Caitlin Clark makes WNBA players take back their words after three-point shade resurfaces

It's been a tough year for Caitlin Clark's skeptics.

It feels like the Indiana Fever rookie is breaking WNBA records and setting new personal bests with every game on her way to winning the 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year award.

While veterans of the league seemed hesitant to accept Clark at the start of the season, most have since changed their minds and are beginning to show her their respect. But that hasn't stopped a post from April 10 by a WNBA player from resurfacing in light of Clark's overwhelming success, which could yet prove to be her undoing.

On April 1, Washington Mystics player Brittney Sykes posted on X: “If anyone is reading this…
Stop making Caitlin Clark go left to shoot her threes 😭 my goodness…ESPN even showed a picture of a MADE field goal.”

Sykes seems to suggest that Clark's efficiency suffers because she moves to the right instead of the left when shooting three-pointers.

That post prompted two other WNBA players – one of whom became known last month for an excessive physical foul on Clark – to make comments about Clark, who was then playing for the Iowa Hawkeyes.

“Buddy 🤦‍♀️,” Sky Guard Diamond DeShields responded to Sykes’ post.

“The defender in me is screaming, dude, I can't do this anymore, lol,” Sykes DeShields replied.

Sydney Colson, guard of the Las Vegas Aces, also responded: “I am so afraid of what I see,” which seems to be meant sarcastically.

Colson added in a subsequent post, “I think every single 3-pointer went left.”

X-user @kenswift posted a screenshot of those comments on Monday with the caption, “So many WNBA players underestimated Caitlin Clark before she came into the league. Who would have thought she would beat multiple girls by 30 points in her rookie year. Maybe she's reading the tweets?”

Regardless of whether Clark actually shoots better on the left side than the right, she has already proven that she is one of the elite shooters in the WNBA and will only improve.

Clark will face Sykes and the Mystics on Thursday.