WATCH: Caitlin Clark gets choked, stepped-on, leading to back injury as, WNBA officials do absolutely nothing

I don’t even know where to start right now. I genuinely don’t. She was back. She was cooking. She was absolutely frying this league and putting on a show in yet another game against the Phoenix Mercury. Caitlin Clark had 19 points, 8 assists, shooting 75% from three in limited minutes, and then some dirty, cheap, uncalled foul wrecks her back and she never comes back out of the locker room. 

The WNBA has been playing this game for two years now. They let players rough her up. They miss calls that would get flagged immediately in literally any other major professional sports league. They hand out technical fouls to Caitlin Clark for clapping her hands yes, I said clapping, and then wonder why the fanbase is losing its mind every single night.

This isn’t just a bad officiating game. This is a systemic problem, and the people running this league need to hear it.

WATCH: Caitlin Clark gets assaulted

But yeah let’s just come at Caitlin Clark for mouthing off refs lol.

Wtf is going on here pic.twitter.com/tNXyhBHusJ

— Steven Conrad Jr. (@StevenConradJr) June 25, 2026

Let me be crystal clear about what happened on the court tonight, because the league’s officiating crew apparently needed a better pair of eyes. Alyssa Thomas pressed her hand into Caitlin Clark’s neck during the first half while getting up, caught on video, right there for everyone to see, and not a single referee called it. Not a flagrant. Not a personal foul. Not even a look. Nothing.

Let me put this simply: if you put your hand on another player’s neck in the NBA, you are gone. Done. You are not just ejected from the game, you are likely suspended before you finish walking to the locker room. In the WNBA? Caitlin Clark gets a technical foul for clapping two days ago, the league refuses to rescind it, and meanwhile Alyssa Thomas is physically manhandling the face of the franchise and walking away clean. This isn’t a competitive league. This is a protected one, and it’s protecting the wrong people.

THE BOTTOM LINE

The WNBA has a choice to make. You have the most influential, most popular, most important player in your league’s history. She draws ratings. She fills arenas. She built the audience you’re marketing to new television partners right now. And you are allowing her to be physically, targeted, letting dirty plays go, handing her technical fouls for reactions while completely ignoring legitimate fouls.

The league has let this happen too many times. If this back injury keeps her out any length of time, every person who refused to protect Caitlin Clark on that court tonight needs to be held accountable. The officials, the league office, and every media person who spent the last two days worried about whether Caitlin Clark was “too emotional” instead of asking why a player had her neck grabbed on national television.

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