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It’s one game into the new WNBA season … and I’m already exhausted by the drama around Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark

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20.05.2025

We’re only one game into the new WNBA schedule and I’m already exhausted.

After just 40 minutes of action, everything is — once again — mired in middle-school mean girl controversies. Proxy race wars have launched all over X. And there’s a heated crossfire between commentators like Ryan Clark, Emmanuel Acho and Robert Griffin III over whether or not Angel Reese hates Caitlin Clark.

(I have a feeling neither have any real love for each other — and who cares).

It’s gonna be one long season, folks.

In Saturday’s game, Clark and the Indiana Fever — having loaded up on talent in free agency — blew out Reese’s Chicago Sky. It was a 35-point walloping that included Clark netting a triple double and her teammate DeWanna Bonner moving up to league’s third all-time scorer.

On one hand, the league knew putting these two teams together would bring eyeballs. On the other, it’s all devolved into a sideshow involving nebulous claims of racism.

During the third quarter, Clark fouled Reese as she was going for a layup — and Reese charged at Clark, but the........

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