Caitlin Clark exposes which WNBA veteran talked trash to her last season

“No one really talks trash to me, honestly,” Clark said. “Like, 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 going to really start it. Somebody that did talk trash was Diana Taurasi, but all in good fun.

“We were playing them at home and she fouled me, like pretty hard, kind of from behind, and I turned around and like I said to the ref, I said to her, ‘It’s intentional; you didn’t even go for the ball.’ And she came back at me like, ‘Alright, do it again,’ and we just kept going back and forth at each other.

“Then we went down to the other end and one of her teammates got fouled and we were standing outside the 3-point line with each other while her teammate was shooting the free throw, and she came up to me and she’s like, ‘I just love you.’”

That situation that Clark referred to wasn’t her first run-in with the 11-time All-Star.

Not long before the 2024 WNBA Draft, Taurasi appeared on an episode of “SportsCenter” and she subtly told host Scott Van Pelt that the incoming rookie class — and specifically Clark — were in for a rude awakening.

“Reality is coming,” Taurasi said. “You look superhuman playing against 18-year-olds, but you’re going to come with some grown women who’ve been playing professional basketball for a long time.”

Of course, the two have since buried the hatchet and Clark even appeared on Taurasi’s “The Bird & Taurasi Show” on Sunday during the women’s national championship game and shared a laugh with Taurasi about the incident.