{"id":38105,"date":"2025-09-22T16:42:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/caitlin-clark-fined-for-criticism-of-referees-controversy-in-wnba-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T16:42:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:42:28","slug":"caitlin-clark-fined-for-criticism-of-referees-controversy-in-wnba-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wnba\/caitlin-clark-fined-for-criticism-of-referees-controversy-in-wnba-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark Fined for Criticism of Referees: Controversy in WNBA Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark has been fined $200 for a social media comment where she criticized the refereeing during her team&#8217;s playoff series victory against the Atlanta Dream.\n\nClark shared the news on X (formerly Twitter) with laughing emojis, attaching a screenshot of a comment on Instagram where he wrote: &#8220;The referees couldn&#8217;t stop us.&#8221;\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"false\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Got fined $200 for this lol \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1y0i1Qv98d\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/1y0i1Qv98d<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Caitlin Clark (@CaitlinClark22) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaitlinClark22\/status\/1702978179070307252?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>\n\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\nThe player, who was ruled out for the rest of the season due to an injury on September 4, drew attention to the matter during Saturday&#8217;s practice, shouting to reporters from across the gym: &#8220;Hey everyone, go see my tweet!&#8221;.\n\nHer teammate, Sophie Cunningham, also fined several times this season for criticizing the referees, responded on X: &#8220;That&#8217;s really going to break the bank!&#8221;, and added &#8220;Starting a GoFundMe now!&#8221;.\n\nArbitration was a significant conversation topic during the first-round series between the No. 6-seeded Fever and the No. 3-seeded Dream. At least 36 fouls were called in each game, including 43 in Game 1.\n\nThe Fever finally defeated Atlanta thanks to an 87-85 victory in the decisive Game 3, with Aliyah Boston scoring the go-ahead basket with 7.4 seconds remaining in the game.\n\nThe Fever will face the Las Vegas Aces in the next round, with Game 1 scheduled for Sunday at 3 p.m. ET.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It was an American football game. There were bodies flying all the time. Frankly, that made basketball very ugly and I think it&#8217;s something the league needs to analyze.<\/p><cite>Becky Hammon, Aces coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nClark, Cunningham, and three other Fever players have had to watch the playoffs from the bench after suffering season-ending injuries. Damiris Dantas was also sidelined during the first round due to a concussion. Her status for the semi-finals is uncertain.\n\nClark also commented on X: &#8220;THE BANK WILL BE EVEN NOISIER TOMORROW LET&#8217;S GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!&#8221;.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark has been fined $200 for a social media comment where she criticized the refereeing during her team&#8217;s playoff series victory against the Atlanta Dream. Clark shared the news on X (formerly Twitter) with laughing emojis, attaching a screenshot of a comment on Instagram where he wrote: &#8220;The referees couldn&#8217;t stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[383,5574,104,382],"class_list":{"0":"post-38105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wnba","7":"tag-caitlin-clark","8":"tag-fined","9":"tag-playoffs","10":"tag-wnba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}