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#148 - Should Caitlin Clark Leave the WNBA? · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  Should Kaitlyn Clark leave the WNBA? I'm going to take a look at this.
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  I've been intrigued by the WNBA for never until Kaitlyn Clark entered the league.
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  She was a rock star in college.
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  She came to the WNBA and just lit it up and has got nothing but hate from the
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  league itself. But I want to take a look at this.
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  All right. So there's a growing push for Kaitlyn Clark to leave the WNBA.
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  This is from Yahoo Sports. there's following this
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  was following tuesday night's altercation that happened
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  you could see every if you see a clip on twitter
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  it's always going to be of her getting the hell beat out
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  of her and the refs just like looking the other way whatever okay i don't know
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  if the the refs are in cahoots with just kind of getting her beat the heck up
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  or what what's going on but it seems like they're good with it they're fine
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  with it i mean it's a tough if it's a tough league to an extent you know, I guess.
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  I honestly have never watched a WNBA game in my life.
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  The only thing that draws me to it, but I love seeing the clips of Kaitlyn Clark, is because of her.
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  There's nothing else in the league, and there hasn't been. I can't think of
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  another thing in the league besides her that has ever been really interesting.
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  All right, so Clark, the number one overall pick in the 2024 WNBA draft was
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  involved in a bit of a brawl on Tuesday night during the third quarter of the
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  Indiana Fever versus Connecticut Sunday game.
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  I guess for Connecticut Sun, as you can see, I am not versed in this WNBA terminology.
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  Clark was hit in the eye by J.C. Sheldon, her former Big Ten rival.
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  Clark was then decked to the ground by Connecticut's Marina Mabry.
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  The Fever was leading the game 54-45. At the time of the incident,
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  they went on to win 87-71.
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  This is the latest in the string of physical incidents that have involved Clark.
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  While Clark might not be getting targeted in a dangerous sense,
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  it's clear that the opposing players are being very physical with her.
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  She just returned from a two-week injury.
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  So I thought of last year that she had left the WNBA.
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  I thought that was the thing. She left and she went to Europe or something.
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  And now she's back. I must have missed that they wooed her back to come back into the league.
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  But either way, what else could she do, though? What else could she do?
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  Should she leave the WNBA?
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  Where is she going to go? To Europe? To China? Who else?
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  There's no better place than the good old USA to be doing anything.
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  So why would you go anywhere else?
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  So what's got to happen? Because she is the face of the league.
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  She's the only thing that makes it interesting.
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  But the league doesn't seem to care about her.
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  Should she get an enforcer to come alongside of her?
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  To protect her, to be a little, to be a goon out there?
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  Because it seems every time she's getting beat the heck up, nobody comes to her side on her team.
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  Nobody's like, we need to see Jalen Rose action. And who was that?
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  Who was those guys that just came in, ran on the court and just are fighting
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  because of these, when their guys are getting the heck beat out of them.
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  We need to see that in the WNBA. I don't, maybe not. I'm very turned off from
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  girls fighting, you know, boxing wise.
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  So I think if she did have someone out there just kind of watching her back,
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  I think the WNBA might be able to sit a little bit easier because her leaving
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  the league, if she actually goes, where are the fans going to go?
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  There's nowhere. I mean, she's the only thing that's making the league itself.
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  So this is, says Clark, who was making less than $80,000 in WNBA salary,
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  is earning millions more in endorsements. She was reportedly offered $5 million
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  to play in Ice Cube's Big Three League, though she turned that down.
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  They just need to name the league Kaitlyn Clark.
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  They just need to change the WNBA. Why are we calling it the WNBA anyways? It's not the NBA.
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  It's not the NBA. Just rename the league Kaitlyn Clark's League.
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  Make that the face of it, you know, because I mean, by the time she left somewhere
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  and tries to get something else up and running, I mean, you're only young for
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  so long, you know, so she is, she's going to be, she's going to be in her prime for a while now.
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  But I think the WNBA just needs to just change the league's name.
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  It's, it's her, it's her world. The other girls are just living in it.
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  And it seems like they are just jealous of her every step of the way.
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  I don't know what it is because sometimes it feels like a racial thing,
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  but it's not always a racial thing.
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  You know, I think it's just other girls just want, they're jealous for what she is.
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  And she's not like, she's not like starry or, you know, drama.
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  She seems like so like plain in a lot of ways and just easygoing,
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  not like flamboyant at all.
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  Not like a hothead, not somebody that's just going to be a talker.
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  She doesn't seem like a talker at all. I don't know if I've ever heard her speak.
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  Really. I just, she, she lets her play speak for itself in a lot of ways,
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  but I, it just seems like so many different venues she goes to.
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  She, she's nothing but just hated and beat the heck up. So I think they need to change something.
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  They need to change something. They need to change something because the way
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  it's going, you ain't going to keep her that much longer, but where's she going to go?
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  Change the name of the league to Caitlin Clark. She is the face.
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  She's the only thing that's making it interesting.
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  The other girls just need to kind of recognize who she is. Stop being so jealous.
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  Stop, stop hating so much. Don't be a Caitlin Hayton.
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  All right. All right. We'll leave it at that. If you've enjoyed this video,
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