If there is one truth the Fever can count on, it's this: if Caitlin Clark is playing a basketball game, Caitlin Clark is crashing out. That's written with the utmost respect; after all, Caitlin Clark Crashouts (™) are a pretty fun part of the game.
Clark is known for her fiesty on court personality. It offers a sharp contrast to the person we see off the court, the one who is photographed hugging teammates and making silly faces and racing out of the gym when she lands a huge shot. That Caitlin Clark is every bit a 24-year-old still figuring out the world and her place in it.
But Caitlin Clark, the professional athlete who plays basketball in the WNBA? She's got most of that figured out.
Clark was caught in full crashout mode during the Fever's preseason game against the Nigerian National Team Saturday. It's clear from video shared online she disagreed with a ref's call, and was ready to approach the ref in question when Aliyah Boston pulled her back. As many Fever fans know, Boston is the undisputed captain of the Caitlin Clark Deescalation Committee, and is often tasked with keeping her teammate out of trouble (or, at least, out of the ref's line of sight).
Her frustration caught the eyes of plenty of fans on social media — some who were happy to see Clark back on the floor arguing with refs, and others who were frustrated by behavior they described as entitled. "[S]hawty doing this during a preseason game seek help girl," wrote one person X.
But another seemed to say that Clark was right. "I didn’t see this live but Aliyah already chairman of the de escalation committee. Caitlin Clark had issue with one of the refs. He was bad," they wrote on the same platform.
Caitlin Clark has been compared to Diana Taurasi
Clark has drawn comparisons to WNBA legend Diana Taurasi for a few reasons so far, and one is definitely that both players and/were prone to expressing themselves fully on the court. Taurasi, who retired ahead of the 2025 season, once warned that Clark would struggle during her first season in the WNBA — and was later forced to take those words back.
"“Look SVP, reality is coming,” Taurasi said after Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes beat the UConn Huskies during the 2024 March Madness tournament. “You know, there is levels to this thing. And that’s just life, we’ve all been through it." When the pair reconnected at the same event the following year, Taurasi told Clark, "Unfortunately, reality is coming to me now."
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