After recently “declaring” his eligibility for the 2027 WNBA Draft in response to the current debate surrounding transgender athletes participating in women’s sports, former NBA player Enes Kanter sat courtside at last weekend’s Chicago Sky game against the Indiana Fever wearing a shirt that read “Woman” on it. Ultimately, he was ejected from the game following a third-quarter verbal altercation with Sky guard Natasha Cloud.
The WNBA went on to publicly denounce Freedom’s recent antics as “publicity stunts” and said that it is “not going to give oxygen to efforts designed to mock the league or use this topic to demean and marginalize others.’
Kanter’s actions have been widely panned, even amongst some who have decried the WNBA for not having codified rules on transgender eligibility. Now, former ESPN analyst Ryan Clark is not-so-subtly making his thoughts on Kanter’s behavior clear.
“The biggest thing to me is the WNBA needs to take a stand and say they stand with the women that are on the court right now playing. That, that is who they want to protect. And we should stop having conversations about a make-believe issue that the WNBA has not had in 30 years of its existence,” Clark said on a recent episode of his podcast The Pivot.
“What should we – we should be talking about the fact that Sydney Taylor has gone from undrafted player to clutch bucket maker in the most important moments for her team. That Natasha Cloud, just 3 games before the incident happened, had 35 points, and she was looking for a team this offseason.
I won’t speak the names of those irrelevant to the WNBA conversation, nor will I give life to a debate that hasn’t defined this league across 30 years of existence. There’s too much happening on the court to be distracted by noise from those looking for a moment.
I’d rather talk… pic.twitter.com/rQsnD6WIrb
— Ryan Clark (@Realrclark25) August 28, 2026
“Caitlin Clark, on that very night, hit eight three-pointers. This is somebody that’s in the MVP conversations, one of the faces of your league. And instead of talking about that, uplifting her and her game, you’re now dealing with nonsense and having to have conversations about that. Angel Reese goes for 31 points two games ago, has 26 rebounds in the next game to break a record. You’ve been fighting all this time for those sorts of people to be recognized.”
Clark neatly wrapped his point up by calling on the league to amplify the voices of its stars, and to stop wasting time and energy on attention-starved agitators.
“How do we amplify their voices and stop having conversations about ghosts at the moment? Because there are people seeking attention because they no longer have it.”
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