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Women’s basketball is out to destroy superstar Caitlin Clark — and itself, too

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What sports league, handed a generational talent who has played brilliantly and delivered massive commercial dividends, would make this very same player seem unwelcome and an object of scorn?

Caitlin Clark arrived in the league three seasons ago already a superstar considered one of the greatest college players in the history of the sport, and instantly boosted the league — otherwise a commercially marginal outfit — to another level. 

For her trouble, the Indiana Fever star has been treated like a virus that the league’s antibodies seek to reject. 

The latest controversy erupted after a player with the Phoenix Mercury named Alyssa Thomas pressed her fist to Clark’s neck when the Fever guard was prone on the court.

The officials missed the foul in real time, but the league later deemed it a flagrant foul and suspended Thomas for one game. 

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