{"id":75571,"date":"2026-06-30T18:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/alyssa-thomas-calls-out-wnba-after-receiving-death-threats-racial-abuse-from-caitlin-clark-foul-incident\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T18:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:01:16","slug":"alyssa-thomas-calls-out-wnba-after-receiving-death-threats-racial-abuse-from-caitlin-clark-foul-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/alyssa-thomas-calls-out-wnba-after-receiving-death-threats-racial-abuse-from-caitlin-clark-foul-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Alyssa Thomas calls out WNBA after receiving death threats, racial abuse from Caitlin Clark foul incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Thomas blasts commissioner for silence on player safety<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Mercury star was suspended for hit to Clark\u2019s throat<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Play was \u2018complete accident\u2019 and \u2018unfortunate\u2019, she says<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas said she has received death threats and been called racial slurs in the aftermath of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/25\/caitlin-clark-stephanie-white-wnba-refs-fever-mercury\">her one-game suspension<\/a> after she made contact with her fist to Caitlin Clark\u2019s throat in last week\u2019s matchup against Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas also criticized the WNBA commissioner, Cathy Engelbert, for not doing more to protect players.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/30\/alyssa-thomas-wnba-caitlin-clark-death-threats-cathy-engelbert\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas blasts commissioner for silence on player safety Mercury star was suspended for hit to Clark\u2019s throat Play was \u2018complete accident\u2019 and \u2018unfortunate\u2019, she says Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas said she has received death threats and been called racial slurs in the aftermath of her one-game suspension after she made contact with her fist &#8230; <a title=\"Alyssa Thomas calls out WNBA after receiving death threats, racial abuse from Caitlin Clark foul incident\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/alyssa-thomas-calls-out-wnba-after-receiving-death-threats-racial-abuse-from-caitlin-clark-foul-incident\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Alyssa Thomas calls out WNBA after receiving death threats, racial abuse from Caitlin Clark foul incident\">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-75571","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\/75571","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=75571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}