Chicago girls’s basketball is trying as soiled as town’s Democratic politics.
With their season spiraling into catastrophe, the WNBA Chicago Sky received blown out Friday evening by the visiting Indiana Fever led by WNBA supernova Caitlin Clark.
So, as an alternative of taking part in higher basketball, the Sky determined to play tough with Clark as an alternative — very, very tough.
As Sports Illustrated reported, Clark was the goal of two flagrant fouls dedicated by a Sky staff whose prime identify is Clark’s greatest rival from her school days, Angel Reese.
The second was the more severe — by far. It appeared extra like an NFL takedown than a WNBA protection.
It got here within the fourth quarter, as Clark took a go after a Fever steal from the Sky. Sky participant Diamond DeShields shoulder checked her from her blind aspect, knocking Clark to the ground.
“This was utterly deliberate,” conservative commentator Ian Miles Cheong wrote in a publish on the social media platform X. “They preserve making an attempt to injure Caitlin Clark.”
Test it out right here.
This was utterly deliberate. They preserve making an attempt to injure Caitlin Clark. pic.twitter.com/qbM4EwFBSF
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 31, 2024
The primary foul got here within the first half, when Clark ended up on her again after a 3-point shot. (The shot missed however Clark drew three free throws.)
Caitlin Clark needed to foyer the refs to assessment the foul for what was a transparent flagrant 1. These refs should be higher pic.twitter.com/sCeyraQJWI
— correlation (@nosyone4) August 31, 2024
It’s value noting that Clark has been the goal of WNBA brutalilty all 12 months — and never just by the Sky. She’s dealt with it like a champ.
It’s additionally value mentioning that Reese herself wasn’t concerned within the fouls on Friday, nevertheless it’s not tough to make a connection — notably given the pair’s historical past each as rivals within the NCAA and of their debut WNBA season.
Earlier than Friday evening, the Fever and the Sky had met thrice this season, with the Fever taking two out of three. Friday evening’s rematch supplied the Sky an opportunity to even the depend, however as an alternative they have been blown out by Clark’s staff by 19 factors in a 100-81 shellacking in entrance of a house crowd.
And so they disgraced themselves within the course of with play that was as soiled as any of the machinations in Chicago, a metropolis that’s nearly shorthand for “political corruption” in america.
A Democratic Get together bastion for generations — and now run by a leftist lunatic named Brandon Johnson — it’s actually not an accident that Chicago is the place the Democratic Get together determined to carry its conference there this 12 months. Identical to it’s no accident that the conference nominated Vice President Kamala Harris as its presidential candidate after kicking President Joe Biden off the poll amid back-room dealings that might have introduced a blush to the face of the legendary Mayor Richard Daley — the person columnist Mike Royko immortalized within the biography “Boss.”
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Friday evening’s win gave Clark’s Fever a good 16-16 report, in response to The Indianapolis Star, not unhealthy for a rebuilding staff.
Angel Reese’s Sky, in the meantime, are mired in an 11-20 season, with a dismal 4-12 report at dwelling, in response to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Enjoying the way in which they do in opposition to Clark, that’s higher than the Sky deserve.
However the Sky and their metropolis may simply deserve one another.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.
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