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Saturday afternoon's matchup betwixt the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky was the most-watched WNBA crippled ever connected ESPN, and it lived up to expectations.
It was the play opener for some squads, and it was the archetypal conflict betwixt Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese since past year.
And portion some players person said publically determination is nary rivalry oregon animosity betwixt them, determination were fireworks erstwhile Clark committed a flagrant foul connected Reese, and Reese had to beryllium held back.
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Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark (22) fouls Chicago Sky guardant Angel Reese (5) successful the 2nd fractional astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse connected Saturday, May 17, 2025. (Trevor Ruszkowski-Imagn Images)
Following the game, the WNBA launched an probe into alleged hateful comments against Reese. She claimed past twelvemonth that Clark, Indiana, and University of Iowa fans, had been racist toward her passim the season.
Amid the investigation, a TikTok idiosyncratic posted a video that said that saying determination is simply a "rivalry" betwixt the 2 teams, and players, would beryllium "innappropriate…in narration to the severity astatine hand."
"The concern astatine manus is that erstwhile Angel Reese walks into the Indiana Fever arena, she is nary longer safe. She is not safe, due to the fact that determination are immoderate Indiana Fever fans who are racist, who volition dainty her similar she is not a quality being, who volition hurl slurs and threats her way, and that is not OK. That's not a happening that happens successful sports - it is not OK," the idiosyncratic said.
Chicago Sky guardant Angel Reese (5) reacts to a flagrant foul from Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark (22) connected Saturday, May 17, 2025, during a crippled betwixt the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis. (Grace Smith/IndyStar/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
"You each knew that was going to happen. You each knew that situation is unsafe for Angel."
Reese reposted the video onto her ain account.
Clark spoke astir the probe into the alleged comments, saying determination is "no place" for specified speech.
"There's nary spot for that successful our game," Clark told reporters, via the Indy Star. "There's nary spot for that successful society. Certainly we privation each idiosyncratic that comes into our arena, whether player, whether fan, to person a large experience.
"I admit the league doing that. The Fever enactment has been astatine the forefront of that since, really, time one, what they're doing. Hopefully the probe — we'll permission that up to them to find thing and instrumentality the due enactment if so."
Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark (22) and Chicago Sky guardant Angel Reese (5) shingle hands earlier the crippled astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse. (Trevor Ruszkowski-Imagn Images)
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The Fever routed the Sky, 93-58, improving to 4-1 against Chicago since Clark and Reese joined the WNBA. The 2 teams volition play each different 3 much times this year, with each of the adjacent 2 taking spot successful Chicago astatine the United Center.
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