The weather is frightful and so much else is going on but today I had to write this. I’ll write about it more later. I can’t deal with all of it: the nastiness, the violence, the throat punch. For today, just bask and gloat in greatness.
I didn’t watch most of last night’s game. So much has happened to turn me off to watching whe W that I checked out, plus other personal stuff I don’t want to go into. The WNBA context was so bad: constant attacks on Caitlin to the point where an assault on her was distorted into antiwhite Kabuki theater, the lack of support from her coach (and that’s being polite), the restrictions on her minutes and crippling of her style of play.
So, I wasn’t even aware that the team was playing. I was up on the roof watching the last of the sun disappear and happened to see it on my phone. Since the game was playing on local TV, I decided to have a look at the last few minutes and OMG….
I saw Caitlin Clark erupting, going crazy, going apeshit, going Mt. Vesuvius. This is what she did — in 29 minutes.1
That’s never been done in women’s basketball and has been done few times in men’s. Men’s b-ball is longer per game than women’s and our girl was on restricted minutes, but who cares.
Inevitably the usual suspects showed up on X to discount the achievement.
His profile pic:
/FACEPALM/
OK, T’Challa, how many other WNBA players have done this?
As if fine players such as A’ja Wilson or Diana Taurasi haven’t faced shitty teams stacked with rookies?
And oh yeah, love the dig about “19 free throws.”
Did she sink them T’Challa? How many times has A’Ja Wilson gotten a special whistle so she can shoot lotsa free throws?
Google Gemini:
…she shares the WNBA single-season record for the most free throw attempts in history, having shot 287 free throws during the 2023 season.2
There is nothing, not one thing, that Caitlin Clark could do to satisfy these fucking ghouls.
If she came up with an Iran-Saudi-Arabia-Israel peace deal, they would say, “Why didn’t you do it last year?”
If she cured every form of cancer they would say, “But heart attacks.”
She can’t win with them so let’s just note it — they are vicious ghouls — and move on….
But I have to point this out.
The normally thoughtful and fair Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is full of shit too.
“Face of the league” is a subjective measurement and if he wants to call A’Ja Wilson the face of the league, that’s his right.
But as a simple matter of fact, Caitlin Clark is the face of the WNBA, and they should all fall down on their knees and thank God that she’s here.
Tiger Woods became the “face of golf” before he racked up more majors than anyone — except Nicklaus, who is the true GOAT of golf.3
Regardless of you who think is the pro era GOAT, I can’t deny that Woods became - and still is - the face of golf.
So who is the face of women’s basketball?
Can we please stop this?
Let others waste their time over such tomfoolery, you and I know the truth:
CAITLIN CLARK IS A UNICORN.
The WNBA is run by idiots and maniacs and most of its players are deranged and the NBA management has been remiss until now.
That might have stopped yesterday.
Reading between the lines, there is stuff going on in the offices that run basketball.
Read that caption. “Expresses frustration” because the ref called a foul on HER when the other player took an obvious dive. This is sick. It’s fucking sick. And this is after the throat punch situation was allowed to metastasize…
But I digress and I’m not going there now.
We’ll see how this develops. Is it a one-off? Or did something happen behind the scenes? We’ll see.
Meanwhile I’m gutted over Norway and I’ll write something about that and the Nazi-DSA takeover of the Democratic Party…
But for now:
CAITLIN CLARK is a talent unlike anything basketball has ever seen before 4
From someone who was there:
Caitlin Clark Dropped 45 Points Right In Front of Me and The Crowd Lost It!
We’re blessed now to be in an era of two unicorns:
Caitlin Clark and Erling Haaland.
Enjoy it.
The two best parts were - I forget exactly where this was - a spinning, lunging, dervish drive through the paint to the basket and sinking a layup. Then came a 3 to put the team just ahead - temporarily. Then sinking two icewater cold free throws to keep the lead - or put it ahead? I wasn’t taking notes. The defense was as usual trash.
Point made, not asking Gemini to give me her entire career. Fuck these people.
Golf purists say golf’s GOAT was Bobby Jones. I think he was amateur golf’s GOAT and Nicklaus was the pro era. Take your pick.
Notice he didn’t say “women’s basketball.” He said “basketball.” No, I am not saying, and AC isn’t saying, that she could play in a men’s league. He’s saying her skills are next level. Men could learn a lot by watching her.
I only notice pro sports accidentally but was already a cc fan. Your coverage enhances my enjoyment of this amazing young woman. Her excellence in spite of the malice of her coach and the majority of the league makes her admirable character glaringly visible. Probably wouldn't have noticed it without the rot in the wnba as a backdrop. I haven't followed soccer/football at all. Thanks to you I mentioned Haaland to a grandson and he got excited and provided me with videos of his highlights.
Leftist politics have polluted professional sports.
Everywhere.