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Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve has been blasted by sports columnist Christine Brennan over social-media posts about Caitlin Clark in lead-up to last year's Summer Olympics.
The possible conflict of interest exists with Reeve also being the Team USA head coach with Clark in the talent pool that could have represented America in Paris.
Reeve took exception with the league giving television time to the Indiana Fever, so fans nationwide could watch Clark play, and not her team, which finished last season as WNBA runner-ups.
'How on earth is that ok with the US Olympic and Paralympic community and the USA basketball team that its coach is actively tweeting and going on social media about someone who is in the selection pool?' Brennan said on 'The Adam Gold Show'.
'Just stunningly bad behavior by Cheryl Reeve, tweeting at and about Caitlin Clark, kind of blaming her for not having Minnesota Lynx games on TV, but only Caitlin games on TV.'
Officially, Reeve was not on the selection committee to decide the 12-woman Olympic roster. Yet, she is the coach of the team. Her input being nonexistent is not a realistic scenario.
Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve has been blasted by sports columnist Christine Brennan
The jab was over the Team USA coach's social-media posts about Caitlin Clark last year
Brennan, who is not without controversy, has an upcoming book on Clark and her impact
Whatever thought went into picking the stacked USA roster cannot be faulted, as the team won a gold medal without much of a hiccup outside of its Olympic finale against the host French.
Team USA's only loss of the summer came in the WNBA All-Star Game where the Olympic squad lost to a selection of the league's best non-selected players, including Clark.
Brennan is the author of the upcoming book, 'On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports' with her chronicling the Fever point guard's professional career.
The columnist herself has not put pen to paper on the novel without ruffling a few feathers herself.
Last year, she was at the center of a scandal when she asked DiJonai Carrington if she had deliberately poked Caitlin Clark in the eye during Game 1 of the first round playoff series between the Sun and Fever.
When Carrington denied having any malicious intent, Brennan followed up by asking if Carrington and her teammate Marina Mabrey had laughed about it afterwards - a notion that Carrington also disapproved of.
The WNBA players union filed a complaint seeking Brennan losing her credentials to cover the league, while the columnist also filed a complaint against now-Clark teammate DeWanna Bonner after she was approached by the former Sun star about her line of questioning.
