{"id":639868,"date":"2026-05-13T04:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/639868\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:06:15","slug":"fever-fans-outraged-after-radio-host-claims-caitlin-clarks-run-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/639868\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever Fans Outraged After Radio Host Claims Caitlin Clark’s Run Is ‘Over’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Indiana Fever<\/a> are only one game into the 2026 WNBA<\/a> season, and yet, people are already firing off hot takes about Caitlin Clark<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Clark had 20 points and seven assists in the Fever’s season-opening loss to the Dallas Wings<\/a> last Saturday. She had a chance to send the game into overtime, but she missed a 3-pointer in the closing seconds of the fourth quarter. Just hours after losing to the Wings, she attended Morgan Wallen’s concert in Indianapolis. That decision didn’t sit well with certain people.<\/p>\n

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While some fans are ripping Clark for walking out onstage with a controversial singer like Wallen, others are questioning her skillset on the hardwood.<\/p>\n

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Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark (22) gestures down the court Saturday, May 2, 2026, during the first half of a preseason game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.\u00a9 Grace Smith&sol;IndyStar &sol; USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images&period;<\/p>\n

Tyrone Johnson, the co-host of “The Craig Carton Show,” referred to Caitlin Clark as the Jeremy Lin of the WNBA.<\/p>\n

“The Caitlin Clark thing is over because she\u2019s not the best player in the WNBA,” Johnson said, via Awful Announcing.<\/a> “She\u2019s not the best guard in the WNBA. She\u2019s not even the best guard from her college class because that\u2019s Paige Bueckers<\/a>, who plays for Dallas, who beat them in the season opener. This could be a situation where\u2026 we look back on Caitlin Clark, and we\u2019re not gonna look back on her like she\u2019s Michael Jordan. She\u2019s Jeremy Lin. This is just Linsanity.”<\/p>\n

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This take from Johnson didn’t sit well with WNBA fans, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n

“I’ve seen people work so hard to dismiss a player thats only wanted to play ball,” one fan said. “When CC destroys it this season, I’ll be back for the excuses.”<\/p>\n

“This is the dumbest take I\u2019ve ever seen,” a second fan wrote.<\/p>\n

“Jeremy Lin of the WNBA\u2019 is a take you fire off when you haven\u2019t watched a single game but still want to sound loud,” a third fan commented.<\/p>\n

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“Nah I see her as the woman who put the WNBA on, her legacy is cemented just from that,” another fan wrote.<\/p>\n

Caitlin has already been snubbed a few times this year.<\/p>\n

It appears Clark isn’t receiving that much love from the WNBA community. According to Boardroom, she’s the third-most marketable player in the WNBA.<\/p>\n

Prior to Boardroom making that claim, ESPN’s panel of Kendra Andrews, Kareem Copeland, Charlie Creme and Michael Voepel had Clark ranked as the 10th best player in the league.<\/p>\n

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\u201cClark received the fourth-most MVP votes as a rookie while setting a single-season league record for assists and posting the second-most 3-point field goals in a season,\u201d Copeland wrote. \u201cShe became one of the league\u2019s best passers and long-range shooters the moment she stepped onto a WNBA court, and was just getting started when she was named Rookie of the Year and first-team all-WNBA in 2024. Injuries limited her to only 13 games in 2025, but she was still named an All-Star.\u201d<\/p>\n

We’ll see if Clark eventually silences her critics.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published by The Spun<\/a> on May 12, 2026, where it first appeared in the WNBA<\/a> section. Add The Spun as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indiana Fever are only one game into the 2026 WNBA season, and yet, people are already firing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[1760,2834,2839,276277,21242,2833,99,276278,434],"class_list":["post-639868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-dallas-wings","tag-indiana-fever","tag-jeremy-lin","tag-morgan-wallen","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-sports","tag-tyrone-johnson","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639868","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=639868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}