The latest WNBA officiating controversy took place earlier this week when Alyssa Thomas was captured pressing her fist to Caitlin Clark’s throat during a game between the Fever and Mercury.
In the second quarter of Wednesday’s 111-109 win for the Mercury, Clark went to the ground as she was being defended by Lexi Held. Thomas and DeWanna Bonner went down to retrieve the ball when Thomas’s fist then made contact with Clark’s throat. No foul was called. Later, there was also no foul called on Mercury’s Valeriane Ayayi when she appeared to put her feet in Clark’s landing space while defending her.
