behavior … on top of being talentless hacks …
In 78 years, I’ve never had a serious interest in major league sports. CC’s story was fascinating, however, and so this year, I tried to get interested in the Fever. WNBA player behavior resembled a circus clown-car act at times, but league management gave basketball (not just the W, but ALL basketball) a black eye. Allegations of rigged games, bribed referees, and disregard for the safety of star players were more than I can take.
Please please, please, can we have more women in power… so much good comes from it, especially women ruling women.
She (he?) appears to be white and that disqualifies he/she to be commissioner of anything
Are her parent’s freemasons, too? Like Lindsay Whalens?
Please please, please, can we have more women in power… so much good comes from it, especially women ruling women.
Are her parent’s freemasons, too? Like Lindsay Whalens?