Enough, already

 Aaaand here we go again.

Caitlin Clark is getting mugged out there because she's white and the black players who are mugging her are racist.

Caitlin Clark is getting mugged out there because she's getting ALL THIS ATTENTION and everyone else in the WNBA is jealous (and racist!)

Caitlin Clark is getting mugged out there beca-

Wait. 

Stop.

Enough, already. 

I've watched several times the video of Angel Reese knocking Clark to the floor Sunday in the Indiana Fever's win over the Chicago Sky, and, sorry, I don't see any of the above. I see a hard foul I'm not convinced should have been a flagrant-1. I see Reese going for the block, getting all ball, but catching Clark in the head on the follow-through. 

Hard contact, but incidental from all visual evidence. And not a mugging by any stretch of the imagination.

No, what I see is a pro hoops foul that would not have been a miscarriage of justice had the official whistled it as a common foul. The head contact is the only element I see that turned it into a flagrant-1.

And, sure, some people will say it was only a flagrant-1 because it was Angel Reese, and Angel Reese has said some things about Caitlin Clark that certain people have taken objection to, because how dare she not agree that Caitlin is the best thing to hit basketball since Naismith nailed up the peach baskets?

And other people will say it was more proof those mean WNBA girls are targeting poor Caitlin because she's more famous than they are, and why doesn't the league protect poor Caitlin?

And the worst people of all will say (because this is the world we live in now) that it's an innocent white girl getting picked on by black thugs because she's a white girl in a largely black league, and why doesn't anyone have the guts to admit it?

What I say about all that, again, is this: Enough, already. Enough.

Time for everyone to chill.

Time to take our cues from Caitlin herself -- who seems to be the only level head in the building right now, and who, when she gets knocked down, simply gets up and plays on.

So play on, already. And that goes for everyone.