Caitlin Clark has had it with being the poster lady for everybody’s agenda.
Talking earlier than Thursday’s recreation, Clark was candid about some who’ve used perceived slights towards the WNBA celebrity to push racist and misogynistic tropes,
“I feel it’s disappointing,” Clark stated. “All people in our world deserves the identical quantity of respect. The ladies in our league deserve the identical quantity of respect. Folks shouldn’t be utilizing my identify to push these agendas. It’s disappointing. It’s not acceptable. This league is the league I grew up admiring and eager to be part of.
“A number of the ladies on this league have been a few of my greatest idols and function fashions rising up, and helped me wish to obtain this second proper right here that I get to play in ever single night time. Simply treating each single girl on this league with the identical quantity of respect is only a fundamental human factor that everybody ought to do. Simply be a form particular person and deal with them how you’ll wish to be handled.”
Clark has been receiving bodily play and quite a lot of snide remarks since coming into the WNBA. These just lately hit a crescendo when she was left of the ladies’s basketball staff for the Olympics.
Clark additionally spoke on the subject when she was requested an identical query earlier within the day.
“It’s not one thing I can management so I don’t put an excessive amount of thought and time into fascinated about issues like that,” Clark stated. “To be trustworthy, I don’t see lots of it. Like I’ve stated, basketball is my job. The whole lot on the skin, I can’t management that so I’m not going to spend time fascinated about that.
“’Folks can discuss what they wish to discuss, create conversations about no matter it’s. However for myself, I’m simply right here to play basketball.”