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Popular Reporter Fired Over Caitlin Clark Social Media Post
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Caitlin Clark’s return in Saturday’s 102-88 Indiana Fever win over the New York Liberty was big news in the sports world, and it also seemingly cost one reporter her job.

Clark dropped 32 points—a season high and just three points shy of her career high—along with nine assists, eight rebounds, two blocks, and a steal to help hand the defending WNBA champions their first loss of the season.

Several plays and many of Clark’s 3-point shots were going viral during the game, but one person who apparently wasn’t supposed to be tweeting about Clark’s comeback game was Big3 sideline reporter Rachel DeMita.

According to a report from Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports, DeMita, who has over 1 million followers on Instagram, 4520,000 followers on TikTok, 278,500 followers on X, and 362,000 YouTube subscribers, was let go by the company for sharing Clark highlights during a Big3 game.

“Popular basketball influencer Rachel DeMita’s time with Ice Cube’s Big3 basketball league has come to an end,” Glasspiegel reported. “The ‘final straw’ that led to the parting was when DeMita tweeted about Caitlin Clark highlights this past Saturday during a game which she was working as a courtside correspondent for Big3, sources told Front Office Sports.”

The post that seemingly led to DeMita’s firing is below.

DeMita, who’s an ex-host of NBA 2KTV, has posted about the Big3 league on X just once since Tuesday.

Conversely, the rest of her timeline is flooded with Fever/Clark posts, with her most-recent post being a retweet of the first returns of the WNBA’s fan voting results, of which Clark leads Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier as the leading vote-getter.

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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