The laborious foul delivered from Chicago Sky guard Chennedy Carter to Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark garnered lots of consideration throughout the sports activities world final week.
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 talk present was a foul.
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Monica McNutt attends the “Shattered Glass: A WNBPA Story” New York premiere at WNBPA Places of work on Jan. 29, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Photographs)
On Monday, in an look on “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart, McNutt once more expressed some tinge of frustration about how that was lined.
“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 mislead you, Jon, if I take you thru my day that morning. I get the decision, or the textual content reasonably. 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, superb, let’s simply do it.
“So we now have 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.
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 Photographs)
“It’s unfair to the ladies which were there constructing the league to this second in order that Caitlin Clark’s recognition can take it to the following degree. So by the top of the present, my tone had modified and I type of wanted to place my foot down a bit 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 everyone. I would like it to belong to this band of sisters which have labored so laborious 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 a few of the storylines of the WNBA season.
Monica McNutt attends the “Swagger” premiere through the 2023 Tribeca Pageant at AMC nineteenth Avenue on June 17, 2023 in New York Metropolis. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Photographs for Tribeca Pageant)
“We’ve opened the door, however we’re trying in as an alternative of strolling in.”
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The WNBA said Monday it completed Might “with its highest attended opening month in 26 years and its most-watched begin of season throughout every community ever.”
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