Lin Dunn came to Caitlin Clark’s defense after she was checked to the ground by Sky’s Chennedy Carter in the third quarter of the Indiana Fever’s 71-70 win against Chicago Saturday night.
The Fever general manager took to social media after the match, with Carter apparently shouting ‘you b***h’ at Clark before pushing her to the ground.
‘There is a difference between tough defense and unnecessary targeted actions!’ wrote the longtime WNBA coach on X.
‘It has to stop! The league needs to ‘clean up the mess,'” she added. “That is NOT who this league is!!”
Using her own body weight to hit Clark, Carter knocked the rookie to the ground as she stood waiting for the impact.
Lin Dunn said after the match: ‘There is a difference between tough defense and unnecessary’
Caitlin Clark was inexplicably checked to the ground by Chicago Sky’s Chennedy Carter
Remarkably, the Chicago player escaped with only a personal foul.
“I’m not trying to get fined,” Fever head coach Christie Sides told reporters after the game.
“We’re just going to keep sending these assets out to the league and these plays, and hopefully they’ll start to take a closer look at some of the things that we see happening or that we think are happening,” she explained.
‘I’m just happier that Caitlin handled it this way. It’s hard to get hammered the way she does and not be rewarded with free throws or just a foul called. She keeps fighting through it.”
Carter knocked the rookie to the ground and escaped with only a personal foul
The No. 1 overall draft pick said it wasn’t a “basketball game” but she had to “play through it”
“I’m not answering questions from Caitlin Clark,” Carter said on stage after the match
For her part, Clark told reporters, “That’s just not a basketball game, but I have to play through it, that’s what basketball at this level is about.”
However, Carter refused to address the incident or reveal what prompted her to lash out at her opponent.
“I’m not answering questions from Caitlin Clark,” she said at a post-game news conference about the No. 1 draft pick.
Clark, who shot 4-for-11 from the field, finished with 11 points, and the Fever will look to post their first string of consecutive wins this season when they face the Liberty on Sunday at Barclays Center.