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Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark wants everybody to move on from the foul Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas committed on her last month.
Thomas served a one-game suspension for the foul but also received death threats and was called racial slurs after the incident. Clark denounced the hate that Thomas received earlier this month. Now, Clark has spoken out again about the incident in an appearance on ESPN's "SportsCenter" on Friday.
"It seems like there's always a moment like that in every season that I've played so far," Clark said*.* "And I think, for myself, I just try to navigate it the best I can.
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"It gets exhausting. It gets frustrating, because I think especially — that's a perfect example of, yeah, it was a hard foul, and it should've been dealt with in the moment, and it should've decided what it was then and reviewed it. Great. We move on."
Clark Wants Reporters to Focus On Basketball
Clark also said that reporters often spark drama and controversy instead of focusing on the sport of basketball.
"I feel like media, and journalism, have a responsibility to tell the stories, and a lot of the time you guys are the ones controlling the narratives about what people read, and what people talk about, and a lot of that is sometimes so far out of touch with what is reality," Clark said.
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"We see it happen in the NBA all the time," Clark added, referring to Thomas' hard foul. "It's not anything more than that. It's basketball. When I walk out of the locker room, I shouldn't be— not fearful of what the conversation is gonna be, but it's emotionally exhausting. It's draining. It makes your shoulders tense, because people don't want to talk about the basketball. They just want to stir it up and make it something else."
The WNBA and WNBPA reportedly met earlier this week to discuss the recent issues with players receiving hateful and racist messages.
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