{"id":47665,"date":"2025-09-21T05:23:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T10:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=47665"},"modified":"2025-09-21T05:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T10:23:48","slug":"caitlin-clark-fined-200-for-social-media-post-about-referees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=47665","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark fined $200 for social media post about referees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">LAS VEGAS &#8212;&nbsp;Caitlin Clark said referees couldn\u2019t stop her Indiana Fever. The WNBA made her pay for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Fever&#8217;s All-Star guard, who is sidelined for the postseason with a right groin injury,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CaitlinClark22\/status\/1969503708938715514\">posted on social media<\/a>&nbsp;Saturday that she was fined $200 for tweeting \u201cRefs couldn&#8217;t stop us&#8221; after Indiana&#8217;s Game 2 win over Atlanta in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGot fined $200 for this lol,&#8221; she wrote on X, adding a series of crying laughter emojis. &#8220;BENCH MOB WILL BE EVEN MORE ROWDY TOMORROW LETS GOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Fever open the WNBA semifinals against the Las Vegas Aces on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Clark&#8217;s post was then quoted by fellow injured Fever teammate Sophie Cunningham, who was quick&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sophaller\/status\/1969505621591703774?s=61\">to offer her support<\/a>&nbsp;to the young star.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;That\u2019s really gonna break the bank for her. Starting a GoFundMe now!\u201d Cunningham wrote on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The WNBA typically doesn&#8217;t announce when players are fined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/wireStory\/caitlin-clark-fined-200-social-media-post-referees-125774272\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS &#8212;&nbsp;Caitlin Clark said referees couldn\u2019t stop her Indiana Fever. The WNBA made her pay for it. The Fever&#8217;s All-Star guard, who is sidelined for the postseason with a right groin injury,&nbsp;posted on social media&nbsp;Saturday that she was fined $200 for tweeting \u201cRefs couldn&#8217;t stop us&#8221; after Indiana&#8217;s Game 2 win over Atlanta in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":47666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5782],"tags":[29498,29203,7246],"class_list":["post-47665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ep","tag-caitlin","tag-clark","tag-fined"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47667,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47665\/revisions\/47667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}