On Monday, left-lefty sports journalist Mike Freeman criticized hockey celebrity Caitlin Clark for getting a sneaker deal after she ended her university basketball career and entered the WNBA.
Various reports claim that Clark is expected to make her own, recognizable foot offer. For example, CNN reported on Monday that Nike is preparing to offer the Iowa women’s hockey player a sneaker deal worth off to$ 28 million over eight years.
But to Freeman, this is an affront to black people.
In his editor on Monday, Freeman goes on the attack, writing, “ In a majority-Black category, there are presently no Black people with unique shoes. ”
“If she does, ” Freeman writes of Clark’s pending foot package, “Clark would visit only three other WNBA people with unique shoes: Breanna Stewart, Elena Delle Donne, and Sabrina Ionescu. There might be a style it. ”
What could that “pattern ” be? All of those people are white people.
On April 15, 2024, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, New York, Caitlin Brink and Caitlin Clark pose for a photograph during the WNBA Draft. ( Emily Johnson/NBAE via Getty Images )
Freeman acknowledges that every name foot released from the WNBA belonged to a black girl between 1995 and 2011. But now, there are three WNBA people with a foot offer, and if Clark gets hers, that will make four. And all four are light people. Oh, the arts.
Freeman goes on to say that the lack of a foot package for any dark WNBA people “shows how Black people are being ignored in a group that they dominate. ”
Obviously, Freeman did not address why it was completely fine for “diversity, equity, and inclusion ” that no white girl ever had a sneaker deal for most of the life of the WNBA.
In fact, Freeman says,” You are a fool” if you believe these four white women are the league’s stars because they have ( or are about to get ) a shoe deal.
A’ja Wilson is a prime example of a star who does n’t have a shoe deal, according to the columnist. Freeman claims that this is due to her race.
On October 18, 2023, in New York City, A’ja Wilson# 22 of the Las Vegas Aces dribbles against Jonquel Jones# 35 of the New York Liberty in the fourth quarter of Game Four of the 2023 WNBA Finals at Barclays Center. ( Sarah Stier/Getty Images )
Freeman attempts to backtrack by saying Clark deserves her success, but he insists that Wilson deserves it more and has for some time. She is, after all, the best overall player in the world. ”
It’s all because of racism, Freeman exclaims.
A lack of respect for the Black women of the WNBA is what so much of this boils down to. Overall, a lack of respect for Black Americans is n’t something new in the marketing industry. This is old hat. That does n’t change the ugliness of it, ” he claimed.
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