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🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Caitlin Clark is the greatest things to ever happen to the NBA. But instead of being thankful, opposing players have taken cheap shots on the court and now, off the court, ranking Clark the 9th best guard in the league.
Fortunately, her loyal teammate Sophie Cunningham, repeatedly has Clark’s back.
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Real Story. We've all heard about the Caitlin Clark effect on women's basketball. |
0:07.0 | And if you haven't, you should. Because ever since joining the WNBA, ticket sales, |
0:12.5 | merchandise sales, TV ratings, interest in the league have all skyrocketed. We're talking about |
0:17.6 | one person who has taken this league and just lifted it to a whole new level of interest. |
0:23.9 | Now, today's real story is not only about Caitlin's greatness, it's about her teammates' split-second decision, which made her an overnight sensation. |
0:36.6 | Let's look at some headlines. Caitlin Clark's bodyguard, Sophie Cunningtony which made her an overnight sensation. |
0:38.7 | Let's look at some headlines. |
0:43.6 | Caitlin Clark's bodyguard, Sophie Cunningham, reaches big milestone. |
0:45.1 | That was in Men's Journal. Sophie Cunningham proudly defends protecting the star player of the WNBA, Barstrel Sports. |
0:52.3 | Fever, Sophie Cunningham celebrates hitting 1 million TikTok followers after sticking up for |
0:57.6 | Caitlin Clark. |
0:58.5 | This was on Fox. |
0:59.6 | So look, here's what happened. |
1:01.1 | There's a game between the Connecticut Sun versus the Indiana fever, Caitlin Clark's team. |
1:05.7 | Now, Connecticut took aim at Clark all game long. |
1:10.1 | And at one point, Connecticut Sun Guard J.C. Sheldon |
1:13.6 | poked Clark right in the eye. |
1:15.6 | I mean, is that displacement? I think he is. |
1:18.6 | Now look, this can happen, but let me tell you, you got to understand this is a contact sport. |
1:24.6 | It's not meant to be a contact sport, but look, there's a lot of pushing and shoving, |
1:29.3 | bumping up against each other. That's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about |
1:34.0 | targeting a player time and time again. And during this game, another son's player shoves Clark |
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