{"id":635451,"date":"2026-05-10T21:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/635451\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T21:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:49:09","slug":"caitlin-clarks-morgan-wallen-walkout-polarizes-fans-after-fever-drop-wnba-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/635451\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark\u2019s Morgan Wallen walkout polarizes fans after Fever drop WNBA opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caitlin Clark<\/a>\u2019s eventful Saturday wasn\u2019t over after the Fever<\/a>\u2019s season-opener.<\/p>\n

After playing in her first WNBA game since July 15 and briefly exiting with a back issue in the afternoon, Clark walked country star Morgan Wallen out for his show at Lucas Oil Stadium later that night.<\/p>\n

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Clark had 20 points, seven assists, five rebounds and five turnovers in the Fever\u2019s 107-104 loss to the Wings<\/a>, shooting 7-for-18, including 2-for-9 from 3-point range. She missed a potential game-tying 3-pointer with around seven seconds left.<\/p>\n

She left for the locker room twice to get her \u201cback adjusted\u201d but played a team-high 31 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt gets out of line pretty quickly,\u201d Clark said of her back after the game. \u201cSo just that, just getting my back put back in place a little bit. But other than that, feel great.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old clearly felt well enough to watch Wallen, who has a celebrity walk him out before each of his shows.<\/p>\n

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The two shared a hug before he ran out to perform.<\/p>\n

Clark\u2019s outing to see Wallen, who was recorded on camera uttering a racial slur<\/a> in 2021, ignited some controversy online.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe walks out with a racist? Not a good look,\u201d one X user wrote in response to Barstool\u2019s tweet featuring a video of the walkout.<\/p>\n

\"Fever<\/p>\n

\u201cIm sorry.. you didn\u2019t get back on defense and Paige [Bueckers] drops 20 on you. Plus you miss a 3 at the end and take an L. Do better,\u201d another user wrote.<\/p>\n

Others were more supportive.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo GOATS,\u201d one user wrote.<\/p>\n

Fever teammate Sophie Cunningham<\/a> was also in attendance and wrote, \u201cyou badass bitch,\u201d while posting video of the walkout to her Instagram story.<\/p>\n

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The Fever\u2019s next game is Wednesday against the Sparks in Los Angeles<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark\u2019s eventful Saturday wasn\u2019t over after the Fever\u2019s season-opener. After playing in her first WNBA game since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2832,17527,1760,2834,4129,2652,3031,21242,4805,99,434],"class_list":["post-635451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-arike-ogunbowale","tag-barstool-sports","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-dallas-wings","tag-fever","tag-indiana","tag-los-angeles","tag-morgan-wallen","tag-sophie-cunningham","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635451","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=635451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}