With a few minutes left in Friday’s primetime matchup between the Chicago Sky and the Indiana Fever, Diamond DeShields pushed Caitlin Clark.
Trailing by 25 points, the Sky had just turned the ball over, and Clark was zooming full-speed ahead, moments away from converting a layup. A fairly no-brainer flagrant foul was called on DeShields, and Clark subsequently sunk two free throws to set a new WNBA career-high in points (31).
End of story, right?
Not quite.
Since the push, DeShields’s Instagram account has been inundated with hate.
“That tumor should of (sic) took you out,” one comment reads.
“Ms. Tumor are you alright?”
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