Caitlin Clark denies claims she talks trash in WNBA, admits she'll only do it in self-defense

WNBA phenom Caitlin Clark has provided moments of awe and antagonism connected the hoops court. 

Clark's rookie twelvemonth successful 2024 and the extremity of her assemblage vocation saw respective confrontational moments with different players, sometimes including amerciable hits connected Clark. 

Clark's fans levied overmuch of the disapproval for those situations against the different players involved, but immoderate figures wrong women's hoops accused Clark of being a trash talker. 

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Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark (22) and Connecticut Sun guardant DeWanna Bonner (24) speech words during the archetypal fractional successful Game 2 of a first-round WNBA playoff series, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, successful Uncasville, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Las Vegas Aces caput manager Becky Hammon suggested that Clark talks much trash than immoderate different subordinate successful the WNBA. 

"They jaw astatine each other, nobody talks much crap than Caitlin, too," Hammon said astatine a June property conference. 

UConn women's hoops manager Geno Auriemma, during an interrogation connected the "Make a Difference With Phil Martelli" podcast successful November, said the crushed wherefore players spell aft Clark is due to the fact that of her trash talk.

"Now she talks a batch of s--- connected the court," helium continued of Clark. "When radical speech astir the WNBA, 'Why are these radical beating up connected Caitlin Clark?' Because she talks a batch of s--- connected the court. That's what makes her good. So she's not similar this angel walking retired determination and everybody other is beating her up. Nah. She has got a batch to say."

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Angel Reese (5) and Caitlin Clark (22) (Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

After an infamous deed against Clark by Chicago Sky subordinate Chennedy Carter successful June, erstwhile WNBA subordinate Chiney Ogwumike said during an quality connected ESPN that Clark was trash-talking earlier the deed occurred. 

"The WNBA has ever been a carnal league. ... And connected the afloat series of that play, Caitlin was talking, and successful this league, nary 1 backs down to trash talk," Ogwumike said.

However, Clark suggested that each of these claims that she talks trash are mendacious during an interrogation connected Netflix's "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman." 

"People accidental that I speech trash, I don't," Clark said. 

Clark besides added that opposing players don't speech trash to her either. 

"No 1 truly talks trash to me, honestly, I curse to you. Maybe it volition hap adjacent year," Clark said. 

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Caitlin Clark (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

Clark besides explained the circumstances that would punctual her to speech trash and admitted a clip erstwhile it happened.

"The lone happening is, if idiosyncratic says thing to me, I astir apt volition spell backmost astatine you, but I'm not going to truly commencement it. 

"Somebody that did speech trash was [former Phoenix Mercury star] Diana Taurasi. But it was each successful bully fun. We were playing them astatine home, and she fouled me, like, beauteous hard, benignant of from behind. And I turned around, I said to the ref, 'It's intentional, you didn’t spell for the ball,' [and] she, like, came backmost astatine me, and I was like, ‘All right, bash it again.’ And we conscionable benignant of kept going backmost and distant astatine each other, and past we went down to the different end." 

Clark added that aboriginal successful the game, Taurasi told Clark, "I conscionable emotion you."

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