Caitlin Clark is standing up for her head coach.
Clark and the Indiana Fever defeated the New York Liberty on Tuesday by a final score of 106-92. After the game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Ind., Clark spoke with reporters and called out her team’s fans for their harsh treatment (including boos) of Fever head coach Stephanie White.
“It’s tough,” Clark said, per Alexa Philippou of ESPN. “Like, that’s my head coach. I hated that our fans booed her before the game. That made me a little sick, to be honest … That’s our head coach, and we’re going to ride for her, and we’re always going to have her back.
“I just love her, and I feel for her because I know it can be a lot of times, and she does a great job a lot of times blocking [the outside noise] out,” added Clark of White. “But there’s other moments where it can get under your skin, and that’s just being human, and that’s just life.”
White was booed during pregame introductions after her controversial comments about Chicago Sky guard DiJonai Carrington’s hard flagrant foul against Fever star Sophie Cunningham over the weekend. After the game against the Sky, White seemingly defended Carrington over the play instead of standing up for her own player in Cunningham.
Look at @StephanieWhite completely go out of her way to defend DiJonai Carrington after she clotheslined Sophie during that layup.
— #Caitlin4MVP (@WNBA_Analyst) August 9, 2026
Even the ABC commentators said it was clearly an intentional Flagrant 2. But Steph is defending the DiJonai because she taught her and AT to do this pic.twitter.com/nxH05NlpVg
The 49-year-old White, a former Fever player, is in her second season as the head coach of the team. While White has a modest overall record in Indiana of 45-32 (.584) and has had a tendency to put her foot in her mouth at other points of this season, Clark is making sure to publicly show her support for her head coach.
