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Before an impressive 106-92 victory over the New York Liberty, Indiana Fever head coach Stephanie White delivered an impassioned speech in which she proclaimed, "The hate, the fear-mongering, the divisiveness, the stuff that's trying to hijack our league will not win."
The comments came after she received backlash from what she called "an online community that's trying to create narratives that simply don't exist" that came after her for her initial comments DiJonai Carrington's hard foul on Sophie Cunningham.
"We are united. We are connected. We will not be divided," White said Tuesday. "Every day, these women put their [expletive] on the line. Every day, when they go low, we go high. Love will win, grace will win, humility will win, and kindness will win. I stand by them. I will always stand by them. Everybody else can go to hell."
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White initially suggested Carrington didn't have ill intent when delivering a hard foul on Cunningham that saw her ejected from the Fever's game against the Chicago Sky over the weekend.
Not long after the coach's initial comment, the lieutenant governor of Indiana even called for White to be fired. The head coach was also booed during Tuesday night's pregame introductions at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, which rubbed star guard Caitlin Clark the wrong way.
"It's tough," Clark said. "Like, that's my head coach. I hated that our fans booed her before the game. That made me a little sick, to be honest. ... That's our head coach, and we're going to ride for her and we're always going to have her back," she said.
Indiana sits at No. 4 in the WNBA standings.
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