The polarizing Bird-Magic-like rivalry between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese has carried over into the WNBA.
However, this chapter has less to do with what either did on the hardwood over the weekend. Instead, it highlights how one played before a national audience, while the other, who is just as polarizing and has as much reason to be broadcast nationally, did not.The Chicago Sky vs. Minnesota Lynx preseason game was not streamed online by the WNBA. ... unlike what the league did with the Caitlin Clark debut for the Indiana Fever, with that Friday night debut in Dallas a cause celebre.
Many are ripping the WNBA for this imbalanced decision. Clark’s game was televised and coverage easy to access. Reese’s game, not so much. Like Ervin “Magic” Johnson’s historic rivalry versus Larry “Legend” Bird, race has played a role in the nature of this rivalry and the way fans on each side have dug in. Some feel racism powered the move to highlight Clark —“The WNBA is wild embarrassing. To not have Angel Reese and Kamila Cordossa games on the league pass is insane.
“The fact that the only WNBA game televised was the Indiana Fever game is a slap in the face to every woman in the league, but what it really shows is the racism in all of this,”Clark, who was drafted No. 1 by the Indiana Fever on April 15 has become the face of the WNBA, and for good reason after Clark was a two-time Sullivan Award winner given to the country’s most outstanding athlete in college or Olympics.
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