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Fever coach Stephanie White dodges question on GOP letter about Caitlin Clarks treatment in WNBA Coach Stephanie White deflected questions about a congressional letter on Caitlin Clark's safety, saying the Indiana Fever focus on what they control.
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"I understand that, I just mean as a coach when you hear that one of your players is being mentioned in a letter from members of Congress to the commissioner of the league, how do you handle that? " I pressed."Again, that's not something we can control," White said, sidestepping the question a second time before echoing some of the language from the team's statement.
"We're not affiliated with those groups.
We try to keep the main thing the main thing and focus on the things we can control." The Fever released a statement on Wednesday that said,"Our organization nor Caitlin has had any interaction with anyone in this congressional group and we were unaware of their letter.
" The statement continued:"We have been clear in our public comments and in our ongoing dialogue with the League about the priority of player safety.Our players and our fans know where we stand on those issues, and we will continue to stick up for our team and a standard of excellence across the league." In other words, the Fever and White are willing to broadly discuss"player safety" but neither directly addressed whether race has anything to do with how Clark specifically is treated.
Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark tries to defend herself after Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas drove her fist into the Fever guard's throat.and it behooves everyone involved to protect her at all costs.However, it seems that many of the players in the WNBA might not have gotten that memo.
,"Clark has been hip-checked, poked in the eye, and struck in the throat during games.
These incidents go far beyond routine physical play, yet the WNBA and its officiating have too often failed to address these unacceptable incidents and hold players accountable."The Fever ruled Clark out for Thursday night's game against Phoenix despite the guard playing 16 minutes on Wednesday against theWhite did not address whether the decision to sit Clark had anything to do with Thursday's opponent, the Mercury.
She did say prior to Wednesday's gameNo foul was called on the play in real time, but the WNBA announced the following day that Thomas had received a Flagrant Foul 2 penalty The WNBA issued a Flagrant 2 against Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas for driving her fist into the throat of Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark.Many fans were eagerly anticipating a rematch between the two teams, since their June 22 meeting also spawned the nowMaybe the Fever are taking player safety seriously after all and not subjecting her to the team that, according to White, delivered"two cheap shots" to Clark.
Of course, it would be better if teams stopped taking cheap shots at Clark altogether.
Baby steps, though.