There has been blowback to the comments made by WNBA legend Sheryl Swoopes after her controversial take on Caitlin Clark.
Clark, star of the Iowa women’s basketball team, was a flashpoint on Gilbert Arenas’ Gil’s Arena, with Swoopes wrong claiming that Clark had an extra year to break the NCAA scoring record.
This was blatantly false, taking in the disruption of COVID, especially in college basketball. A bigger picture has emerged with Swoopes seemingly able to make statements of fact without being called out.
Yahoo’s Jacob Keppen, did call out Swoopes, tried to say that Clark’s attempt to haul in Kelsey Plum’s 3,527 career points was somehow tainted.
Clark has 3,462 through Saturday and could break the record sooner rather than later.
This is what Swoopes said:
“If you’re going to break a record, to me, if it’s legitimate, you have to break that record in the same amount of time that that player set it. Right. So, if Kelsey Plum set that record in four years, well, Caitlin should have broken that record in four years,” Swoope said.
“But because there’s a COVID year, and then there’s another year, you know what I mean? She’s already had an extra year to break that record. So, is it truly a broken record?”
She is being likened to Aaron Rodgers, who spouts his own sort of misinformed logic on the Pat McAfee Show every Tuesday.
