Cindy Brunson deleted a Threads post after calling Caitlin Clark's 37-point game "stat padding," a jab that turned a Sunday box score into a social-media fight. Brunson said she pulled the post after it brought racist and transphobic comments.
Clark had 37 points on 13-of-24 shooting and 10 assists as the Fever beat the Sky 113-90 on Sunday, a line that should have been the end of the story. Instead, Brunson seized on the final minute and wrote, "Miss me with that stat padding 37 points, on the floor up 20 w/ a minute to go BS."
That post landed because Brunson was not just any critic. She is a former broadcaster and the WNBA Phoenix Mercury play-by-play voice for Athletes Unlimited, and she framed Clark's night against another performance she said was more impressive: "The 32 points in just 26 minutes was WAY more impressive from the ⭐ on the playoff team from the lone star state." The comparison pointed away from the Fever and toward Seattle and Dallas, where the other game story had unfolded.
The friction was in the numbers Brunson ignored. Clark's 37 came with 10 assists in a 113-90 win, not in a hollow volume outing, and Brunson's own language suggested she was judging the score late in the fourth quarter more than the game itself. She later deleted the post and said it had prompted racist and transphobic comments, but not before the dispute widened beyond one performance and into a broader argument over how WNBA stars are discussed online.
Brunson has been in that fight before. She had already posted, "I’m team @dijonai all day every day and at most that should’ve been a flagrant 1 not an ejection," after DiJonai Carrington clotheslined Sophie Cunningham and posted "White privilege" from the locker room following her ejection. She also shared a post claiming white WNBA players benefit from "reverse DEI," which made her latest critique of Clark read less like an isolated hot take than the next turn in a running public feud. The question now is not whether Brunson can post again; it is whether she keeps making Clark the center of that argument on X.
