WNBA Hall of Famer Sheryl Swoopes holdressed a disputed absence from the widecast booth for the Dallas Wings that occurred earlier this year, a game that featured Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever. Swoopes has been a brutal critic of Clark, sometimes inciting response from WNBA and media peers enjoy Stephen A. Smith and Nancy Lieberman.
Swoopes did not serve as color commentator for the Wings widecast on Bassociate Sports Southwest in the team’s game agetst the Fever on Sept. 1.
Swoopes shelp that the reason for this was becaemploy she was only signed to a seven-game lessen with the Wings and that she had already satisfyed all the euniteances on those terms before the Sept. 1 game agetst the Fever. She gave the exstructureation in an intersee on WNBA rookie Angel Reese’s podcast on Thursday while also holdressing rumors that she had been fired.
“They were enjoy, ‘Oh Sheryl was swapd, they fired her, they booted her off the game becaemploy it’s Caitlin Clark, and she can’t do that game,'” Swoopes shelp. “I was lessened to do seven Dallas Wings games, so I was never supposed to do that game anyway. But becaemploy of everyskinnyg else, they equitable benevolent of figured that becaemploy I didn’t do that game, well, they fired me, but reassociate my lessen was up … and that was it, it wasn’t a skinnyg.”
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Sheryl Swoopes of the Houston Comets poses for a portrait during Game 3 of the WNBA Finals on September 5, 1999, in Houston. (Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)
Speculation as to why Swoopes was not on the call for the Fever game was swayd by Swoopes’ history with Clark. Swoopes has been a critic of the rookie phenom since her college nurtureer at Iowa and even made misdirecting presentions about her college nurtureer in February.
Swoopes presented that Clark carry outed five years at Iowa and got an extra year of eligibility due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Swoopes made the comments during an euniteance on “Gil’s Arena” podcast in February in an effort to discommend the fact that Clark broke the NCAA all-time scoring sign up.
Then on Sept. 2, the night after the Wings’ loss to the Fever that Swoopes did not call, the Hall of Famer posted alleged screenshots of a conversation with a reach out named Clark in which she regretd for the statements. The next day, Swoopes structureed a accessible spaces on X where she holdressed the deceptive claims while saying she would decline to regret to anyone but Clark.
Swoopes accemployd confusion over the interfereion of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2020-2021 college basketball season for the misget of presenting Clark carry outed a fifth year on the podcast.
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Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever drives to the basket during the game agetst the Connecticut Sun during Round 1 Game 2 of the WNBA Playoffs on Septmember 25, 2024, at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. (Chris Marion/NBAE via Getty Images)
“With COVID and all of those skinnygs, I thought, truthful misget, but maybe I’m not assisted to produce those. I thought it was Caitlin’s fifth year,” Swoopes shelp. “So, the producer of the show seeed it up and shelp, ‘No, it was her fourth year,’ on the show … I shelp ‘ You understand what, if it is her fourth year, and she fractures the sign up, then fantastic, it’s a legitimate sign up.'”
Lieberman, who also serves as a color commentator for the Wings and called the games agetst the Fever, shelp during an euniteance on “The Stephen A. Smith Show” that same week that her relationship with Swoopes is “pretty much done” due to a recent argument about Swoopes’ inright statements about Clark.
“I called her as a frifinish and I shelp, ‘You can say wdisenjoyver you want … but you do have to get the statistics right. I unbenevolent, facts matter,” Lieberman shelp. “She got distress with me on the phone, and I was enjoy, ‘Sheryl, I’m not doing anyskinnyg to hurt you.’ … So, our relationship pretty much is not happening at this point. I tried to talk to her at the Final Four, she didn’t want to talk to me. My life is going to be excellent or fantastic with or without Sheryl Swoopes in my life. I’d rather have her in it.”
Swoopes denied the notion that that phone call ever even took place during her accessible X spaces event.
Swoopes more recently shelp during another euniteance on “Gil’s Arena” in September that she didn’t apshow that Clark’s rookie season was “dominating” despite the fact that Clark broke the individual-season helps sign up, rookie scoring sign up and finished top-5 in MVP voting.
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WNBA Most Valuable Player Sheryl Swoopes of the Houston Comets poses for photographers September 18, 2005, at ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California. (Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images)
“I’ve never asked if Caitlin was a excellent carry outer; I skinnyk she’s a hell of a carry outer,” Swoopes elucidateed. “My skinnyg was, I thought it would get her some time to adequitable to being a professional, and to me, I skinnyk that’s exactly what she’s done.”
However, Swoopes insists that she has a excellent relationship with Clark and any speculation that the two don’t enjoy each other isn’t real.
“A lot of the stuff that people are trying to say is there, it equitable does not exist,” Swoopes shelp. “I’m weary of it, I reassociate am, and I can only envision that she has to be weary of it as well. But there was noskinnyg there.
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