{"id":920481,"date":"2026-07-17T06:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/nbas-silver-says-fevers-clark-has-become-political-football-espn\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T06:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:12:17","slug":"nbas-silver-says-fevers-clark-has-become-political-football-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/nbas-silver-says-fevers-clark-has-become-political-football-espn\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA&#8217;s Silver says Fever&#8217;s Clark has become &#8216;political football&#8217; &#8211; ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football NBA&#8217;s Silver says Fever&#8217;s Clark has become &#8216;political football&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0ESPNAdam Silver calls Caitlin Clark a \u2018political football,\u2019 sidesteps suspension report\u00a0\u00a0The New York TimesSources: Silver persuaded Engelbert to suspend Thomas after Clark incident\u00a0\u00a0Sports Business JournalNBA Commissioner Adam Silver reportedly convinced WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert to suspend Alyssa Thomas\u00a0\u00a0Yahoo SportsNBA boss coerced Alyssa Thomas suspension&#8230;  <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMioAFBVV95cUxNQW1NRy0yT3Q3c1ZDVUhZOHRjZEU3b1Bfenl6QURYN3RST1NZRjdtQk9nMzVvV3RjbDluMjlrWjFYMUthcDNWM1dSRWxyaWpuREJqbWowXzJhdDNBWkFBa2VvRU1yX0xkdGktcWI0alpxSXIzSnk2RmJyeEV3UHZnbjlvMGR5TWFaZzEtUjRlWVIxWThDRDdLcER4c2JrVHhh?oc=5\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> Tami Fetzer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA&#8217;s Silver says Fever&#8217;s Clark has become &#8216;political football&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0ESPNAdam Silver calls Caitlin Clark a \u2018political football,\u2019 sidesteps suspension report\u00a0\u00a0The New York TimesSources: Silver persuaded Engelbert to suspend Thomas after Clark incident\u00a0\u00a0Sports Business JournalNBA Commissioner Adam Silver reportedly convinced WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert to suspend Alyssa Thomas\u00a0\u00a0Yahoo SportsNBA boss coerced Alyssa Thomas suspension&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":920482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790,28219,23917],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","category-nbas","category-silver"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}