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@jasonwhitlock What gives you the right to attack her personally? From all I heard she's very likable, approachable has wit, humor, is very charitable and so on. When other players witness the personal attacks they feed off it. And you just feed into the viscous cycle of abuse. Shame on you.

This would make sense if she hadn't exhibited the exact same behavior at Iowa, her rookie year, her second year, and now her third year. Remember when she flopped to the ground in college when kids rushed the court? I called that out in real time. The belligerent behavior during the NCAA Tourney and her dad screamed at her from the stands. I called that out. Her behavior has shown no improvement. Informed people in Iowa say it's been going on since high school and junior high. You can justify it all you want, same as Karmelo's parents. But all of these women have a story to tell about dealing with unfair treatment. You think it's easy being a 6-foot-3 woman in high school? You think it's easy being a 6-foot-3 masculine woman in high school or a tall, masculine girl in junior high? I don't like Angel Reese. But, so far this year, she's shown more maturity growth than Caitlin Clark. It's a fact. Caitlin is not a leader. She's spoiled. Fun to watch drain threes and pass the ball. But her inability to control her emotions creates problems.

@jasonwhitlock Fraud. There is absolutely no excuse for you to approach Covering Caitlin from this angle. It serves no purpose other then to point out her shortcomings in an environment that seeks to exploit them.

@calvinfroedge Couldn't agree more. Despicable.

I'm just going to say that the corruption at all levels of society right now is incredible and historic

@SWVirgo432 Good Article. Although it's not "has been" it's rather "always has been".

The Entire Human Species Has Been Turned Into A Profit-Generating Machine – Caitlin Johnstone caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/06/12/the…

@stevef1pa @CraigCartonShow "any of those wnba players would get cover defensensively half as much as CC they would crash out." Absolutely 💯

@CraigCartonShow Hey craig How about aja mvp crashing out on the refs How about skylar diggins Angel reese You dont talk about them craig. If any of those wnba players would get cover defensensively half as much as CC they would crash out. If she would get the calls that aja or as much as stewie

CAITLIN CLARK HAS BECOME THE MOST UNLIKEABLE PLAYER IN ALL OF BASKETBALL! "I recognize that Caitlin Clark is a lot of people's hero, but Caitlin Clark is also a villain! The most unlikeable player in basketball! All she does is whine to the refs and complain!" — Tyrone Johnson @TyJohnsonNews #WNBA #CaitlinClark #Basketball

@pierredisecto @CraigCartonShow @jasonwhitlock Yep!!

@CraigCartonShow @jasonwhitlock we see your black asses clear as day! White girl gotta be polite girl. Get fucked up get hammered held and slammed and just shut up and take it! Take a knife to the chest if you must but obey!!! Fuck you! She's getting fouled and she should say so.

@CraigCartonShow Another Fraud. List keeps growing.

@UScrimeReview @Exit_111_ Lol...

@UScrimeReview "stupid SavE amERicA aCt. HUGE support everywhere. But it can't get passed? " Right here is all you need to know. The people just don't matter anymore.

@SportsPatriotUS The problem with some of these content creators is they feel they have the right to protect and defend, and we don't have the right to critique and criticize . Doesn't work that way Adrienne. They just expose themselves for being frauds.

