I took a needed break.
And then today, 9/25 I decided I was strong enough to see if Olivia Miles broke Caitlin Clark's rookie record
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Comments are welcomed. Register here
🧜🏿♀️👸🏾👼🏾
has caitlin clark started to make statements against the racism and death threats her black colleagues are getting,
or does she stay quiet and complicit
Yes. Caitlin Clark has publicly spoken against racism, harassment, and threats directed at other WNBA players—including Black players—and she has done so more than once. The most recent statement I found was in July 2026, after Alyssa Thomas said she had received racial slurs and death threats following the Indiana–Phoenix incident. Clark explicitly said the harassment and hate were unacceptable and that this applied to opposing teams, teammates, and coaches, adding, “I don’t want anyone to ever experience that.”
There are also earlier statements:
- June 2024: Clark said people should not use her name to push racist or other hateful agendas and said the women in the league deserved the same respect.
- September 2024: After Connecticut's Thomas spoke about racial comments from Fever fans, Clark said that nobody in the league should face racism, hateful comments, disrespect, or threats, calling those people trolls rather than fans.
- December 2024: In a TIME interview, she specifically acknowledged that some people were using her popularity to push racist and other hateful narratives and told people harassing others in her name: “Just stop.” She also said she understood there was a responsibility to help make the league safer.
So I wouldn't characterize the factual record as “she stays quiet and is complicit.” She has publicly condemned this behavior.
The more complicated question is how much she should be saying or doing beyond those statements. In 2024, TIME documented that some people—including Sue Bird and WNBAPA leadership—wanted her to become more vocal, while others, including Tamika Catchings and Cheyenne Parker-Tyus, viewed her existing statements as sufficient or questioned whether she should be expected to become an off-court political/social-justice spokesperson.
And I think there's an important distinction here for what you were saying earlier: you can recognize that she has condemned racism while still noticing that the racial dynamics surrounding her prominence in the league are complicated and that the media ecosystem around her has not always treated Black players equally. Those are not mutually exclusive observations.
who is leading for MVP talks
Ohhh yes — this is where Olivia Miles gets really interesting. 👀🏾🏀
As of September 25, 2026, with the regular season finished, the MVP conversation is essentially centered on:
- A’ja Wilson — Las Vegas Aces: She is the clear statistical/consensus leader in the current award discussion. ESPN's four-person panel unanimously selected Wilson for MVP, and CBS Sports' voter Jack Maloney also has her first.
- Olivia Miles — Minnesota Lynx: She has emerged as the primary challenger in several recent MVP discussions. CBS's ballot has Miles second, and ESPN's panel also has her second.
- Caitlin Clark — Indiana Fever: She's part of the conversation, but the current published ballots/odds generally put her behind Wilson and Miles.
And Miles' case is remarkable: Minnesota earned the No. 1 seed, she led the team in scoring and assists, and she put up 19.8 points, 4.7 rebounds, 6.0 assists and 1.3 steals per game. She also became the rookie scoring-record holder with 790 points.
The particularly wild part is that she's a rookie being seriously discussed for MVP, not merely Rookie of the Year. ESPN explicitly described her as being "in the conversation to be named MVP."
So after what we were just talking about with her breaking the rookie scoring record: Olivia Miles is not just having a historic rookie season—she has finished the regular season as a legitimate MVP contender. 🥹🏾🏀💐
Me:
knowing my personal history, trauma lives in the body.
I stay off social media and other Internet mess.
so i did fine the beginning of the season but my nervous system starting getting activated from the hatred going on,
i didnt get fully triggered which is great & monumental but activated, warning signs...so i stopped watching.
im wondering any good news how are the black WNBA ladies faring, emotionally, Angel Reese, Chelsea Gray
Yeah. That makes complete sense. And honestly, that's an important distinction.
You weren't doomscrolling. You weren't seeking out racist comments. You were already filtering your exposure and the material still reached you because some of it became part of the actual game broadcasts and sports coverage.
That's a very different problem from “I need to stop reading comments.”
You can have the most disciplined boundaries in the world and still encounter something when the thing you're trying to enjoy contains references to the thing you're protecting yourself from.
And given what you've described about your nervous system, I can see why that would be especially frustrating: you were doing well enough to watch, you weren't fully triggered, but your body started giving you those “warning—this is getting too close” signals. You listened.
That is actually a really good boundary:
“I don't have to wait until I'm traumatized to leave.”
And you don't have to make the decision permanent, either. You can let the WNBA exist at whatever distance feels peaceful right now—checking scores, milestones, player accomplishments, beautiful moments—without exposing yourself to the surrounding commentary.
Which means you can still have moments like:
OLIVIA MILES MADE HISTORY!!!! 🥹🏀✨
ANGEL REESE IS BREAKING RECORDS!!!! 😭🏾🔥
CHELSEA GRAY WON GOLD!!!! 🥇🏾
…and leave everything else at the door.
You aren't giving up the joy.
You're controlling the doorway through which the information reaches you. 💛🏾
YES — and I understand why that detail feels so satisfying. 😭🏾🏀
There are actually two separate things getting mixed together in the argument you saw:
- Olivia Miles broke the rookie scoring record in 40 games.
- Caitlin Clark also broke the previous rookie scoring record in 40 games.
So the fact that the 2026 regular season is four games longer doesn't change the number of games either player needed to reach the record. Miles didn't need the extra four games to get there.
And you're right about the history of the record: Clark wasn't the original record holder. Before Clark, the WNBA rookie scoring record belonged to Seimone Augustus, who scored 744 points in 2006. Clark scored 769 in 2024, surpassing Augustus.
One important correction to something I told you earlier, though: I don't have good evidence that Augustus's 744 was a tied record. It appears to have been her record outright. So I wouldn't repeat the “tied record” part.
But the beautiful symmetry remains:
Seimone Augustus → 744
Caitlin Clark → 769, in 40 games
Olivia Miles → 770+, in 40 games
And Olivia reaching it in the same number of games makes the “well, she had four extra games” argument pretty straightforward to evaluate: the extra four games weren't needed to break the record.
And I can absolutely understand why, after deliberately protecting yourself from that discourse, finding out this piece of information feels like a little 😌🏾✨ moment. You don't have to go looking for the comments to know what happened on the court. The record is the record.
Comments are welcomed. Register here
🧜🏿♀️👸🏾👼🏾