CThe Aitlin Clark season ended. Indiana’s fever confirmed Thursday night what many suspected, when the rising for the year 2024 announced this year on social media that it will not return this year to the thigh injury, which limited it to 13 games.
“I was hoping to share a better update, but I will not go back to play this season,” she wrote. “With disappointment, it is not a big word enough … This was incredibly frustrated, but even badly, there is good. The way the fans continued to appear … I brought me a lot of joy and perspective.”
It was a statement full of grace, perspective and focus on the team. However, for the mobs who associated with your own, this was not enough. Their anger was immediate, not because Clark misses the rest of the year, but because they lost the ability to use it as an endless weapon in the endless wars of culture.
Some of its alleged fans have predicted that X is that Wnba “will fade to mystery” without Clark, or that “other players were unable to wait to hurt”, ignoring the fact that The league reviews remain strong W has always been a difficult physical bond, even before Clark arrived.
The fact is that the absence of Clark is the only reasonable result. Athletes are programmed for a desire to play through pain. From sports halls in middle schools to the American Professional League cell rooms, slogans on the wall say the same thing: Pain is the weakness of the body; What does not kill you makes you stronger. Of course, Clark wanted to return, just as Teres Haleporton wanted to play with Bespers in the American Professional League finals, just as Robert Griffin III wanted to play with Washington in the qualifiers. This is what the competitors do.
But this is why medical professionals are present. It is their duty to say no, to draw the line, to protect the players from themselves. Over and over again, they failed in this responsibility-which increases his injury by overcoming the Haziran in June is the latest example-and countless stars have been shortened because the team’s doctors have bent over short-term pressure. The return of Clark in July carried the same whiff of despair: a game against New York, at the weekend in all stars, national television. She did not look properly even before collapse again.
It seems that the fever, at least, has learned the lesson. They even believed that they made the qualifiers, it is unlikely to fall the tyrant Minnesota Linux. The risk of the health of the privilege will be in the long term for the waters of the misconduct symbol. For anyone who is already interested in your all your, it must be closed as a relief. It is better to lose a few months of an entire profession.
But the mob that turned it into a political totem does not care about its health, or its desires. Clark repeatedly requested that it not use it to enhance racism, grievance and white novels. These calls have not heard of anyone. For her most toxic followers, she is not a player but a symbol: “The Great White Hope”, the girl who is being attacked by jealous black opponents. With its marginalization, these accounts lose their fuel. There are no errors in inflation to ethical plays, there are no moments in the court to meet evidence of persecution.
This, more than anything else, is what angers them. Not that Clark is outside. Not that the qualifiers in the fever are dim. But this their favorite weapon has disappeared, at least until next season.
For the rest of us, the conclusion is clear. The Clark season ended, and this is a loss for Wnba. But the decision protects its future and plans its name from the angles of the speech. This deserves much more than the governed qualifying race.