WNBA players reveal 'super scary' privacy and security fears after Caitlin Clark stalker incident

The women's hoops assemblage has been rocked by the nationalist revelation of Caitlin Clark's stalker. Other players successful the athletics are present speaking up astir their ain fears and experiences with information and privateness breaches. News of Clark's stalker came retired conscionable 1 period aft a antheral pleaded blameworthy to stalking UConn women's hoops prima Paige Bueckers.

Ahead of the opening week of the upstart 3-on-3 league, Unrivaled, galore of the WNBA players participating spoke astir the issue.

Connecticut Sun subordinate DiJonai Carrington, who gave Clark a achromatic oculus successful their playoff bid successful September, told The Associated Press she has received cyberthreats and needs to beryllium connected the lookout for different threats erstwhile she goes retired successful public. 

"It’s ace unfortunate that it’s going on, but I deliberation arsenic the crippled grows, it’s going to proceed to hap due to the fact that immoderate radical are conscionable brainsick and aren’t successful their close caput and request to beryllium held accountable for those things," Carrington said. "But I don’t deliberation it’s going to stop, honestly. We person to bash worldly and spell supra and beyond and effort to support ourselves."

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DiJonai Carrington (21) of the Connecticut Sun plays defence during a crippled against the Indiana Fever during Game 1 of the archetypal circular of the 2024 WNBA Playoffs Sept. 22, 2024, astatine the Mohegan Sun Arena successful Uncasville, Conn.  (Chris Marion/NBAE via Getty Images)

New York Liberty prima Breanna Stewart says she and different players person had to beryllium conscious of however they usage societal media to marque definite they aren't giving distant their whereabouts successful existent time. 

"We person a ton of information here, and you spot them everywhere," Stewart said. "Making definite that whether we station pictures oregon societal media, thing is existent clip due to the fact that that’s erstwhile it’s similar they’re truly capable to fig retired wherever you are."

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Breanna Stewart and her wife, Marta Xargay, were victims during the WNBA Finals successful October, receiving threatening anonymous emails aft Game 1.

Clark's fever teammate, Aliyah Boston, called the conditions she and different players look "super scary."

"It’s ace scary, and I consciousness atrocious for Paige, Caitlin, (Breanna) and everyone’s household due to the fact that that’s not thing that you ever privation to experience," she said. "But I deliberation everyone astir america bash a large occupation of trying to marque definite we consciousness harmless and making definite that they’re responding to everything. If we’re unsure of anything, they are connected it. They cognize precisely what to do."

Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark against the Dallas Wings successful the 2nd fractional successful Indianapolis Sept. 15, 2024.  (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Unrivaled co-founder Napheesa Collier said the league has had meetings with players recently. 

"I deliberation it’s scary. Just naturally, with america being much disposable to people, things similar that happen," Collier said. "We did person a information gathering the different day."

The Texas antheral identified arsenic Clark's alleged stalker, Michael Lewis, entered Marion County Superior Court, leaned backmost successful his seat and told Judge Angela Davis helium was "guilty arsenic charged," earlier this week. 

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Davis suggested to Lewis helium workout his close to stay soundless and entered a not blameworthy plea connected his behalf due to the fact that she wasn’t going to judge thing other successful an archetypal hearing.

Lewis was ordered held connected $50,000 bail and to enactment distant from the Gainbridge Fieldhouse and the Hinkle Fieldhouse, wherever the Fever and the Butler Bulldogs play, respectively. Clark’s boyfriend, Connor McCaffery, is an adjunct with Butler’s men’s hoops team.

Lewis, 55, was charged with stalking and threatening intersexual artillery oregon death, FOX 59 reported, citing tribunal documents. The complaint is simply a felony, and helium could look up to six years successful situation if convicted.

Caitlin Clark of the All Iowa Attack dribbles during an AAU crippled astatine the All Iowa Attack Basketball Fieldhouse April 22, 2017, successful Ames, Iowa. (Luke Lu/Diamond Images via Getty Images)

Lewis allegedly sent Clark sexually explicit messages done his X account. One connection said helium had been driving astir her location aggregate times and encouraged her "not to telephone the instrumentality conscionable yet." He besides allegedly spoke of going to a Fever crippled and sitting down the bench.

Authorities said they talked to Lewis astir the messages Jan. 8, according to the quality station. He reportedly told authorities helium was going to Indianapolis for a abrogation and downplayed the fig of messages helium sent to the WNBA sharpshooter.

"It takes a batch of courageousness for women to travel guardant successful these cases, which is wherefore galore don’t," Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said, via FOX 59. "In doing so, the unfortunate is mounting an illustration for each women who merit to unrecorded and enactment successful Indy without the menace of intersexual violence."

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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