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Caitlin Clark is one of the guests on the new season David Letterman’s Netflix interview show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman. Clark is the first female athlete to appear on Letterman’s show, which premiered in 2018.
During the interview, Caitlin Clark, the rookie of the year in the WNBA last season, confirmed that only one player in the league trash-talked her during her rookie season, and it wasn’t the Chicago Sky duo of Angel Reese and Diamond DeShields, but rather, WNBA legend Diana Taurasi.
“No one really talks trash to me, honestly. I swear to you. Maybe that’ll happen next year, but the only thing is, if somebody says something to me, I probably will go back at you, but I’m not gonna really start it,” Clark explained told Letterman.
“Somebody that did talk trash was Diana Taurasi, but all in good fun. We were playing them at home, and she fouled me pretty hard, kind of from behind. I turned around, and said to her and the ref, ‘It’s intentional. You didn’t even go for the ball.’ Blah blah blah. She came back at me, and I’m like, ‘All right, do it again.’ We just kept goin g back and forth at each other. And then we wernt down to the other end, and one of her teammates got fouled, and we were standing outside the three-point line, and she came up to me and she’s like, ‘I just love ya.’ Like, that’s awesome. It’s cool. Obviously that’s somebody I grew up watching her game and idolizing, and I was like, ‘I love you too,’ and I went and got the inbound.”
Caitlin says no one talked trash to her except Diana Taurasi
“We just kept going back and forth at each other…then she came up to me and she’s like ‘I just love ya’…and I was like ‘I love you too.’
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— correlation (@nosyone4) April 8, 2025
To Diana Taurasi’s credit, she’s since pulled a 180 on her opinion of Clark, recently taking a dig at herself for being wrong about her prospects in the WNBA, particularly during her rookie season.
“Thank you, unfortunately, reality is coming to me now,” Taurasi said in response to Clark congratulating her on retirement on the Bird & Taurasi Show podcast, referncing the fact that she said “reality it coming” for Clark when she enters the WNBA.
Diana Taurasi
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— WNBA Clips & Highlights (@WNBAPlayerWatch) April 6, 2025
During her rookie season with the Indiana Fever, Clark, the highest-scoring player in the history fo both men’s and women’s college basketball, average 19.2 points, 8.4 assists, and 5.7 rebounds per game.