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Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark was shoved to the floor, punched in the throat, and stepped on during a game Wednesday night, with no foul called by officials — an incident Fever head coach Stephanie White publicly condemned as "absolutely egregious" and "dangerous." The Fever lost 111-109, and Clark subsequently exited with a back injury.
The episode is not an isolated play; it is the most visible point of a pattern the league's own conduct has allowed to fester. What Happened on the Court The sequence was not a matter of interpretation.
Clark was struck in the throat — a punch, not an incidental collision — shoved down, and stepped on.
The officials' silence is itself the story, because it signals to every player in the league that the cost of targeting Clark is, at present, zero.
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