This is another example of the narrative being twisted. Nobody is trying to “control” the coach. We are treating the WNBA like a grown-up professional league and asking grown-up basketball questions. Why are rotations killing rhythm? Why are certain substitutions being made? Why are obvious lineup issues ignored? Why is questioning coaching suddenly treated like some kind of moral failure? It is disappointing to see analysts turn the conversation this way when the basketball facts get uncomfortable. I’ll say this as loudly as I can: Do not let anyone tell you it is wrong to question coaching, strategy, rotations, officiating, or any other part of the game. That is what real sports fans do. Basketball knowledge does not belong exclusively to a few media members, former players, or analysts who turn their comments off because they are afraid someone else might know the game too. I have interacted with brilliant basketball minds on this app. Former coaches. Former players. Writers. Parents who spent years in gyms learning the game while watching their kids rise through the system. And many of them are tired. Tired of being told they are “new fans.” Tired of being told they do not understand basketball. Tired of being dismissed instead of engaged. Tired of being silenced for asking questions others refuse to ask. Disagreement is part of the game. Debate is part of the game. Breaking down strategy is part of the game. That is how the sport grows. So no, we are not trying to control the coach. We are asking valid basketball questions. And if you want to be a serious voice in this women’s basketball movement, then turn your comments on and have the conversation. Because the days of telling fans to sit down, shut up, and accept whatever they are handed are over.

@robertpinkeye @jasonwhitlock @dandakich Lol...

@jasonwhitlock @dandakich Maybe she tired of cleaning up Kelsey Mitchell's messes. Have you thought about that, Mr. Fat In The Hat?

Caitlin Clark was a really hard watch yesterday. She’s untouched here, throws a tantrum, draws a tech. Her body language all game awful. Foul-baiting as much as SGA. Hard watch. @dandakich

@jasonwhitlock @dandakich Just another sell out Fraud. Unbelievable!

@cdssportspod @jasonwhitlock @dandakich I know, what a shame. He has complied. Just another Fraud! Very Disgusting and Disappointing. Jason, Jason, Jason... You broke my heart.

@jasonwhitlock @dandakich You should delete this. It's embarrassing and takes any credibility you had to zero

@SportsPatriotUS "And shame on anyone in sports media who thinks their job is to protect the league from the audience instead of helping the audience understand the truth." Bingo! Food Post.

