{"id":158423,"date":"2025-09-21T03:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T03:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158423\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T03:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T03:47:06","slug":"indiana-fever-star-criticized-refs-in-wnba-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158423\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever star criticized refs in WNBA playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Instagram comment landed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/search\/?q=caitlin+clark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Caitlin Clark<\/a> a $200 fine, the <a href=\"https:\/\/fever.wnba.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Indiana Fever<\/a> superstar shared Saturday on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Clark commented twice on a post following<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/basketball\/wnba\/fever\/2025\/09\/16\/indiana-fever-atlanta-dream-score-today-wnba-playoffs-game-2-kelsey-mitchell-aliyah-boston\/86168075007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> Tuesday&#8217;s Game 2 win over the Atlanta Dream<\/a>, writing: &#8220;Elite bench mob&#8221; and &#8220;Refs couldn&#8217;t stop us.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can guess which one got her in trouble with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnba.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WNBA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Clark quoted a post with the Instagram comments in question on Twitter on Saturday afternoon and wrote: &#8220;Got fined $200 for this lol\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02BENCH MOB WILL BE EVEN MORE ROWDY TOMORROW LETS GOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! @IndianaFever&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\">Insider: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/basketball\/wnba\/fever\/2025\/09\/18\/caitlin-clark-indiana-fever-wnba-playoffs-injury-update-play-not-eligible\/86228896007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Can Caitlin Clark play in WNBA playoffs? Why Fever star wouldn&#8217;t be able to if healthy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That post was then quoted by teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/search\/?q=sophie+cunningham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sophie Cunningham<\/a>, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sophaller\/status\/1969505621591703774?s=61\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">quick to offer her support<\/a> for Clark, writing: &#8220;That&#8217;s really gonna break the bank for her. Starting a GoFundMe now!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The officiating was a major point of consternation in Game 1 of the WNBA first-round series between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/sports\/fever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Indiana Fever<\/a> and Atlanta Dream, with the teams combining for 43 fouls \u2014 19 of which went against the Fever (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/basketball\/wnba\/fever\/2025\/09\/14\/stephanie-white-odyssey-sims-gets-technical-fouls-in-fever-game-1-loss-atlanta-dream-wnba-playoffs\/86155680007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two technical fouls<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The Fever captured games two and three to advance to the WNBA semifinals. They&#8217;ll open the best-of-five Sunday at the Las Vegas Aces (3 p.m., ABC).<\/p>\n<p>Follow Brian Haenchen on Twitter at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Brian_Haenchen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@Brian_Haenchen<\/a>.\u00a0Get IndyStar&#8217;s Indiana Fever and Caitlin Clark coverage sent directly to your inbox with our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/profile.indystar.com\/newsletters\/caitlin-clark-fever\/?ipid=NLsignupFever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Caitlin Clark Fever newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Instagram comment landed Caitlin Clark a $200 fine, the Indiana Fever superstar shared Saturday on social media.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[10228,505,732,461,49,7075,735,48,7076,10877,8522,6410,7087,6003,3011,5904,2803,1458,3460,7081,2034,44,1333,2042,7080,36547,10876,10879,82,865,7082,1459,630,26214,4134,4143],"class_list":["post-158423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aces","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-caitlin","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-clark","tag-cunningham","tag-dream","tag-exclude","tag-exclude-from-paywall-logic-testing","tag-fever","tag-from","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-fever","tag-las","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-logic","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-paywall","tag-playoffs","tag-sophie","tag-sophie-cunningham","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-testing","tag-vegas","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-playoffs","tag-womens","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}