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Barstool boss Dave Portnoy has called for Connecticut Sun star and 'jealous loser' Marina Mabrey to be kicked out of the WNBA over her attack of Caitlin Clark on Tuesday night.
Portnoy's plea for a lifetime ban comes after Clark was knocked to the ground by Mabrey in retaliation for the Indiana Fever star shoving Sun guard Jacy Sheldon, who had poked her in the eye.
The confrontation led to both players getting a technical foul. Three players in the game, including Sheldon and the Fever's Sophie Cunningham, were later ejected during a brawl.
'Marina Mabrey is a jealous loser punk,' Portnoy wrote on X. 'Asks to be traded on every single team she’s on until she’s on worst team in the league and completely irrelevant unless she’s cheap shorting Caitlin. Go play in rec league where nobody gives a s*** about you.'
'Imagine not kicking Marina Mabrey out after she assaults the face of the league? Just a common tech? Sick league @WNBA Also shouldn’t have been a tech on Caitlin since that girl got in her face after gouging her eyes.'
The Barstool founder's outrage didn't end there, as he later posted a long rant, further coming to Clark's aid.
Dave Portnoy has called for Connecticut Sun star Marina Mabrey to be banned from the WNBA
Mabrey was involved in a physical confrontation with Fever star Caitlin Clark on Tuesday night
Portnoy called out the league's commissioner, Cathy Engelbert, WNBA referees, and some of the franchise owners for letting the league get to a place where players putting their hands on Clark as much as they have has become the norm.
Partway through his lengthy rant, Portnoy once again turned his focus to the Sun player, adding: 'Then bang, Marina Mabrey... who if you don't know who that is, she's been on 32 different teams in two years, she cries, whines, leaves one team, goes to another, demands a trade... she's an irrelevant journeyman. She runs up to Caitlin after the whistle and f***ing slams into her and knocks her down. An obvious ejection!
'Marina Mabrey look in the mirror. The reason that you have any money before the end of your career is number two two. Nobody even cared who you were until she got into the league. So cheap shot her like that, what are you? Dumb?
'More importantly, the league, the refs, you're going to let people take cheap shots like that over and over and over at the face of your league? The future of your league? The most important player in your league? How do you not eject her?'
The WNBA is likely to review the incidents from Tuesday's Fever-Sun game for supplemental discipline, with the quartet of Cunningham, Sheldon, Mabrey, and Lindsay Allen the likely candidates for fines or suspensions.
Following the Fever's 88-71 victory at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, the teams do not face each other again until July 15.
Sheldon and Clark primarily guarded each other during the WNBA Commissioner's Cup clash, with the former Iowa star first taking issue with Sheldon's aggressiveness in the second quarter.
The Barstool Sports founder took aim at Mabrey (right), branding her a 'jealous loser'
Their simmering tension eventually boiled over when Clark and Sheldon were caught in a feisty exchange with the Fever star firing off a volatile message to further stoke the feud.
'I can do whatever the f*** I want to do,' Clark said to Sheldon before shoving her away.
The contest, which qualified the Fever for the Commissioner's Cup Final on July 1, was Clark's second game back in Indiana's lineup after missing three weeks with a quad injury.
