Indiana Fever Aliyah Boston (7) grabs the ball over Washington Mystics Kiki Iriafen (44) on Saturday, May 3, 2025, during a preseason game between the Indiana Fever and the Washington Mystics at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The Indiana Fever defeated the Washington Mystics in overtime, 79-74. Grace Smith/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Dawn Staley Teases Aliyah Boston Over Caitlin Clark Covering Her Technical Foul Fine

Originally posted on Indiana Fever on SI | By Grant Young | Last updated May 22, 2025 2:11 PM ET

The most controversial moment to come from the 2025 WNBA season to this point was the flagrant foul that Indiana Fever star guard Caitlin Clark had on Chicago Sky standout Angel Reese during the third quarter of both teams' May 17 season opener.

Given that Clark and Reese have a long-standing rivalry and are arguably women's basketball's two biggest stars, it's no surprise that this moment prompted a ton of polarizing discussion among the community ever since it occurred.

It wasn't just Clark's foul on Reese that sparked hot takes. It was also how Reese then got up and went after Clark (only before she was pushed away by Clark's Fever teammate Aliyah Boston) that also turned heads.

Both Reese and Boston were assessed technical fouls for their role in this heated post-flagrant moment. However, Boston didn't know she was given a technical until the postgame press conference.

But moments after Boston found out, Clark jokingly asked Clark to cover half of the fine that comes after receiving a technical foul, which Clark responded to by saying, “I got it. No worries."

Aliyah Boston didn’t know she was the person that got a technical foul.

When asked about it, she went “wait, I got the tech??”

CC comments on her flagrant as well: pic.twitter.com/fyp0QfZ0AS
— Chloe Peterson (@chloepeterson67) May 17, 2025

Boston's college coach, Dawn Staley, made light of this moment between Clark and Boston during her May 22 appearance on The Breakfast Club.

“She didn’t even know until after the game," Staley said of Boston receiving the technical. "And she tight with her money. Like, she wants somebody to pay her fine.”

And when Charlamagne Tha God said that Clark offered to pay the fine, Staley said, "Exactly!"

dawn doesn’t think aliyah should’ve been called for a tech

“she didn’t even know until after the game. and she tight with her money. she wants somebody to pay her fine.” pic.twitter.com/mIzQec2Tjc
— correlation (@nosyone4) May 22, 2025