It's the Brian Lairn Show on WNYC.

I'm Tiffany Hansen filling in for Brian today.

Next, some WNBA to talk about here at the end of the show.

24 season has been action-packed so far.

Arenas packed.

TV ratings soaring.

The league is riding an unprecedented wave of popularity.

One of the people at the center of this attention is, of course, rookie Caitlin Clark,

her scoring ability, court vision, flare for the dramatic have made her a lot of fun to watch.

It's all helping to propel the league into mainstream like never before, spotlighting the immense

talent and competitiveness of the WNBA. There have also been, of course, some growing pains,

incidents on the court, a few incidents of bizarre and inappropriate commentary.

We're going to talk about all of it with Cassandra Negley, WNBA, and Women's College Basketball Reporter at Yahoo Sports.

Cassandra, hi.

Maybe we have Cassandra.

Maybe we don't.

We are hopefully going to talk at first with Cassandra about a recent incident that happened

with Kennedy Carter of the Chicago Sky and Caitlin Clark, who we mentioned of the Indiana

fever. Carter shoulder-checked Clark out of nowhere, off the ball. Carter probably should have

been ejected from the game. She wasn't.

Our guest, Cassandra Negley, wrote about that at a certain point with all the Tinder lying about.

A spark was bound to set fire. Cassandra, are you there? Yes, I'm here. Okay. So let's, you wrote that,

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