You are going to find out real quick who is really in this for clicks. Because something has changed. The WNBA finally got what it said it wanted for years: new eyes, bigger audiences, louder conversations, national attention, mainstream debate, and fans who care enough to argue about the product. But with that attention came something the league and much of its media ecosystem were clearly not prepared for. Scrutiny. Real scrutiny. Not blind applause. Not polite support. Not “just be grateful the league exists.” Actual sports scrutiny. Fans are asking questions about coaching. They are asking questions about management. They are asking questions about marketing, officiating, injury transparency, roster construction, media access, player treatment, and whether the league is truly prepared for the growth it claims to want. And somehow, that has become the problem. Not the dysfunction. Not the inconsistency. Not the officiating. Not the coaching decisions. Not the strange media defensiveness. The problem, we are told, is the fans who noticed. That is where this entire conversation has gone sideways. In every mainstream sport in America, fans question everything. They question play calls. They question rotations. They question general managers. They question owners. They question injury reports. They question officiating. They question media narratives. They question whether coaches are qualified for the moment. That is normal. That is not toxic. That is sports. But in the WNBA, too many fans have been told that asking the same kinds of questions means they are hurting the league. They are told they are too new, too loud, too emotional, too agenda-driven, too uninformed, or too unwilling to understand “how the WNBA works.” Well, maybe that is exactly the problem. Maybe too many people have accepted “how the WNBA works” for so long that they forgot fans are allowed to ask whether it actually works well. The new audience did not create the dysfunction. The new audience exposed it. And that exposure has made a lot of people uncomfortable. Howard Megdal recently described the Caitlin Clark/Fever discourse as a “reality distortion field,” writing that “the narrative around the team will take on its own momentum” and that “every unasked question” drives engagement across social media. That framing is exactly why fans are frustrated. It treats scrutiny as distortion before it ever deals with the substance of what fans are questioning. Fans are not inventing questions out of thin air. They are reacting to what they are watching: coaching decisions, staff résumés, offensive structure, injury transparency, officiating, media access, and organizational dysfunction. That is not a reality distortion field. That is an audience paying attention. And when fans look for answers, too often the response is not explanation. It is dismissal. Christine Brennan recently asked Stephanie White what she would say to frustrated fans. White responded, “I don’t know that I really have an answer for the fans,” and added that the Fever are “not trying to appease the masses.” That may sound reasonable inside a locker room. But outside of it, it reveals the disconnect. Fans are not asking to run the team. They are asking normal sports questions about the product they are paying to watch. They are not asking to be appeased. They are asking to be respected. Over the past few weeks, we have watched legitimate basketball questions get treated like acts of rebellion. Fans have questioned coaching experience and were told they were being unfair. Fans questioned offensive structure and were told they did not understand the game. Fans questioned substitutions and were told to stop overreacting. Fans questioned management and were told they were being negative. Fans questioned officiating and were told to move on. Then, when fans kept asking, some were accused of chasing clicks. That is rich. Because now we are starting to see who really wants the scrutiny to stop. I have slowly watched media voices and internet personalities begin to fall in line with the same tired message: Fans are getting sidetracked. Fans are focusing on things outside the game. Fans are not helping the league. New accounts are trying to expose the WNBA and the Fever for engagement. Everyone needs to get back in line, support the team, support the league, and let the “real” media explain what matters. No thanks. That era is over. Even some voices I have respected in the WNBA space are starting to sound exhausted by the scrutiny. Rachel DeMita with Courtside Club recently said, “The discourse has gotten to the point of obsession,” while discussing how fans have analyzed the Caitlin Clark/Fever situation. I understand the concern. Not every possession is a conspiracy. Not every sideline glance is a scandal. Not every play needs to become a murder mystery. But that cannot become a blanket excuse to dismiss legitimate scrutiny. There is a difference between inventing conspiracies and asking serious sports questions. There is a difference between rage and analysis. There is a difference between obsession and attention. And there is a difference between fans trying to destroy the league and fans trying to understand why the league looks so resistant to its own growth. There has been an awakening among fans, and it did not happen because people suddenly decided to be negative. It happened because basketball enthusiasts reached a breaking point. They watched. They studied. They debated. They asked questions. And instead of being welcomed into the conversation, they were mocked for daring to have one. New to the WNBA does not mean new to basketball. A lot of us have played the game. Coached the game. Raised athletes in the game. Lived through recruiting. Sat in gyms for decades. Watched elite development up close. Studied offenses, defenses, spacing, timing, player development, and coaching decisions long before this league became a national conversation. So when we ask questions, it is not because we hate the WNBA. It is because we care enough to watch closely. And lately, there has been a lot to question. We have seen signs of organizational dysfunction. We have seen coaching résumés that deserve serious examination. We have seen questionable offensive structure. We have seen defensive confusion. We have seen sideline tension. We have seen strange injury-reporting questions. We have seen officiating that often looks grossly inconsistent. We have seen media members become more protective of the league than curious about the truth. We have seen longtime reporters face consequences after asking basic questions and reporting what fans were already discussing. And all of this has happened while many fans are trying to decide whether this league is worth continuing to support. That is the part some people are missing. Fans are not guaranteed. Attention is not guaranteed. Support is not guaranteed. If people feel like they are being lied to, talked down to, dismissed, or manipulated, they will eventually leave. That is not a threat. That is how consumers work. So before anyone accuses fans of chasing clicks, maybe we should ask a better question. Who benefits from telling fans to stop asking questions? Who benefits from pushing everything back into a safe little basketball-only box? Who benefits from pretending the dysfunction is not there? Who benefits when fans are shamed for shining a light? Who benefits when media members tell the audience to trust the people with access instead of trusting their own eyes? Maybe the real click-chasing is not coming from the fans asking uncomfortable questions. Maybe it is coming from the people trying to keep their access. Maybe it is coming from the people trying to stay in the good graces of the league, the teams, the coaches, and the players. Maybe it is coming from the voices who want to appear brave while never asking anything that might cost them a credential. That is why this moment matters. This is bigger than one play, one coach, one player, or one fan base. Take the final play everyone has been arguing about. Was it designed for Caitlin? Was Kelsey the first option? Were there multiple options? Did Sophie Cunningham read through the play and make the best decision? Did she skip a safer option and trust the best shot-maker on the floor? Those are fun questions. Those are basketball questions. Those are exactly the kinds of questions fans should be asking. And the best part is that different people can see the same play differently. One person sees option one breaking down. Another sees Lexie Hull open in the corner. Another sees Aliyah Boston sealed inside. Another sees Sophie making a gutsy read. Another sees Caitlin Clark’s gravity bending the entire possession. That is not bad for the league. That is good for the league. That is what real sports conversation looks like. Fans debating a sideline out-of-bounds play in June should be a dream for a league that has spent years begging people to care. Instead, too often, the response from the WNBA ecosystem feels like annoyance that the wrong people are caring in the wrong way. That is a mistake. You do not grow a league by gatekeeping curiosity. You do not build a mainstream sports product by scolding people for treating it like one. You do not ask fans to buy tickets, watch games, share clips, drive ratings, and grow the product... then turn around and tell them to shut up when they ask why the product looks dysfunctional. That is not how this works anymore. The fans are not going away. We are going to ask questions. We are going to scrutinize coaching. We are going to examine management. We are going to question officiating. We are going to discuss marketing. We are going to compare narratives to reality. We are going to talk about what we see. And when we are wrong, we will learn from other basketball people who see it differently. That is part of the fun. That is part of the growth. That is part of being a serious sports fan. But we are not going to be quiet simply because our questions make the wrong people uncomfortable. The WNBA wanted mainstream attention. It has it now. This is what comes with it. More eyes. More voices. More opinions. More scrutiny. More accountability. That is not a crisis. That is the price of mattering. So shame on anyone telling fans to stop asking questions. Shame on anyone pretending scrutiny is the same thing as hate. Shame on anyone using “new fan” as an insult while benefiting from the attention those new fans bring. And shame on anyone in sports media who thinks their job is to protect the league from the audience instead of helping the audience understand the truth. Because the fans are not the problem. The questions are not the problem. The scrutiny is not the problem. The problem is that for the first time in a long time, a whole lot of people are watching closely enough to notice.

