Black sports pundits cannot stop complaining about Caitlin Clark’s skin color because they cannot get over that a white player is the face of a sport predominantly played by black athletes.

Jim Trotter, formerly of Sports Illustrated and ESPN and now writing for the Athletic, has joined the pile-on. While claiming he is not dismissing her accomplishments and college success, Trotter does exactly that to suggest the real reason that Clark is receiving so much publicity and endorsement deals is because she is straight and white. In doing so, he also belittled the accomplishments of Sabrina Ionescu, who committed the same grave crime of being good at basketball while being straight and white.