Dave Portnoy Rips WNBA Over Racism Claims Against Angel Reese

Dave Portnoy is accusing the WNBA of “sh-ting” on Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever after they launched an investigation into alleged racist claims towards Chicago Sky’s Angel Reese throughout their latest match.

The Barstool Sports founder, who was on the recreation, stated in a video rant that the racist claims had been “bullsh-t” and a mere web rumor, which the league is now lending “credence” to with their probe.

Dave Portnoy additionally argued that the group on the recreation was “nice” and made up of “little girls, families, ladies.”

In the wake of the WNBA launching an investigation into alleged racist claims towards Angel Reese, sports activities media persona Dave Portnoy has questioned the relevance of the probe.

The investigation stemmed from alleged racist chants made towards Reese in the course of the Chicago Sky’s match towards the Indiana Fever, whose star, Caitlin Clark, had a controversial second the place she made a tough foul on Reese.

“Can’t believe I’m making this video,” Portnoy stated in a rant on social media. “Today I see online, starting last night, just salty trolls, and I don’t even know actually if they’re just Chicago Sky fans, I think they’re just trolls. They’re people who just hate Caitlin Clark,” Portnoy stated.

He added, “They’re trolls and they’re like, ‘Of course the Indiana Fever are making monkey sounds and other racist sounds at Angel Reese,’ which is total garbage, totally made up.”

Portnoy went on to assert that the precise crowd on the recreation wasn’t manufactured from racist followers, calling them a “nice crowd” of “little girls, families, ladies.”

Doubling down on his protection of Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever, Portnoy argued that the racism investigation would solely serve to unfairly smear Fever followers.

He stated, “Unless something happened, which I know it didn’t, for them to acknowledge this and kind of paint Indiana Fever fans…..and say ‘we’re investigating the hate,’ by acknowledging ‘we don’t condone hate’ and not seeing that this was an internet rumor founded of complete bulls–t… you’re lending credence to this.”

Portnou additionally talked about the controversial incident between Clark and Reese earlier than including that there wasn’t the rest misplaced within the match.

“Angel Reese deserved to get her ass booed when she attacked Caitlin on a normal foul,” the Barstool Sports founder stated. “Other than that, what are you talking about?”

“You guys are lucky you have Caitlin Clark, you are lucky you have the Indiana Fever,” he continued. “It makes the league relevant. All you do is sh-t on them.”

In the remark part of Portnoy’s submit, a number of followers supported his rant and slammed the WNBA.

“This is why the WNBA has failed for its entire existence. They are catering to racist Twitter trolls (Angel Reese fans) and don’t care about basketball,” a consumer commented.

“Once again, we already know this ain’t true. The Person who has received the most actual abuse is CC, and she’s never complained about it. F-cking league cannot get out of its own way. It doesn’t fail in spite of itself, it fails BECAUSE of itself,” one other fellow remarked.

While a number of agreed with Portnoy, different followers felt the racism claims had been true and that Portnoy was concentrating on Reese.

Someone wrote, “CC hangs out with Dave Portnoy, who continuously racially harasses Angel, her boyfriend & bro were liking hateful tweets against Angel last season, but somehow Angel reacting to her fouling her means that Angel hates her?”

Another stated, “You just had to open up with ‘I was there.’ You suck.”

A 3rd individual famous, “I think you might be missing the point of the statement, which is to address hate speech, not the fans themselves who are just passionate about their team.”

“You literally have no self-awareness, do you lol,” one other commented.

Prior to the WNBA’s assertion on the racism allegations, Portnoy had already ripped into Reese for her response to being “fouled” by Clark.

Regarding the heated second between the 2 athletes, Portnoy wrote on X, “Angel Reese, who actually played okay and looked like she improved her game, made a mockery of her existence.”

“She got fouled, totally common foul by Caitlin Clark going for a lay-up. Falls down and then attacks her basically and makes a joke out of her existence, and why everybody hates Angel Reese,” he added, per the Daily Mail.