Caitlin Clark appeared to gossip with Sophie Cunningham about a WNBA rival who ‘hates’ her during the Indiana Fever’s win over the Dallas Wings on Friday night.
Footage captured by ION shows Cunningham whispering into the ear of Clark, who has been out for the last three weeks with a groin injury, while sitting on the bench together in Dallas.
It is unclear what the Fever guard initially said given to her superstar teammate she was covering her mouth with a towel.
However, Clark seemingly responds to Cunningham by saying: ‘Yep, I know… she hates me.’
Fans quickly began to speculate about who the Indiana sensation could have been talking about if those comments were lip read accurately.
One Dallas player she has feuded with in the past is DiJonai Carrington, who infamously poked her in the eye during the 2024 WNBA playoffs.
Caitlin Clark appeared to gossip with Sophie Cunningham about a WNBA rival who ‘hates’ her
Clark was left with a black eye after the poke, which came while Carrington was playing for the Connecticut Sun.
No foul was called despite the contact knocking her to the ground, before the Sun went on to claim victory in Game 1.
In her postgame press conference, Clark was sporting a clear shiner on her right eye after the finger to the face.
‘Obviously, she got me pretty good in the eye,’ she told reporters about the poke.
One month after the incident, Carrington mocked Clark by recreating the poke during an Instagram live stream with girlfriend and fellow WNBA player NaLyssa Smith.
Smith looked to deliberately catch her eye before she said, ‘You poked me in the eye’ with a smile on her face.
The pair then began laughing as Carrington asked, ‘Did you do it on purpose?’ – an apparent dig at USA TODAY columnist Christine Brennan for suggesting she poked Clark intentionally.
Clark previously had a run-in with Dallas Wings star DiJonai Carrington (right) during the latter’s time with the Connecticut Sun
Cunningham, who has become Clark’s enforcer on the court since joining the Fever this year, recently leapt to her teammate’s defense after claiming she is unfairly targeted by her WNBA rivals.
‘You have seen players in our league try and toughen up Caitlin. Even when I wasn’t on her team. I know the talks that Phoenix had in the locker room,’ Sophie said on her new Show Me Something podcast.
”No, we’re going to show her what the W really is’. I get it to a certain extent. Every rookie coming into the league, that’s how you’re going to treat them.
‘But there’s just more for her. Now, being on her team, I’m like: ‘What are people doing?! It’s just too much’.
