Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese entered the WNBA has family names after their electrical rivalry in girls’s faculty basketball. Reese’s LSU workforce beat Clark’s Iowa workforce within the 2023 nationwide championship sport when each gamers have been juniors. They met once more within the Sweet 16 as seniors, and Clark and the Hawkeyes received revenge by ending LSU’s season.
Clark was the No. 1 total choose within the 2024 WNBA Draft to the Indiana Fever. Reese went No. 7 total to the Chicago Sky. There’s already a budding rivalry between their professional groups after Chicago’s Chennedy Carter hip-checked Clark earlier this season in a play that began a nauseating quantity of nationwide discourse. Part of the issue with that play was the refs dominated Carter’s low cost shot as a standard foul — till the league modified it to a Flagrant foul the subsequent day.
As the Sky and Fever met once more on Sunday in a nationally broadcast sport on CBS, Clark was once more hit with a tough foul, however this time the refs received the decision proper. As Clark was driving to the basket, Reese went for the block and hit her onerous within the head. The officers known as for a overview and decided it was a Flagrant-1 foul, which means Clark received two free throws after which Indiana received the ball. Watch the play right here:
This isn’t a unclean play or intentional low cost shot. Clark went for the layup, Reese tried to recuperate for the block, and whereas going for the ball she whacked Clark within the head.
Clark appeared simply nice after the sequence, scoring 9 factors within the final 5 minutes of the third quarter. Hopefully she’s okay as a result of onerous hits to the top are nothing to mess around with.
The Angel Reese vs. Caitlin Clark rivalry will hold going robust within the WNBA. It’s must-see TV each time these two gamers matchup.
