After Robert Griffin III Weighed in on Angel Reese, Ryan Clark Issued a Fiery Response
Ryan Clark made things personal when discussing Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark.
Published May 20 2025, 10:02 a.m. ET
The ongoing rivalry between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese got off to an explosive start at the beginning of the WNBA season. Caitlin committed a flagrant foul against Angel to prevent her from scoring, and things escalated quickly from there. In the days that followed, sports commentators of all kinds weighed in on the issue and had a variety of different perspectives.
Robert Griffin III may not have been a professional basketball player, but he nonetheless weighed in on the rivalry between them. Ryan Clark issued a response to RGIII's take, and now, the two of them are in a war of words, and many want to know what Ryan actually said. Here's what we know.
What did Ryan Clark say about RGIII?
It all started when RGIII posted on X (formerly Twitter) about the foul Caitlin committed on Angel during their first game of the 2025 season.
“After watching Caitlin Clark’s flagrant foul on Angel Reese and the aftermath, there is no way Angel Reese can continue the lie that she doesn’t dislike Caitlin Clark,” Griffin wrote. “I know what hatred looks like. Angel Reese HATES Caitlin Clark. Not some basketball rivalry hate either. Hate.”
During a May 19 episode of The Pivot, Ryan responded to RGIII's take on the situation, suggesting that it was influenced by race.
"When RGIII jumps onto the hate train or the angry train, it now follows what we saw from Keith Olbermann, what we saw from Dave Portnoy, as they poured onto Angel Reese to make her the villain, and Caitlin Clark heroic or hero story," Ryan said in the clip, which he promoted on X.
"The one thing we know about RG3 is he’s not having conversations at his home about what Black women have to endure in this country. About what young Black women and athletes like Angel Reese have had to deal with being on the opposite side of Caitlin Clark’s rise and ascension into stardom," he continued.
Ryan was referring to RGIII's multiple marriages to white women, and further suggesting that those marriages made him ill-equipped to discuss the racial dynamics at play here.
"You haven’t had opportunities to have those conversations to educate you on what they’re feeling, what Black women deal with, what they’re seeing when they think of a young Angel Reese," Ryan continued. "And the whole time that he’s mimicking Angel Reese and bobbing his head and moving his neck while he’s doing this whole piece, his wife is in the back amening and clapping.”
RGIII responded with comments of his own.
Following Ryan's comments, RGIII posted on X again, suggesting that his ESPN co-worker was way out of line.
"There's a line you don't cross in life and Ryan Clark sprinted past it," RGIII wrote. "It is wildly inappropriate, wrong, and extremely low to weaponize and attack a person’s wife, marriage, and their family because you disagree with a sports take."
This feud might not be over yet, but things are already getting heated.