Caitlin Clark under attack for not being a black lesbian?

Iowa Hawkeyes superstar Caitlin Clark is the hottest name in women’s basketball right now and for good reason. She’s the NCAA's all-time leading women's scorer, she broke the NCAA record for most points scored in a tournament, and she’s considered the first-ever Division 1 player to reach 3,300+ points, 900+ assists, and 800+ rebounds in a career.

Clark’s extraordinary talent has caused a bit of frenzy in the domain of women’s basketball. Because of her, ticket prices have skyrocketed, lines of eager fans swarm for her autograph, and more people than ever before are flocking to watch women’s basketball in person and on television.

Popular news outlets are calling this “the Caitlin Clark effect.”

But as always, such wild popularity comes with a price. What is an inevitable result of unparalleled success?

Haters. And Clark certainly has plenty.

One of them is none other than three-time WNBA MVP Sheryl Swoopes, who was the first woman to be signed in the WNBA and who set the NCAA record in 1993 for the most points scored in a tournament — until Clark broke it in 2023.

Jason Whitlock plays a clip of Swoopes discussing Clark’s success or, in her opinion, the lack thereof.

“If you're going to break a record, to me, if it's legitimate, you have to break that record in the same amount of time that [the former record-holder] set it,” Swoopes said. “So if Kelsey Plum set that record in four years, Caitlin should have broken that record in four years.”

“But because there was a COVID year … she’s already had an extra year to break that record, so is it truly a broken record? ... I don’t think so,” Swoopes continued, suggesting that Clark is undeserving of her accolades. “But that will go in the record books as Caitlin Clark is the all-time whatever … but you have a 25-year-old playing against a 20-year-old.”

Unfortunately, Swoopes is dead wrong. Caitlin Clark just turned 22 on January 22, 2024.

She’s also dead wrong when it comes to the athlete’s shots per game. Swoopes argued that Clark “takes about 40 shots a game,” when stats prove that she’s taken “19.7 shots per game on average throughout her career.”

“That’s a lot of hate [and] a lot of bad information,” says Whitlock, who thinks Clark’s haters are guilty of not only jealousy but also of racism and heterophobia, considering Clark is a straight Caucasian.

“She's going to face a level of racism from black players, and she's going to face a level of hostility from lesbian players because she's not on team LGBTQ. She's a Catholic [and] she's got some boyfriend,” which means “she's going to walk into an extremely hostile environment,” he explains.

Steve Kim agrees, adding that Clark will likely receive the most hate from her future teammates once she enters the WNBA.

“When she gets into the WNBA, games that have maybe 2,000-3,000 will suddenly have 10,000 people” – many of whom will be wearing “Caitlin Clark paraphernalia” – and after the game, people will “race right past all these teammates that have been in the league for seven, eight years, who may have had more accomplished careers, to get [Clark’s] autograph,” Steve predicts.

“The endorsement deals are going to be with Caitlin Clark; all the appearances you have to make for the team in the league [will be for] Caitlin Clark. … The locker-room politics and the derision she is going to face over time is going to be really interesting,” he continues, adding that Clark will likely be painted as "the Great White Hope, the savior of the WNBA.”

Whitlocks agrees, but he also thinks alongside opponents and teammates, “the media is going to participate in the diminishment of Caitlin Clark,” as that’s “the woke thing to do.”

To hear the full conversation, watch the clip below.

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