“I mean, throughout the season, she’s been getting beat up. Hard screens, elbows, knocked down,” Barnes said in a video posted Sunday. “It is what it is. She’s not the first, she won’t be the last. …. Where are the rest of the Indiana Fever at?

“I’ve seen a couple of girls smirk when she’s got knocked down, half-ass to pick her up. Like, y’all supposed to protect the asset, protect the star. And although this is a team, she’s the star. You always protect your star. I was someone who protected the stars …. And you wonder why you sit at the bottom of the league right now, it’s because y’all don’t protect each other, man.”

Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green suggested on Instagram that “Indiana better go invest in an enforcer … FAST!” Clark’s boyfriend Connor McCaffery, a former Iowa basketball player, liked a pair of X posts that expressed the same sentiment.

Carter responded to that notion Sunday with an X post, telling all those who feel that way to “hoop or shut up.”

And then there was McAfee, who opened his show Monday with a lengthy, pro-Clark monologue that received a lot of attention — not for McAfee’s overall message, but because he called her “a white b—.”

Here’s the context:

“I would like the media people that continue to say, ‘This rookie class, this rookie class, this rookie class.’ Nah. Just call it for what it is,” McAfee said. “There’s one white b— for the Indiana team who is a superstar. …

“Is there a chance that people just enjoy watching her play basketball because of how electrifying she is? … Maybe. But instead we have to hear people say that we all like her ‘cause she’s white. And she’s only popular because the rest of the rookie class is doing what they’re doing. … What you have is somebody special and we’re lucky she’s here in Indiana.”

Later in the day, McAfee wrote on X that he should not have used the offensive phrase.

“No matter the context … even if we’re talking about race being a reason for some of the stuff happening,” McAfee wrote. “I have way too much respect for her and women to put that into the universe. My intentions when saying it were complimentary just like the entire segment but, a lot of folks are saying that it certainly wasn’t at all. That’s 100% on me and for that I apologize… I have sent an apology to Caitlin as well. Everything else I said… still alllllll facts.”

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