WNBA rookie Caitlin Clark's popularity continues to be a hot topic in the sports world, and TNT basketball analyst Charles Barkley is maintaining his stance of calling out the 'petty nonsense' in the league.
Charles Barkley was one of the first to call out the 'pettiness' of WNBA veterans against rookie Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark, and the TNT basketball analyst is sticking with his original stance. Since Barkley's original take, Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese seemed to take a shot at Clark on social media , and more famously, Chicago Sky guard Chennedy Carter hit Clark with a blindside hip-check, resulting in a flagrant foul.
The Hall of Famer first praised Clark for focusing on her job. 'The thing I like about her, she doesn't say a word. She's never said a word about anybody. She just shows up and does her job,' he said. Barkley says Clark was inevitably going to get some sort of rookie treatment, 'but I didn't think she was going to have to worry about all this petty nonsense that's going on.' And it's made the WNBA look bad, he says.
This is not the old days where any publicity is good publicity,' he said. 'It's really bad publicity for the WNBA, because we're not talking about basketball. Any time you have a sport, especially this sport, and you are talking about negativity… when you're talking about all this pettiness and negativity, you're not talking about the game.' Barkley even admitted he had no issue with what Carter did, saying there's no problem with giving rookies 'the business.
Clark's games continue to outrate every other WNBA game, and more fans are flocking to her games than others. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
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