WNBA veteran Diana Taurasi calls out ‘delicate’ Caitlin Clark followers after on-line backlash

WNBA veteran Diana Taurasi has referred to as out Caitlin Clark followers for being too ‘delicate’ after she was the recipient of backlash on-line for her ‘actuality’ warning to this 12 months’s No. 1 draft decide. 

Earlier this month, the 41-year-old Taurasi, who’s set to enter her twentieth season with the Phoenix Mercury in a matter of weeks, cautioned Clark, as she claimed the ex-Iowa star would face her fair proportion of struggles on her and Sue Chicken’s discuss present on ESPN.

‘Actuality is coming,’ she mentioned on April 6, 9 days earlier than the WNBA Draft occurred in Brooklyn. ‘There’s ranges to issues. That is simply life. All of us went by it.’ 

‘You look superhuman enjoying in opposition to some 18-year-olds, however you are gonna come play with some grown girls which were enjoying basketball for a very long time — not saying that is not gonna translate.’ 

Taurasi added: ‘There’s gonna be a transition interval the place you are gonna have to present your self some grace as a rookie.’ 

Diana Taurasi – a three-time WNBA champ with the Phoenix Mercury – mentioned Clark’s greatness will finally translate into the league as soon as she’s tailored in opposition to ‘grown girls’

Clark followers did not take too kindly to the three-time WNBA champion’s take, describing Taurasi as ‘impolite’ and ‘jealous,’ although the latter stays apologetic about what she mentioned, regardless of the hate. 

‘The brand new followers are actually delicate nowadays,’ Taurasi advised azcentral’s Jeff Metcalfe on Tuesday, including: ‘you possibly can’t say something.

‘It is form of like whenever you go [from] kindergarten to first grade, there is a studying adjustment. While you go from highschool to school, there is a studying adjustment.

Taurasi is the holder of the all-time WNBA scoring file, surpassing 9,000 factors in 2023

‘I do not assume I mentioned something that is factually incorrect. Like something, greatness goes to translate. And she or he’s show that at each degree. I do not see why that is going to be any totally different within the WNBA.’ 

Taurasi, who’s penchant for scoring in essential conditions has earned her the nickname ‘White Mamba,’ coined by Kobe Bryant, received the WNBA Rookie of the 12 months Award in 2004 and a historic 5 Olympic gold medals (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020) on prime of her three league titles. 

She additionally was the WNBA MVP in 2009 and has earned 5 scoring titles and three FIBA World Cups. She was chosen to 10 WNBA All-Star groups and fourteen All-WNBA groups (together with ten first-team choices) up to now. 

What’s extra is that Taurasi can also be the WNBA all-time main scorer and have become the primary participant to surpass 9,000 factors in 2023. She was chosen by followers because the league’s biggest participant of all time in 2021.