Jason Whitlock: Why Caitlin Clark Could Face Hostility in the WNBA

Watch Jason Whitlock of Blaze TV’s Fearless discuss controversial recent comments former WNBA great Sheryl Swoops made about Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark breaking the NCAA’ women’s record for points, which bizarrely included obvious misinformation about Clark’s career.

Swoops, who won three MVPs in the WNBA in a storied career that spanned from 1997-2011, said on Gilbert Arenas’ podcast that Clark’s pursuit of the women’s all-time scoring record wasn’t ‘legitimate’ because Clark had the advantage of having an extra season of college due to Clark using her COVID waiver, and thus playing in more games than the previous all-time scoring leader Kelsey Plum. Swoops said Clark was dominating her opponents because she’s a ‘25-year-old playing against a 20-year-old’, and then claimed that Clark takes ‘40 shots a game.’ The only problem with Swoops’ comments were that they were all untrue. 

Clark is playing in her fourth season at Iowa and has never used her COVID waiver, which was universally granted to all NCAA athletes as an extra year of eligibility that may have been wasted or tainted by the season played during the COVID pandemic in 2021. It’s effectively allowed any college player whose career spanned through 2021 to have five seasons of eligibility instead of the usual four. Clark could potentially use her COVID waiver and play a fifth season at Iowa next season, but her scoring record was broken in under four seasons, and thus should be ‘legitimate’ according to Swoops’ own standards.

Clark just turned 22 in January and is not ‘25’ like Swoops falsely claimed. She broke Plum’s record in 126 games, compared to Plum setting the previous record in 139 games, and despite Swoops saying Clark takes ‘40 shots a game’, Clark is averaging 19.9 field goal attempts during her four years at Iowa. 

Whitlock says Swoops’ baseless criticisms of Clark could be a part of a larger issue that could potentially plague Clark in the WNBA, saying there is going to be a level of jealousy and ‘racism’ from Black players towards a White star like Clark, and added that the ‘woke’ media could eventually turn on a White, ‘heterosexual Catholic’ who will likely become the face of the league the second she steps on the court as a pro. 

Check out the segment above as Whitlock compares Clark’s future journey in the WNBA to Tiger Woods’ on the PGA Tour in the mid-to-late 90’s, saying Clark could face the same discrimination Woods did in a sport dominated by a race opposite to theirs.

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