INDIANAPOLIS — Three days after the Indiana Fever 's season ended with a loss in the WNBA semifinals, coach Stephanie White appeared on sports radio show Query & Company with some strong words of support for her injured star player Caitlin Clark whose name has been swirling amid the league's contentious collective bargaining agreement with its players' association.

"I hate it all for Caitlin. You know, she's a 23-year-old kid who loves to play this game who is a pawn in a lot of other people's games and a lot of other people's narratives," White told Query on Friday's show on 107.5 The Fan . "And I hate that for her."

In her exit interview earlier this week, players' association vice president Napheesa Collier of the Minnesota Lynx relayed a conversation she had with WNBA commissio

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