Caitlin Clark answers claims she has been ‘weaponized in culture wars’ after WNBA players were accused of targeting her for being ‘straight and white’

Caitlin Clark says the talk surrounding her each transfer within the WNBA hasn’t distracted her to date throughout her freshman season.

Clarke has complained that gamers within the league have gone unpunished for being overly bodily aggressive when enjoying towards her – some extent of main controversy after Chennedy Carter attacked her in a current sport towards the Chicago Sky.

Clark, 22, was additionally controversially missed for the U.S. ladies's basketball workforce for subsequent month's Olympics in Paris.

This has led controversial figures comparable to Clay Travis and Jason Whitlock to assert that Clarke is being focused as a result of being a white and straight participant. Clarke herself has now insisted that she is just not listening to the social debates surrounding her.

“It's not one thing I can management, so I don't spend a number of time and thought fascinated about issues like that,” she stated. “I don't see it taking place an excessive amount of, to be trustworthy.

'Like I stated, basketball is my job. I can't management every thing exterior of that, so I'm not going to waste time fascinated about it.

'Individuals can speak about no matter they wish to speak about, begin a dialog about no matter. However for me, I simply go on the market to play basketball.

'I'm making an attempt to assist my workforce win. We've gained three video games and I believe we're able to win extra. My focus is on serving to us try this.'

Requested if her scenario made it more durable to develop relationships within the WNBA, she stated: 'I believe the league understands that, one, we're enthusiastic about every thing that we're getting, we respect it.

'The league has been nice for a very long time. My focus is on my teammates, they've been superb. I don't suppose it's affected the relationships I've constructed within the workforce.

'I'm clearly not speaking to guys from different groups every day. I’ve much more to deal with right here, getting my teammates to belief me and doing all that’s my primary focus – identical with my teaching workers and this organisation.'

He was then requested if he was bothered by individuals who “attempt to weaponise your identify”, to which he replied: “No, I don't suppose so. That's not my focus.”

'Once more, my focus is correct right here and on basketball. That's the place it needs to be, that's the place it's been and I'm making an attempt to get higher every day.'

Whitlock stated over the weekend that Clarke was left off the Olympic workforce due to a “black homosexual mafia.”

He wrote on the x: “He/she hates Kat. Finish of story.”

In a separate publish, she wrote: “The choice-makers in ladies's basketball will not be silly. They’ve been intimidated by the bigots of the BLM-LGBTQIA+Silent P Alphabet Mafia.”

'The identical cowardice that george floyd statues, turned Juneteenth right into a federal vacation, codified homosexual marriage, permitted “kid-friendly” drag exhibits, “Lia Thomas“Swimming… they hold making us provides, which we don't refuse.”