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Caitlin Clarkâs toxic cultists are ruining things for the WNBAâs longtime fans
If thereâs been a downside to the WNBAâs influx of new fans, itâs the phenomenon best described as Caitlin Clark derangement syndrome. And it needs to stop
Aliyah Boston was looking forward to her second professional season.
The 2023 WNBA Rookie of the Year was coming off a successful debut as a television analyst for ESPN at the NCAA Womenâs Final Four in April, one made even sweeter by seeing her beloved alma mater, South Carolina, win the national championship after an undefeated season. The delightful approbation given to Boston from her college and national team head coach Dawn Staley showed how beloved both are within basketball. And after witnessing the Gamecocks cut down the nets by getting revenge on Caitlin Clarkâs Iowa â the team who had ended her collegiate career a year before â Boston knew sheâd soon be playing alongside Clark, with her WNBA team, the Indiana Fever, set to take the 22-year-old with the No 1 overall pick in the upcoming draft.
Fast forward to now. Clark and Boston are indeed teammates but the Fever started their season with five straight losses, before Fridayâs narrow win over the Los Angeles Sparks raised the teamâs spirits a little. But an even more important, unfortunate storyline has emerged around the team. ESPNâs Holly Rowe revealed, before the Feverâs second regular season game against the Connecticut Sun, that Boston said she has deleted X from her phone and that TikTok is the only social media platform she now feels safe on. And the reason is the disturbing, toxic backlash she and other WNBA players have received from Clarkâs wild fans.
Before we start, itâs important to note that this is not Clarkâs fault â and she has not done anything to encourage the abuse of her fellow players. There is much to celebrate about Clarkâs nascent superstardom and arrival in the worldâs best womenâs basketball league. Her historic impact on the college game, which led to the highest TV ratings the NCAA womenâs Tournament has ever had, appears to be carrying over to the WNBA. Attendance and TV audience numbers for Clarkâs preseason and regular-season debuts with the Fever reached zeniths for the 28-year-old league. Although its players had long fought for charter flights in their collective bargaining agreement talks, Clark being at the center of the Wâs newfound popularity has undeniably help usher in that long-awaited change. Hell, Clarkâs shoe deal with Nike may have led to the best player in league, AâJa Wilson, finally getting her own signature shoe.
So, Clark has been a good thing for the league and womenâs basketball as a whole. Some of her hardcore fans? Not so much.
Some of the tension originated from the matchup between Clark and Angel Reese in the 2023 NCAA title game. Reeseâs boisterous personality was attacked by Clark fans at the same time as they praised their own heroineâs cockiness as âcompetitivenessâ.
And a subset of Clarkâs fervent fans have become fully unbearable.
Anywhere one turns on social media, Clark fans are blaming the Feverâs early-season struggles â which had been expected â on everyone but her. Disparaging comments about Bostonâs weight and game, the rest of Clarkâs Fever teammates and calls for head coach Christie Sides to get fired are constant. Yet those same Clark fans donât demand accountability from the point guard when it comes to her setting a WNBA debut-record 10 turnovers, her below average defensive play and her zest for perimeter shooting, something she had free rein to do at Iowa but needs to scale back until she improves her consistency at the WNBA level. Clarkâs occasional volatile temper, which earned her a rare technical foul last Monday night, is glossed over by her rabid supporters who treat her as an infallible celebrity instead of a still-developing professional player.
Added to this, many Clark fans have never been WNBA fans, and show a significant level of ignorance by not respecting the leagueâs quarter-century history of producing great athletes. The arrogance of pretending that Clark is the sole reason for any interest in the WNBA, or the high level of play it has long possessed, or believing that her fellow professionals are envious of her, are traits her ardent supporters must rid themselves of. That will not be an easy task though, thanks to NBA legends LeBron James and Charles Barkley only enabling the fansâ childish antics.
On the latest episode of his Mind The Game podcast with JJ Redick, James said that Clark âis the reason why a lot of great things are going to happen in the WNBAâ. The Lakers forward even Clarkâs early-season struggles to his son Bronnyâs NBA draft process, claiming that both are getting âa lot of hatred and animosityâ.
Barkleyâs take was even more dreadful, as the Inside the NBA luminary claimed that her WNBA counterparts were being âpettyâ to Clark.
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