@UScrimeReview Ouch! Brutal Truth!

@SWVirgo432 @DrReality5 Lol.. Your right. They've been lying dormant in missile silos for 75 years. Just sitting there waiting to be launched. Yeah, Ok.

@DrReality5 First, nukes do not exist as described and are used as fear porn to control us. Second, nobody should participate in the fraudulent scam of voting, thinking that it will change anything. It won't.

The word is that Trump is so frustrated with his inability to make Iran do as he wants, that he has floated the idea with his staff of using nukes as a way to bring the matter to a resolution. This is how a weak, stupid man reacts when he realizes the world sees he is weak and stupid. This is why the American people should never vote a weak, stupid person into the office where he can single-handedly decide to use nukes.

Question. Why do they continue to allow us to own firearms? Answer. The Government is not afraid of us being armed, technologies exist to essentially neuter us. The armed population is allowed to own weapons in the hope we use them on each other. The job got easier.

Why do vaxxed/injected people light up like Christmas trees under EMF? Good Question.

@UScrimeReview All you can do is "prepare accordingly", stay Alert and stay informed. And most of all hope for the best. These people you speak of are frauds.

@DarjrJimmy70993 @SportsPatriotUS Exactly.

@SportsPatriotUS You have the issue backwards. CC has all the power, not the Fever. Those that understand basketball know that SW refuses to run an offense that allows CC to excel and the team to win. Beyond that is the economic impact; fans want fun and exciting basketball. That is CC.

If the Fever traded Caitlin Clark, it would not just be a basketball mistake. It would be an economics case study in organizational stupidity. I think the Fever might just do it. 🤯