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Angel Reese-Caitlin Clark-Rivalization has closed another chapter after WNBA found that claims of hateful speech against Reese by Indiana Fever fans were “not substantiated.”
The two young phenomena have been tied on the hip since they faced in the 2023 National Championship Game, where Reese’s LSU Tigers defeated Clarks Iowa Hawkeyes, and in the final moments hit Reese Clark with a “You Can’t See Me” Taunt.
It was a step that Clark took in good fun and said that Reese should not have been “criticized” at all and point to the nature of competitiveness.
But after a obvious mistake from Clark against Reese on Saturday, all the prior speech from each athlete about a lack of a rivalry seemed to falter.
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Indiana Fever Guard Caitlin Clark and Chicago Sky Forward Angel Reese (Trevor Ruszkowski-Published Pictures)
However, the former ESPN host Jemele Hill said fans look too deep into Reese and Clark, even if they actually “hate each other.”
“This is ultimately a conversation about cultural competence. Angel Reese’s very existence rubs a lot of people in the wrong way. No one knows for sure how she feels about Caitlin Clark, but what we know from Angel Reese’s own public comments is that she feels a way that she is not given more credit for how she has added to the popularity of women’s basketball in this moment, A SEG. “Spolotik.”
Hill also said that black athletes are more often “portrayed negatively by the media” than white athletes.
“If black athletes are safe, they are considered cocky and arrogant. If they speak their minds, they are considered riots or unkind – the same tropes, different day,” Hill added.
But Hill said that Reese-Clark “rivalry” should be treated like any other sports rivalization.
Indiana Fever Guard Caitlin Clark, Left, violations Chicago Sky Forward Angel Reese. (Trevor Ruszkowski-Published Pictures)
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“In sports we love drama. We love the idea of athletes who have to go through something” for some reason when it comes to Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark, we simply refuse to see their competitiveness through the same lens. Maybe they hate each other, maybe they don’t. But I want us to study to a point where they like each other or not is completely irrelevant. “
“Angel Reese is not the villain in the history of Caitlin Clark, no more than Caitlin Clark is the savior in her. Each interaction between them is not a thinking. If there are harsh violations, rough language and things get spicy, then be. If you have no problem when male athletes compete hard against each other or expose their petity, we all do and apply the same energy, It’s if they want to be tough. ”
Indiana Fever Guard Caitlin Clark (Trevor Ruszkowski-Published Pictures)
Reese once claimed that increased viewership in women’s basketball was “because of me, also” and “not just a person.” She also recently relocated a Tiktok who claimed she was “insecure” while playing in Indiana, and she once said Fever and Iowa fans had been racist to her.
Clark and Reese were teammates in the WNBA All-Star game last year.
