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Caitlin Clark fumes at referee, drops F-bomb after teammate ‘punched’ at Fever vs Sun - Watch
Caitlin Clark struggled in a game against the Connecticut Sun, shooting 2-of-8. Frustration boiled over during a referee discussion.
Caitlin Clark's shooting slump dragged on as the Indiana Fever clashed with the Connecticut Sun, and in the third quarter, her frustration hit a boiling point.
After an out-of-bounds call was challenged by Connecticut’s coach, Clark approached referee Mike Price for clarification, but the conversation didn’t go well. Visibly agitated, she had to be restrained by team personnel as tensions flared.
Visibly annoyed and shaking her head with her hands on her hips, Clark was clearly fed up. “That’s just rude. Grow up,” she told the official, before motioning for him to “Come here. Unbelievable.” Her words, captured live on broadcast mics, quickly went viral.
With 4:33 left in the third and the Fever up 54-49, Clark could be seen gesturing animatedly after an apparent blown call. She even mimicked holding a phone to her ear and appeared to say something with the word “call” in it. Team personnel had to step in and hold her back as she vented.
ESPN commentators noted that she was shouting, “Are you kidding me?” toward Price.
Clark’s tough night ends in injury scare ahead of All-Star weekend
Throughout the game, Clark was physically targeted. Like, at one point, a teammate appeared to be hit hard without a whistle.
Clark finished the game with 14 points on a tough 4-for-14 shooting night, hitting just one of seven three-point attempts. But the bigger concern came in the final minutes when she exited with a re-aggravated groin injury. After missing 10 games earlier this year due to quad and groin issues, her status is now in question for Wednesday’s clash with the New York Liberty and the upcoming All-Star Weekend, where she was expected to participate in the 3-point shooting contest.
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“I knew it as an opponent, and I see it as her coach,” Fever head coach Stephanie White defended her, per ESPN.
“I’m not exactly sure why, but it just is what it is. We’ve got to help her learn to adjust… but the level of physicality overall in our league has been at a different level than it’s been for a long time.”
