The exhausting foul delivered from Chicago Sky guard Chennedy Carter to Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark garnered plenty of consideration throughout the sports activities world final week.
So a lot so, ESPN’s “First Take” led with it. Stephen A. Smith, Shannon Sharpe and Monica McNutt all had one thing to say concerning the incident. McNutt questioned on the time why the primary matter on the controversy present was a foul.
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Monica McNutt attends the “Shattered Glass: A WNBPA Story” New York premiere at WNBPA Offices on Jan. 29, 2024 in New York City. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)
On Monday, in an look on “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart, McNutt once more expressed some tinge of frustration about how that was coated.
“The dialog Jon, it began about this foul over the weekend,” she mentioned. “Chennedy Carter for the Chicago Sky fouled Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever. And I’m not gonna misinform you, Jon, if I take you thru my day that morning. I get the decision, or the textual content quite. And I’m like, ‘Are we actually main sports activities with this?’. Are we actually main sports activities with a foul? In sports activities? Alright, effective, let’s simply do it.
“So we’ve got the dialog with colleagues and associates, Stephen A. Smith and Shannon Sharpe. My bigger level within the dialog was the tenor and the prevailing narrative that has been created about this season’s WNBA play is that it’s the league versus Caitlin Clark. And that’s simply completely false.
ESPN PANELIST WORRIES ABOUT CAITLIN CLARK BEING USED AS ‘AVATAR’ FOR SOME TO ATTACK BLACK WNBA PLAYERS
Chicago Sky guard Chennedy Carter, #7, is whistled for a flagrant foul for knocking Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark, #22, to the bottom on June 1, 2024 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Images)
“It’s unfair to the ladies which were there constructing the league to this second in order that Caitlin Clark’s reputation can take it to the subsequent stage. So by the tip of the present, my tone had modified and I type of wanted to place my foot down slightly bit.”
Stewart requested whether or not there have been some within the WNBA “who really feel like I don’t need this to belong to all people. I need it to belong to this band of sisters which have labored so exhausting to make it one thing.”
McNutt raised her hand.
“I’ve had that second, just a few instances, as a result of as a lot because the dialog has been dictated by the viewers, we nonetheless haven’t really sat up and talked concerning the precise basketball of it,” McNutt mentioned, pointing to among the storylines of the WNBA season.
Monica McNutt attends the “Swagger” premiere through the 2023 Tribeca Festival at AMC nineteenth Street on June 17, 2023 in New York City. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)
“We’ve opened the door, however we’re trying in as an alternative of strolling in.”
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The WNBA mentioned Monday it completed May “with its highest attended opening month in 26 years and its most-watched begin of season throughout every community ever.”
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