DALLAS, TEXAS – APRIL 02: Angel Reese #10 of the LSU Lady Tigers reacts towards Caitlin Clark #22 of the Iowa Hawkeyes during the fourth quarter during the 2023 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament championship game at American Airlines Center on April 02, 2023 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images) ©(Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)
Indiana Fever phenom Caitlin Clark and Chicago Sky superstar Angel Reese are seeing another episode in their rivalry come to a close following the WNBA finding racism claims against Reese from Fever fans to be “not substantiated.”
Clark and Reese have had an intense rivalry ever since their game in the 2023 national championship, which saw Reese and her LSU Tigers win the ring over Clark and her Iowa Hawkeyes. Sparking up their rivalry even more was when Reese slapped Clark with John Cena’s “you can’t see me.”
And then we got to the 2025 season opener between the Fever and Sky when an aggressive flagrant foul was made by Clark on Reese to ratchet up the rivalry between the two.
If you ask failed ESPN pundit Jemele Hill, however, she’ll tell you that everybody is overblowing the rivalry. And that’s also the case if they really do “hate each other.”
“This is ultimately a conversation about cultural competency. Angel Reese’s very existence rubs a lot of people the wrong way. No one knows for sure how she feels about Caitlin Clark, but what we do know from Angel Reese’s own public comments is that she feels a way that she isn’t given more credit for how she also has added to the popularity of women’s basketball in this moment,” said Hill on her YouTube in a “Spolotics” segment. (RELATED: ‘The Caitlin Clark Effect’ Once Again Brings In Gargantuan TV Ratings)
Hill went on to say that black athletes are “portrayed negatively by the media” more than their white counterparts.
“If Black athletes are confident, they’re considered cocky and arrogant. If they speak their mind, they’re considered troublemakers or ungrateful – same tropes, different day,” said Hill.
And then she cooked up this gem.
“Angel Reese is not the villain in Caitlin Clark’s story, no more than Caitlin Clark is the savior in hers. Every interaction between them is not a think piece. If there are hard fouls, rough language and things get spicy, so be it. If you have no problem when male athletes compete hard against one another or expose their pettiness, do us all a favor and apply that same energy so we can actually enjoy this WNBA season.”
Not a villain, huh? … Reese literally mocked Clark for being a scared “white girl.” (LMAO)
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Just nonsense, man.
