ESPN's Rocky Day Of Caitlin Clark Coverage Started With A Heated Exchange On 'First Take'

Oh, what's that? You guys didn't get your fill of Caitlin Clark news for the day?

Well, you're in luck, because we have even more for you on this Monday evening. You are welcome!

This one comes courtesy of ESPN's First Take, which took some valuable air time away from LeBron James and the Dallas Cowboys this morning to talk all things Caitlin Clark. 

Everything was going just fine, until, of course, it wasn't. The show went south in a hurry when Stephen A. Smith and Monica McNutt (what a name!) got into a little squabble over just how much First Take covers the WNBA. 

Like all of us, they haven't … until Caitlin Clark, of course. 

"Who talks about the WNBA, who talks about women, who talks about women’s sports more than ‘First Take’?" Smith asked during the segment.

Well …

Stephen A. Smith takes on water over WNBA, Caitlin Clark coverage 

You wanna talk about checking all the boxes … First Take CRUSHED it this morning. 

How about being a black man?!

What a little twist that took, huh? And how about poor Molly, who looks, frankly, like I do at this point with all the Caitlin Clark stuff: defeated. Just defeated. 

She wants nothing to do with any of it. Couldn't cut to break quick enough. Is there a bottle of Vodka under that desk, Molly? 

Grab it! Lord knows I would. 

Look, it's June 3 on the sports calendar. Let's just be real here for a second. We've got nothing else to talk about. ESPN doesn't care about baseball despite being the network for the College World Series, so that's out the window. 

The Lakers are out of it. The Rangers are out of it. The Knicks are out of it. Has First Take ever talked about hockey? No shot. 

So, this is what you get on June 3 – Monica McNutt getting pissed at Stephen A. Smith for not talking about the WNBA three years ago, which is funny, and Molly and Shannon just holding on for dear life. 

It sort of reminds me of that scene from Back to the Future where Marty jams out at the Enchantment under the Sea dance, and then realizes at the end that he was playing a song from 30 years in the future. 

That's society right now with the WNBA:

Nope, we are NOT ready for full-time WNBA talk. We've proven that over the course of like two weeks. 

We've dabbled in it, things got heated, and now Monica McNutt is taking shots at Stephen A. on his own show and Pat McAfee is throwing around the B-word a few hours later. 

Hell of a day at the World Wide (Woke) Leader. 

Chin up, Bristol. Training camp is next month!