Andrew Schulz compares Caitlin Clark’s situation to Black Lives Matter

The Indiana Fever have been frequent flyers in headlines. Unfortunately, although Indiana has won seven of its last nine games, the discourse surrounding the team has largely been centered around comments reserve guard Sophie Cunningham had on transgender participation in women’s sports.

“I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I’m like, ‘I never once said that,'” Cunningham said in an ESPN profile published last month. “I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.”

After losing to the Minnesota Lynx on Sunday, Cunningham’s superstar teammate Caitlin Clark was asked about the topic, but quickly sidestepped the question and emphasized keeping the focus on basketball.

“I think, for us, it’s not really a discussion we really have in our locker room,” Clark said. “I think it’s for leagues and the governing bodies to work with their athletes to find solutions, but our focus is on basketball. That’s what we talk about and how we can get wins, and, obviously, we didn’t do that tonight.”

Many who supported Cunningham for her comments, such as Megyn Kelly, were aggrieved by Clark sitting the debate out.

Is it ‘shut up and dribble’ or not?

Now, comedian Andrew Schulz is supporting Clark, comparing her response to the one conservative pundits called for from black athletes on the Black Lives Matter movement.

“Bro, it was so unfair what they did to Caitlin Clark,” Schulz said. “They asked her at the press conference. She’s like, you know, that’s up to the league and the people in the league to figure out those rules. That’s not up to us.

“Like, she literally did the thing that every, like, conservative pundit was asking all the Black athletes to do around Black Lives Matter. Remember, they were like, just shut up and dribble. She literally shuts up and dribbles, and then all the pundits like, you coward, how dare you not say— So it was bullsh*t on the other end. It’s like, do you want athletes to do nothing but play ball, or do you want them to be, like, involved in politics or whatever this kind of culture war is?”

Portnoy isn’t the first one to take this stance; Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy called Kelly an “absolute moron” for her dissatisfaction with Clark’s answer.