“Did you really think you could lie about Caitlin Clark of the WNBA Indiana Fever for a whole year and keep your broadcasting job?”
That’s the question nobody needed to ask Sheryl Swoopes because we just got our answer – she’s been officially fired from all WNBA TV broadcasts for the 2025 season.
Embarrassment for Sheryl Swoopes as Diana Taurasi & Caitlin Clark Clap Back on Indiana Locker Room Rumors
“There’s a lot of other s*** going on, that other [Fever] players are like ‘This ain’t where I want to be’. So you have players that are very significant on this Indiana Fever team that are like, ‘I don’t… I don’t think this is where I wanna be this year’”. Sheryl Swoopes’ remarks made during an appearance on the ‘Gil’s Arena’ show back in September 2024 certainly raised some eyebrows.
It was no secret that the former WNBA player was among those who weren’t easily impressed by Caitlin Clark. However, she downright implied that there were tensions in the locker room because of her. Swoopes did not give any proof, and stated, “I’m not in the locker room. I don’t know. I’m not even on the team”. Well, two people who were there to watch the Indiana Fever’s mood recently chose to set the record straight.Caitlin Clark recently made her highly anticipated return to the NCAA stage. However, she didn’t appear on the basketball court, but instead called in for a 20+ minute interview with WNBA legends Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi.
As the conversation progressed, Clark was asked about how the narrative was running that the Indiana Fever squad did not get along with each other well, right around the same time Swoopes made her remarks.
Diana Taurasi, who played her last WNBA season when Clark played her rookie season, completely denied the narrative from her side. Right in front of the 23-year-old, she admitted that “all we heard that that whole week was like ‘Indiana, they don’t get along’, you know, all this, and I’m like ‘Great’, and then I’m like ‘this is the most together team I’ve ever seen’”.
The 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year also addressed the rumors of turmoil in the Fever locker room. Clark admitted that, eventually, one just becomes used to the narrative. At the same time, she also threw some shade at the critics by adding that “people think they know what’s going on inside of your locker room, and they just don’t, at the end of the day. It’s just, you know, the girls that you have in there, and then obviously your coaching staff, and that’s all that matters”.
Clark revealed that even though the Fever squad lost their first eight games, the mood in the locker room was still good. Furthermore, she believed that any wins that came their way wouldn’t have happened if the team didn’t have a tight-knit circle or a good locker room. For the star player, it was the reason the team “kind of turned everything around”. With time, that young group got well-adjusted with each other.
Diana Taurasi played only 2 games against the Caitlin Clark-led Indiana Fever squad. Both of these matchups were lost by the Phoenix Mercury, with the first game seeing the Fever secure a narrow win by an 88-82 score, while Caitlin Clark secured a win in the second game by a wider margin and a 98-89 score. The 3x WNBA champion herself wasn’t the biggest fan of Caitlin Clark even before the latter arrived in the league.
