Aliyah Boston, Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever teammate, recently tried her hand at “coaching,” that fans ultimately praised her for, as she calls for Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Kenny Atkinson to challenge a referee call—which he eventually did.
During ther recent game of the cavs against the Boston Celtics, a jump ball was called on the Cavs side, which prompted reaction on the courtside, where Aliyah Boston happens to be sitting watching the game. Most people protested over the call, but it was Boston’s hysterical protest and ruging of Cavs head coach Kenny Atkinsons that gained the most attention, all the way to social media.
Boston urged Atkinson to challenge the call, repeatedly, until the coach did so.
Aliyah Boston telling Kenny Atkinson to challenge a call pic.twitter.com/dj5ht65EhY
— CJ Fogler 🫡 (@cjzero) November 20, 2024
The call came from when Celtics forward Jayson Tatum was dribbling through the hoop and lost the ball out of bounds. The ref called a jump ball, and this was the call that Atkinson ultimately challenged. Fortunately or him and the Cavs, the challenge was accepted and the call was overturned.
Later on, Boston took to her social media and recalled the moment, saying that it is something that she could not just let pass.
“I try my best to be quiet but I can’t help it,” she said.
😂😂😂I try my best to be quiet but I can’t help it https://t.co/teYCUHtSFc
— Aliyah A. Boston (@aa_boston) November 20, 2024
Caitlin Clark was also spotted doing something similar recently in a game between her former team Iowa and Drake, reacting to a referee call and not hesitating to show her disagreement with it.
Will Caitlin Clark Finally Confirm Joining Unrivaled?
Caitlin Clark is not short of activities while the WNBA is offseason. She has been travling a lot, and even dipped her toes on other professinola sports as she participated in professional golf through the LGPA’s The Annika tournament early last week.
However, Clark is yet to confirm one more activity that a lot of fans have ben expecting of her for quite some time now—joingin the new women’s basketball league Unrivaled.
Unrivfaled is an upcoming 3-on-3 league that aims to bring the best and most popular names in women’s basketball, which will play dduring the WNBA offseason. Only two slots out of the 36-plyer roster remain, and the final slot is expected to be Clark, though she has not made any confirmation yet. XClark, however, has not failed to tease fans the possibility.
“We’ll see,” Clark said in an interview. “I don’t know. Just taking it as it goes … see if I want to play eventually.”
“We’re always going to have a roster spot for Caitlin Clark,” Unrivaled president Alex Bazzell said recently. “She knows that we have a spot for her when she’s ready.”
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