Jemele Hill is back in the middle of the Caitlin Clark conversation, and this time the spark came from Morgan Wallen sharing the stage with Ray Lewis in Baltimore.
A viral clip of Wallen’s concert walkout with Lewis sent the old Clark debate right back into circulation. Hill jumped in with a quote-tweet that left no room for interpretation: “This is why Caitlin Clark should have never gotten s-t for doing the same thing.”
Her point was aimed squarely at the backlash Clark took in May, when she walked out onstage with Wallen during one of his Indianapolis concerts just hours after a season-opening loss to the Dallas Wings. The criticism came fast.
Some fans focused on Wallen’s 2021 video using a racial slur and argued Clark should have kept her distance because of the WNBA’s largely Black player base. Others used the moment to pile on with unrelated complaints about her play.
Hill had already made the same argument then. On her podcast at the time, she said Clark was being judged by a different standard and noted that male athletes such as Peyton Manning, Travis Kelce, Myles Garrett and Marshawn Lynch had walked out with Wallen without drawing nearly the same reaction.
The Baltimore clip gave Hill a new example to point to. Lewis is a Black Hall of Fame linebacker, and his appearance alongside Wallen didn’t trigger the kind of backlash Clark faced months earlier. For Hill, that only sharpened the contrast.
Hill has also been criticized before for a now-deleted post saying Clark didn’t face the same online abuse as Black WNBA players, a claim that looked worse after a man was arrested for allegedly stalking Clark. Even so, her defense of Clark during the Wallen controversy caught plenty of people off guard at the time.
Clark never publicly addressed the criticism in May. She kept moving and let her game do the talking, a pattern she’s continued all season. Earlier this week, she put up a historic 45-point performance against the Seattle Storm, another reminder of why she remains the WNBA’s biggest draw.
Hill’s latest post has already pulled in hundreds of thousands of views, a sign that the Clark-Wallen debate still has plenty of life left in it.
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