Caitlin Clark Calls Out ‘Trolls’ amid Abuse of WNBA Gamers: ‘These Aren’t Followers’

Caitlin Clark addressed the abuse that her fellow WNBA gamers have skilled from followers in video games in opposition to the Indiana Fever.

Chatting with reporters Friday, Clark described the folks making any racist and derogatory feedback as “trolls” and nobody within the league ought to be topic to any sort of verbal abuse.

“These aren’t followers,” she added.

Following the Fever’s playoff loss to the Connecticut Solar, Alyssa Thomas told reporters after Recreation 2 on Wednesday that she “by no means skilled the racial feedback from the Indiana Fever fan base” in her 11-year profession that she did throughout that collection.

“I’ve by no means been known as the issues that I have been known as on social media and there isn’t any place for it,” Thomas added.

Fever ahead NaLyssa Smith posted on X that her girlfriend, Solar guard DiJonai Carrington, was receiving dying threats, being adopted and being “known as all sort of s–t” after Carrington inadvertently poked Clark within the eye in Recreation 1.

This is not the primary time that Fever followers have been known as out for making racist and derogatory remarks to an opposing participant.

Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese stated on the debut episode of her podcast that she believes Clark would not stand on something detrimental the followers say, however these folks can get “very disrespectful” to the purpose they’ve stalked her going residence and despatched her dying threats.

Within the wake of Thomas’ feedback, the WNBA issued an announcement condemning any “racist, threatening or derogatory feedback made about gamers, groups and anybody affiliated with the league.”

Clark’s rookie season got here to an finish on Wednesday when the Fever have been swept within the first spherical of the playoffs by the Solar.