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Caitlin Clark has been named to her third All-Star Game in her third season in the WNBA. Unfortunately, as great as Clark has been on the floor when she’s been available, a lot of the discourse around the Indiana Fever superstar has revolved around anything but basketball.
Instead, the never-ending cycle around Clark’s coverage has centered on her emotional outbursts on the court, perceived lack of social justice advocacy, flopping, and people unaffiliated with her using her celebrity to attempt to advance their own political agendas.
Now, respected sports journalist and media personality Bomani Jones is explaining why he doesn’t get in the middle of the discourse.
“We are in— I don’t even want to say year three of the Caitlin Clark experience because we’re really in like year five of it,” Jones said on his podcast, The Right Time with Bomani Jones. “We’re in year three of the WNBA Caitlin Clark experience.
“It didn’t really become a thing to talk about more broadly until that game with Angel Reese, and then it went farther and farther. But I will say this part, it kind of reached its apex once she reached the WNBA. These 3 years, the conversations are the same.
“Except dumber and worse. Nothing has changed. As somebody who’s just kind of not invested in the whole thing, that’s really tough to watch. I kind of wanted to get involved in this, and then I did it for a little bit, and I was like, man, y’all can have this.”
Jones is certainly right about the state of things surrounding Clark, and how tough it can be to watch people try to make things about stuff that has nothing to do with basketball. That’s especially true when Clark is playing as well as she has been. Hopefully, in year four of the Caitlin Clark WNBA, people will start acting normally.
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