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Dave Portnoy volition not fto anyone accidental helium is simply a Caitlin Clark instrumentality simply due to the fact that she is White.
In a caller variation of his podcast, ESPN expert Ryan Clark name-dropped the Barstool Sports laminitis arsenic idiosyncratic connected the "hate train" of Angel Reese pursuing her spat with Clark implicit the weekend.
Clark said Portnoy, Keith Olbermann and Robert Griffin III person made Reese the "villain" and Clark "heroic."
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Barstool laminitis and CEO Dave Portnoy (Michael Hickey/Getty Images)
Portnoy posted a video implicit six minutes agelong successful which helium said helium "can't judge I'm ranting astir this again," responding to Clark.
Portnoy made it a constituent to notation that helium is "sure determination are immoderate Black radical who hatred Caitlin conscionable due to the fact that she's White. I'm definite determination are White radical who hatred Angel conscionable due to the fact that she's Black."
But helium is not 1 of those people, and helium believed the Reese hatred is warranted.
"Caitlin fans person each crushed to hatred Angel Reese. … Fever fans, Caitlin fans should hatred Angel Reese. Angel Reese has been thing but an instigator, agitator and jacka-- fundamentally for the past mates years," Portnoy said successful his video.
"Angel Reese has doubled down, tripled down, quadrupled down and has built her persona arsenic Caitlin's rival. … It's 1 happening aft another, aft another. … The jealousy that Angel Reese has towards her and has consistently shown makes Caitlin fans hatred her. … When you person 1 subordinate that's perpetually poking astatine you, perpetually degrading you, yes, you're going to f---ing hatred her."
"I'm sick of ESPN making it a contention issue," helium continued. "You person a superior hoops subordinate who perpetually has idiosyncratic beneath taking shots astatine them, won't unopen up and past plays the victim. … If [Angel] didn't person Caitlin, cipher would cognize who she is. If Caitlin didn't person Angel, it would beryllium the aforesaid popularity for Caitlin."
Dave Portnoy weighed successful connected the Angel Reese-Caitlin Clark rivalry. (IMAGN)
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Clark and Reese got into a mini-scuffle aft Clark fouled Reese hard; it was ruled a flagrant. Clark aboriginal labeled the foul arsenic a "good instrumentality foul," arsenic she didn't privation Reese to person a "free 2 points" underneath the basket. Reese aboriginal agreed contempt her disposable frustrations aboriginal on.
Clark and Reese person large past going backmost to the 2023 NCAA women’s hoops nationalist championship. Both players downplayed the incident. Both person adjacent said there's nary rivalry betwixt them and that it's been driven by the media.
Portnoy attended the contest and said Reese "deserved to get booed" aft getting upset with Clark. He was besides upset with the WNBA's probe into alleged hatred comments directed toward Reese.
"Listen, I was astatine the game. If determination was idiosyncratic being racist oregon saying s---, evidently footwear them, ne'er fto them back," Portnoy said. "I would beryllium stunned beyond content if that was the case. … The assemblage astatine the Fever game? Little girls, families, ladies, bully crowd. Were we huffy erstwhile Angel Reese attacked Cailtin Clark for nary reason? Yeah. Did we boo her? Yeah. Is it sports? Yeah.
Barstool Sports laminitis Dave Portnoy looks up astatine the scoreboard during a May 17, 2025, crippled betwixt the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis. (Grace Smith-IndyStar via Imagn Images)
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"For the WNBA and present the Indiana Fever to contented statements, ‘We’re investigating,’ unless thing truthful preposterous happened that cipher successful the stadium saw, there’s not an ounce of proof, there’s not a video of it, there’s [no] camera telephone of it, unless thing happened, which I cognize it didn’t. For them to admit this and, again, benignant of overgarment Indiana Fever fans, like, by conscionable saying ‘We’re investigating the hate’ … adjacent though it’s 100% false, by acknowledging, ‘We don’t condone hate,' and not seeing that this was an net rumor founded of implicit bulls---, you’re lending credence to this."
Clark told ESPN’s Holly Rowe aft the 3rd 4th that determination had been "nothing malicious" down the foul.
Fox News' Chantz Martin contributed to this report.
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