Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever are on a 6-1 run, with Clark seemingly running away with the Rookie of the Year award. Colin Cowherd and Nick Wright ask if the WNBA is doing enough to support Clark's rising stardom. Former WNBA superstar Sue Bird criticized a portion of the new fan base Caitlin Clark has brought to the league this year, during an episode of her podcast "A Touch More with Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe" on Wednesday.
Bird went so far as to suggest that a large number of individuals that are now following the WNBA and the Indiana Fever because of Clark should not even be considered fans of the team or even Clark herself because of the agenda that she claims they are pushing. "It's not the Fever fans, it's not Caitlin fans, that is a large group of people..
. we're talking about the faction of that group that is pushing racist agendas, and is pushing hate and creating divisiveness online acting as fans, acting as Fever fans, acting as Caitlin fans. Now whether or not they like basketball, I don't know.
But that's the group of people we're talking about. Not all Fever fans, not all new fans, just the ones that are out there pushing this s---," Bird said . Clark herself spoke out against certain segments of the WNBA fanbase after the Fever's season ended in a first-round playoff sweep to the Connecticut Sun last week during the Fever's exit interview on Thursday.
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