{"id":2251472,"date":"2024-05-23T17:18:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T21:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lebron-james-charles-barkley-come-to-caitlin-clarks-defense-against-naysayers\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T17:22:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T21:22:28","slug":"lebron-james-charles-barkley-come-to-caitlin-clarks-defense-against-naysayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lebron-james-charles-barkley-come-to-caitlin-clarks-defense-against-naysayers\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James and Charles Barkley Support Caitlin Clark Against Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flebron-james-charles-barkley-come-to-caitlin-clarks-defense-against-naysayers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2251472&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Basketball icons LeBron \u200dJames and Charles Barkley\u200c defended Caitlin Clark following her team&#8217;s loss, criticizing\u200b the backlash she faced. Barkley supported Clark\u200d during TNT&#8217;s &#8220;Inside the NBA,&#8221; addressing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-should-judges-always-honor-crusading-liberal-media\/\" title=\"GRAHAM: Should Judges Always Honor Crusading Liberal Media?\">unfair criticism<\/a>. James empathized with Clark, \u2064advising her to ignore negativity\u2063 and keep striving. The support \u2062from James and Barkley highlights the challenges female athletes face. Basketball legends \u2064LeBron\u2062 James and \u200bCharles Barkley stood up for Caitlin Clark after her team&#8217;s defeat, condemning the criticism she endured. Barkley backed Clark\u2063 on TNT&#8217;s &#8220;Inside the NBA,&#8221; speaking out against the unjust feedback. James offered support to Clark, urging \u200bher to stay focused amidst negativity.\u2062 Their\u200d support sheds light on the \u2062struggles female athletes encounter.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Basketball legends <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lebron-james-hundreds-of-top-celebrities-side-with-israel-after-terror-attacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LeBron James<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/charles-barkley-rips-san-francisco-during-live-nba-all-star-broadcast-you-cant-even-walk-around-down-there\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Barkley<\/a> came to the defense of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/caitlin-clark\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Caitlin Clark<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  against naysayers after her new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-trumps-impeachment-defense-team-collapses-ahead-of-senate-trial-top-lawyers-out\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Trump\u2019s Impeachment Defense Team Collapses Ahead Of Senate Trial, Top Lawyers Out\">team fell<\/a> to 0-5 with Wednesday night\u2019s loss to the Seattle Storm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TNT\u2019s \u201cInside the NBA\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ComplexSports\/status\/1793432883966706169\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pregame show<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, host Barkley reacted to the backlash against Clark \u2014 who was picked number 1 overall in the 2024 WNBA draft \u2014 and said \u201cYou women out there, y\u2019all petty, man.\u201d He also talked about the comments James made on the \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cqJ2u11OTY0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mind the Game<\/span><\/a>\u201c<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> podcast when he slammed the criticism against the rookie of the Indiana Fever team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLeBron, you\u2019re 100% right on these girls hating on Caitlin Clark,\u201d Barkley said. \u201cY\u2019all petty, girls. I expect men to be petty because we\u2019re the most insecure group in the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cY\u2019all should be thanking that girl for getting y\u2019all a** private charters, all the money and visibility she\u2019s bringing to the WNBA,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">James \u2014 drafted No. 1 overall in the NBA draft in 2003 \u2014 said he\u2019s been where Caitlin is now and offered her support, saying that the best thing she could do was put on blinders and keep working, calling the criticism \u201cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-debunking-gun-control\/\" title=\"SHAPIRO: Debunking Gun Control\">weirdest thing<\/a> in the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Caitlin Clark\u2019s popularity is about \u2018White privilege\u2019 and \u2018pretty privilege\u2019: host of \u2018The View\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LjNrM7nm8F\">https:\/\/t.co\/LjNrM7nm8F<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mv8Qe4LEIP\">pic.twitter.com\/Mv8Qe4LEIP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Post (@nypost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1793630850392715323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMy advice to Caitlin, and my advice to anyone that comes in with this level of notoriety, out-of-this-world expectation, whatever the case may be, be a horse, man,\u201d James said on the podcast. \u201cThe Kentucky Derby. Put your blinders on, go to work, show up to work, punch your clock in, prepare yourself, work on your game, work on your craft.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cKind of keep your mouth shut and just learn from the vets,\u201d he added. \u201cWhen they ask, voice your opinion if they want your opinion early on because everybody is looking for you to say anything and they\u2019re gonna splice it and cut it and make it a negative thing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe one thing I love that she\u2019s bringing to her sport: More people want to watch,\u201d James continued. \u201cMore people want to tune in. \u2026 Don\u2019t get it twisted, don\u2019t get it f**ked up. Caitlin Clark is the reason why a lot of great things is gonna happen for the WNBA. \u2026 I\u2019m rooting for Caitlin because I\u2019ve been in that seat before. I\u2019ve walked that road before. I hope she kills.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Criticism of Clark has come from all over, including outside the sports world with \u201cThe View\u201d cohost <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/wnba\/article-13449307\/caitlin-clark-pretty-white-privilege-sunny-hostin.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sunny Hostin<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  saying the WNBA player benefits from \u201cpretty privilege.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI do think that there is a thing called pretty privilege,\u201d Hostin said. \u2018There is a thing called white privilege. There is a thing called tall privilege, and we have to acknowledge that\u2026<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But I do think that she is more relatable to more people because she\u2019s white, because she\u2019s attractive, and unfortunately, there still is that stigma against the LGBTQ+ community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA stars LeBron James and Charles Barkley spoke out in support of Caitlin Clark as her team faced criticism following a tough loss to the Seattle Storm, leaving them at 0-5. 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