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Originally Posted by GrantDawg
That crap is such a PIA. That rivalry could actually be fun, but instead we have to make it some white supremacist bullcrap. Clark's foul was clearly a blatant one. No big deal. Reese overreacted but that was pretty minor as well, and now the whole thing is overblown. Everybody got the fouls they deserved and no real damage done.
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Uncomfortable question for all. Is this an actual rivalry without all of that talk?
I mean this is not Bird vs Magic. That was a basketball rivalry that began in the national championship game that was tinged with race talk throughout the pregame talk. It grew in the pros fueled mostly by the basketball rivalry between the teams that drafted them that also included plenty of race talk and similar talk before Magic and Bird got there. Chicago is not LA, Indianapolis is not Boston. The Sky and Fever are not the storied franchises of the WNBA. Reese is not the only WNBA player who does not worship at the altar of CC. There are plenty of guards of all races for Clark to have a rivalry with. Let Reese have a rivalry with Aliyah Boston if there is a need of a rivalry between a Sky player and a Fever player.
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