{"id":170607,"date":"2025-09-20T22:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170607\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T22:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:50:07","slug":"caitlin-clark-says-she-was-fined-200-for-social-media-post-about-referees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170607\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark says she was fined $200 for social media post about referees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Caitlin Clark said referees couldn\u2019t stop her Indiana Fever. The WNBA made her pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>The Fever\u2019s All-Star guard, who is sidelined for the postseason with a right groin injury, <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CaitlinClark22\/status\/1969503708938715514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">posted on social media<\/a> Saturday that she was fined $200 for tweeting \u201cRefs couldn\u2019t stop us\u201d after Indiana\u2019s Game 2 win over Atlanta in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGot fined $200 for this lol,\u201d she wrote on X, adding a series of crying laughter emojis. \u201cBENCH MOB WILL BE EVEN MORE ROWDY TOMORROW LETS GOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Fever open the WNBA semifinals against the Las Vegas Aces on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Clark\u2019s post was then quoted by fellow injured Fever teammate Sophie Cunningham, who was quick <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sophaller\/status\/1969505621591703774?s=61\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">to offer her support<\/a> to the young star.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s really gonna break the bank for her. Starting a GoFundMe now!\u201d Cunningham wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA typically doesn\u2019t announce when players are fined.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP WNBA: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Caitlin Clark said referees couldn\u2019t stop her Indiana Fever. The WNBA made her pay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[20509,1760,13015,8262,2652,2839,13014,2114,108,4805,99,10602,434,13017,13016],"class_list":["post-170607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-ia-state-wire","tag-in-state-wire","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-fever","tag-iowa","tag-las-vegas","tag-social-media","tag-sophie-cunningham","tag-sports","tag-sports-officiating","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-basketball","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}