ESPN personality Pat McAfee insists she’s not upset about calling WNBA star Kaitlyn Clark a “white bitch” during her show on Tuesday.
On Monday’s show, McAfee began talking about Clark’s rivalry with Chicago Sky’s Chennedy Carter, and pointed out that the WNBA’s growing popularity is due to the “caliber” of rookies today, excused the pointless on-court conversations players have with each other.
“It’s all well and good for people in the media to keep saying, ‘This freshman class, this freshman class, this freshman class.’ No, tell it like it is. That Indiana team has one superstar white girl. And is it because she stayed in Iowa, carried the entire state on her shoulders and led the program from nothing to a multi-year success story?” he continued.
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— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) June 3, 2024
McAfee now claims she wasn’t upset that Clark called her the derogatory name.
But he acknowledged that using such language was a “huge mistake.” Fox News.
“I was literally just saying 15 minutes prior that I hope the WNBA, the sports media, former WNBA players will show a little more respect for what Kaitlyn Clark brought to the WNBA, and at the end of the day I was perceived as the most disrespectful person on the planet to Kaitlyn Clark,” he said on Tuesday’s show.
Let’s guess the WNBA rookie.#PMSLive #Journalism https://t.co/c3qhIbrk2e pic.twitter.com/SrQwC3Ejpv
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) June 3, 2024
“Obviously, this was a huge failing on my part and for that I apologise.”
Still, he maintained he was trying to compliment the WNBA star.
He also said he had contacted Clark but she said she was not upset.
“I meant it as a compliment. That was my intention. A lot of people didn’t take it that way. Caitlin Clark didn’t feel disrespected, but a lot of people said I was disrespecting her, which is the exact opposite of what I was trying to do,” he said.
Clarke didn’t seem to let all the attacks against him ruin his play.
Just a few weeks into her WNBA career, Clark became just the third player in league history to record 100+ points, 30+ rebounds and 30+ assists in her first six career games.
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