Swoopes ruffled feathers with her remarks about Iowa basketball standout Caitlin Clark.
Basketball legend Sheryl Swoopes came under fire in recent weeks for comments about her expectations for Caitlin Clark as the Iowa sharpshooter appears poised to be WNBA bound.
Swoopes, in a recent episode of former NBA star Gilbert Arenas’ podcast “Gil’s Arena,” pushed back on criticism that labeled her a racist for her comments and explained that “Black people can’t be racist.”
“I’m gonna say this and then I want to be done with the whole conversation,” Swoopes said.
“For people to come at me and say I made those comments because I’m a racist, first of all, Black people can’t be racist. But that’s the farthest thing from my mind.
“Like, I grew up in a very small West Texas town, predominantly White. My best childhood friend is White.
Went to a predominantly White college. Won a national championship, pretty much everyone on the team was White. We’re sisters to this day. That’s not a part of my DNA.”
The former Houston Comets star praised Clark for breaking the Division 1 women’s college basketball record and what she’s done for the women’s game.
Athletes Unlimited and WNBA Phoenix Mercury play-by-play announcer Cindy Brunson, left, and Sheryl Swoopes pose during a commercial break in an Athletes Unlimited game between Team Mitchell and Team Hillmon at Fair Park Coliseum in Dallas on March 11, 2023.
“I think her breaking the record is obviously a tremendous accomplishment — although, we can get into that discussion also because there’s a big debate on [former Kansas basketball star] Lynette Woodard having the actual record.
I think what Caitlin has done for, not just college basketball, but for women’s basketball, period, has been great.
“It just really bothers me, though, when people just take bits and pieces of what they want to take and they don’t listen to everything and you don’t hear everything because I do remember me saying Caitlin, to me, saying Caitlin, to me, could be the best college shooter I’ve ever seen.”
Swoopes explained she was trying to tamp down on expectations for Clark and LSU Tigers star Angel Reese as they eventually make it to the next level in order to avoid the “bust” label.
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