{"id":170891,"date":"2025-09-21T02:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T02:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170891\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T02:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T02:01:06","slug":"caitlin-clark-fined-200-for-social-media-post-about-referees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170891\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark fined $200 for social media post about referees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LAS VEGAS &#8212; Caitlin Clark said referees couldn\u2019t stop her Indiana Fever. The WNBA made her pay for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Fever&#8217;s All-Star guard, who is sidelined for the postseason with a right groin injury, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CaitlinClark22\/status\/1969503708938715514\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted on social media<\/a> Saturday that she was fined $200 for tweeting \u201cRefs couldn&#8217;t stop us&#8221; after Indiana&#8217;s Game 2 win over Atlanta in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cGot fined $200 for this lol,&#8221; she wrote on X, adding a series of crying laughter emojis. &#8220;BENCH MOB WILL BE EVEN MORE ROWDY TOMORROW LETS GOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Fever open the WNBA semifinals against the Las Vegas Aces on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Clark&#8217;s post was then quoted by fellow injured Fever teammate Sophie Cunningham, who was quick <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sophaller\/status\/1969505621591703774?s=61\" rel=\"nofollow\">to offer her support<\/a> to the young star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;That\u2019s really gonna break the bank for her. Starting a GoFundMe now!\u201d Cunningham wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The WNBA typically doesn&#8217;t announce when players are fined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">AP WNBA: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" 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 &#8212; Caitlin Clark said referees couldn\u2019t stop her Indiana Fever. The WNBA made her pay for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[102405,966,20509,108,99,10602,434,13017],"class_list":["post-170891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-102405","tag-article","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-social-media","tag-sports","tag-sports-officiating","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170891","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=170891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}