{"id":75358,"date":"2026-06-25T15:56:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/wnba-suspends-alyssa-thomas-for-cheap-shot-throat-hit-to-caitlin-clark\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:56:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:56:56","slug":"wnba-suspends-alyssa-thomas-for-cheap-shot-throat-hit-to-caitlin-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/wnba-suspends-alyssa-thomas-for-cheap-shot-throat-hit-to-caitlin-clark\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA suspends Alyssa Thomas for \u2018cheap shot\u2019 throat hit to Caitlin Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Mercury star made contact with closed fist during jostle<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Fever coach slammed refs for \u2018disrespectful\u2019 no-calls<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/12\/sign-up-for-wnba-30-a-limited-run-womens-basketball-newsletter\">Sign up for the WNBA 30 weekly newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The WNBA has suspended Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas after she hit Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark in the throat with her fist during a game.<\/p>\n<p>The play occurred in the second quarter of Wednesday night\u2019s 111-109 road win by Phoenix. Clark was driving into the lane and fell on her side after contact. Thomas and Mercury forwards DeWanna Bonner dove for the ball, and in the jostle Thomas appeared to knee Clark in the groin. Her closed fist made contact with Clark\u2019s throat as she fell. Clark managed to complete a pass to teammate Aliyah Boston as Thomas got up and stepped over her.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/25\/caitlin-clark-stephanie-white-wnba-refs-fever-mercury\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury star made contact with closed fist during jostle Fever coach slammed refs for \u2018disrespectful\u2019 no-calls Sign up for the WNBA 30 weekly newsletter The WNBA has suspended Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas after she hit Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark in the throat with her fist during a game. The play occurred in the &#8230; <a title=\"WNBA suspends Alyssa Thomas for \u2018cheap shot\u2019 throat hit to Caitlin Clark\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/wnba-suspends-alyssa-thomas-for-cheap-shot-throat-hit-to-caitlin-clark\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about WNBA suspends Alyssa Thomas for \u2018cheap shot\u2019 throat hit to Caitlin Clark\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}