WNBA Master Natasha Cloud was aiming for the sport’s new fans who were critical of mistakes made against Caitlin Clark last season.

During an interview about “Pivot Podcast” with Ryan Clark, Cloud weighed on the debate that shook WNBA last year when several illegal hits against Clark got the outrage from many of her fans.

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“It’s just part of the game. There was no targeting, there was nothing. The tale that was spun to, ‘Oh, the veterinarians hate rookies. Rookies hate the veterinarians. The veterinarians go for certain players,’ It’s all bulls —. If I just want to be Frank, it’s all bull-what it is is racism, ‘said Cloud.

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Clark took a notorious illegal hip check from Chicago Sky Forward Chennedy Carter on June 1st. Fellow Sky Player and Clark’s archive, Angel Reese, hit Clark in the head with her arm while trying to block a passport during a game that was later upgraded to a heavenly player.

In Clark’s first playoffs against Connecticut Sun on September 22, Sun Player Dijonai Carrington Clark gave a black eye by piercing her with the fingernails.

Indiana Fever Guard Caitlin Clark responds to an error in the first quarter of match 1 in the first round of 2024 WNBA playing game in Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., September 22, 2024. (Mark Smith/Imag- Pictures)

“It gets blown in, ‘Oh, they follow after Caitlin Clark.’ But no, we’re just playing one of the best players in this league, like any other best player or franchise player has been played, ”Cloud said.

Earlier in the interview, the cloud dealt with the increase in fans of WNBA and suggested that their interest were not rooted in fandom.

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“The madness that came with the new fandom was rooted in something other than fandom, and I think it was very clear everywhere,” Cloud said. “In many ways it has not been about basketball.”

Cloud is not the first WNBA player or former player to suggest that some of Clark’s supporters are racist.

Caitlin Clark (22) from Indiana Fever and Angel Reese (5) from Chicago Sky during a game of June 1, 2024 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Jeff Haynes/NBAE via Getty Images)

Reese said in the first episode of her podcast “There is a lot of racism when it comes to it” in terms of the motivation for Clark’s fans. Wnba Legend SUE BIRD SURCHED OUT On this group in her podcast in November and claims that some of them are not even fans of Clark, but just “function” as fans, while “pushing racist agendas and pushing hatred.”

However, not all prominent women’s basketball players are just as dismissive of the controversial fans Clark has brought to the sport.

USC Women’s Basketball Star Juju Watkins, who has a chance to break Clark’s NCAA scoring record, former Pakinomist told Digital that she offers all fans that Clark has brought to the sport and hopes they might even be rooted for Watkins.

USC Women’s Basketball player Juju Watkins before a recent game on Cal St. Long Beach in Long Beach, California, December 21, 2023. (Wally Scale/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

“So many new fans in the sport may sometimes be, maybe not necessarily challenging, but can just give you a headache a little. Not many people know what they are talking about sometimes. But it’s nice for the sport. The fact that people see is enough in themselves,” Watkins said.

“We want it to be positive, but it won’t always be that way. So long as we continue to raise the numbers and viewership goes up, I think that’s all we can ask for.”

When asked if she wants the sport’s controversial new fans to cheer for her, Watkins replied, “Oh yes. I love supporters and I love haters too.

“I think it’s just part of the game. There are so many pages of it. So it’s the nature of the game and there will always be negative and positive aspects of it.”