South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley is the latest high-profile figure to weigh in on the recent drama surrounding WNBA stars Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.
And when asked about the situation on Thursday, she gave an answer that many others would have been wise to heed: follow the players’ lead and move on.
“I think officiating is a hard job, that’s one. To decipher whether that’s a Flagrant 1 or not, hard job, hard job,” Staley said on The Breakfast Club on 105.1 FM in New York City. “I do think that they understand the dynamics of Angel and Caitlin. I do. I think it’s great for our game. It’s a sport, treat us like a sport. Don’t treat us as anything other than being a sport. That happens in every sport — soccer, basketball, football, it happens in every sport, so let it be.
“I’m gonna take the lead of Angel and Caitlin, and that lead is they said it was a foul, the officials got it right, we’re moving on. I’m gonna take their lead.”
During the Indiana Fever’s 93-58 win over the Chicago Sky on May 17, Clark delivered a hard foul on Reese that was later upgraded to a flagrant upon review. In the immediate aftermath, Reese popped up and had words for Clark, while Fever…
