ESPN's Monica McNutt laments coverage of Caitlin Clark hard foul: 'Are we really leading sports with this?'

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The hard foul delivered from Chicago Sky guard Chennedy Carter to Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark garnered a lot of attention across the sports world last week.

So much so, ESPN’s "First Take" led with it. Stephen A. Smith, Shannon Sharpe and Monica McNutt all had something to say about the incident. McNutt wondered at the time why the first topic on the debate show was a foul.

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Monica McNutt attends the "Shattered Glass: A WNBPA Story" New York premiere at WNBPA Offices on Jan. 29, 2024 in New York City. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)

On Monday, in an appearance on "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, McNutt again expressed some tinge of frustration about how that was covered.

"The conversation Jon, it started about this foul over the weekend," she said. "Chennedy Carter for the Chicago Sky fouled Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever. And I’m not gonna lie to you, Jon, if I take you through my day that morning. I get the call, or the text rather. And I’m like, ‘Are we really leading sports with this?’. Are we really leading sports with a foul? In sports? Alright, fine, let’s just do it.

"So we have the conversation with colleagues and friends, Stephen A. Smith and Shannon Sharpe. My larger point in the conversation was the tenor and the prevailing narrative that has been created about this season’s WNBA play is that it’s the league versus Caitlin Clark. And that is just absolutely false. 

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Chicago Sky guard Chennedy Carter, #7, is whistled for a flagrant foul for knocking Indiana