It was supposed to be a uniformly joyous occasion. The 22-year-old college hoops phenom and overall No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft, Caitlin Clark, was being introduced to the media and fans of the Indiana Fever, which had drafted her.
Then came a back and forth with longtime Indianapolis Star columnist Gregg Doyel. Doyel began the interaction by mirroring the heart-shaped gesture that Clark makes on court in recognition of her family. “You like that?” Clark asked him with a smile. “I like that you’re here.
I like that you’re here,” replied Doyel. “Yeah, I do that to my family after every game. Pretty cool,” stated Clark. “Well, start doing it to me, and we’ll get along just fine,” said Doyel.
Later that same day, Doyel wrote a mea culpa in which he called his behavior “creepy,” and saying he had acted from “ignorance.” He continued, “In my haste to be clever, to be familiar and welcoming (or so I thought), I offended Caitlin and her family…I now realize what I said and how I said it was wrong, wrong, wrong.
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