🗣️ Brian Kilmeade: “Caitlin Clark Doesn’t Want to Be a Martyr — She Just Wants to Play Basketball” 🏀 Fox News host Brian Kilmeade weighed in on the Caitlin Clark debate, cutting through the noise with a strong statement: Clark isn’t seeking to be a symbol or a lightning rod — she simply wants to play the game she loves. As the WNBA spotlight grows heavier, Clark has been pulled into conversations about league politics, culture clashes, and expectations far beyond the court. But Kilmeade emphasized that, at the heart of it, her focus is basketball — not becoming a martyr for any cause. His remarks have reignited discussion online: Should Clark be left alone to focus on her career, or is the pressure an unavoidable part of her meteoric rise?
To the ground in a game earlier this year. Joining us to discuss his brian kilmeade host of one nation and cohost of “fox & friends”. The caitlin clark stuff and if we can we will get to the unseemly other stuff.
caitlin clark issue civil rights violations, i like what he said, i wrote about civil rights violations but this is something the league can do to stop this behavior? >> i think they don’t almost zero, they said nothing, this was a guy saying they were beating up lebron i don’t know what’s happening, but i’ve never seen such resentment, it reminds me, for example, nobody cared about the 70s until paley came, 77000 people at the stadium, no one tried to kill, they played him harder but said thank you, even the opponents.
David beckham comes to the mls and they have a bigger crowd at his press conference than most mls games. This 32-year-old superstar, there were some people who wanted to look good against them but they resent him but here’s this woman who comes into the week as legitimate rookie, she’s up for viewership highest in 20 years so the ratings were up for the highest two 100%. Attendance is up 14% year to year and now all of a sudden people are looking at the league because of this mean coin started growing sex toys onto the court to get he around their coin and it worked because the coin when they found out who it was on friday started wracking getting up in terms of value. >> to take it into pg-13 territory, let’s go with this. I had to sit through the gutfeld segment and we were talking about in making jokes about this.
Lisa, we will take it to you, and maybe a question brian about this — jokes on gutfeld? Since one? >> i didn’t want to be a killjoy. I think this whole thing is terrible. If you bring one of these things, there are young girls in junior high school going to see these games and there are women and i agree with the coach, tell me if you agree, i agree this is about humiliating these women i think it is terrible if somebody gets caught bringing one of these things, it’s just as bad as like someone who’s doing in d.c. exposure, what you think? >> it makes me laugh and i don’t know, i’m sorry.
‘s is i’m sorry. I’m sorry. >> i want to get myself in trouble. She also brings — you talk about ratings, but there’s financial value in the and economist estimates she’s been able to bring alone, an estimated $875,000,021,000,000,000 economic value so would anyone even care about the wnba if not — >> best in the world, i love anytime women’s athletic goes forward they did a hard w an nba has done a horrible job marketing. >> didn’t go to cyo according to blue collar work to bring a league up. Even the nfl had to do that.
Sandlot games and you make appearances and you let the community get to know you. The wnba store since not just her jersey, sales were up four 100% of the wnba jerseys just because of her presence, but her presence is presented by about 80% of the other players. >> we spent so much time talking about the drama and the caitlin clark trauma goes back to their lsu days associate like that was new. However, we seen other players have this mean girl behavior in the wnba, is that something happening already and we just didn’t know about it? We are paying attention or is that just self generated? >> i don’t know if there was another superstar in the show early on when it launched, people were resenting them because they just won the olympic gold in 96 and took the momentum informed the wnba.
We knew rebecca and we knew uconn was selling out 18000, all of a sudden women sports were mattering go to the olympics and make it cold and watch this league and it felt like a rock. They were able to sustain the momentum. I’m not sure what was happening because they had nobody to resent as much as they did this kid from iowa who went to indiana and revitalize the sport and it’s one of the craziest storylines of had a chance to cover. >> the wnba screwed itself on this deal in my opinion.
You are right, they been subsidized by the wnba since the beginning and a great start with rebecca with all of this but what have they done now? They’ve turned it into a fight that has for the public watching, a racial component rather than unity, which is something they preach, but don’t practice and if the leadership of the wnba this just like any mission of a sports league wanted to take control, it would sit down and say okay, i get it, it’s hard competition on the court all of this and for what you’ve gone beyond where you’re hurting and it’s already a failing business model.
If they were propped up and subsidized in the finances and attendance is coming up, people have interest in it now and they are capitalizing correctly but i will say one thing i have to say is the mba did a great thing wanting this to sustain this week and i love to see people step up and take charge. If someone steps up so what do with the out defending her, it makes her our modern this defense. >> she doesn’t complain, she’s not trying to start trouble, she doesn’t want any rough to give her a call it if we keep signaling her out because we can’t help but do it, it makes it harder for those nursing an injury right now. >> when she leaves. >> people are facing charges, they probably shouldn’t do it. >> yes or no, would you step up and be a coach in the wnba? >> it’s been offered. [laughter] if they could match my salary, i would. >> you bankrupt them. [laughter]
