Indiana Fever legend Tamika Catchings stressed the WNBA needs to better protect its players after a vicious attack on Caitlin Clark sparked intense reactions online and on TV.
During the Chicago Sky’s 71-70 loss to the Fever, Sky guard Chennedy Carter delivered a hip check to Clark. Initially a common foul, it was later upgraded to a flagrant-1.
Carter expressed no regrets about the incident. Catchings, calling it a “cheap shot,” urged the league to take stronger measures to protect its players.
“The cheap shot, I don’t agree with that, I don’t agree with that, especially that’s where injuries happen,” said Catchings, who is one of the greatest Fever players in franchise history.
“The play itself was wrong. As a whole, we all have a responsibility to make sure that things like that don’t happen, for anybody to get hit like that.
“From the league standpoint, you have to protect your players. The fact that the referees didn’t take the time within the game to go and look at it, I was really surprised. I was at the game.
“I was really surprised that they didn’t look at it and that they just kept it moving. That’s not a basketball play.”
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