Elle Duncan apologizes for criticizing Sheryl Swoopes over out of context Caitlin Clark comments

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3. Thank you and your post is excellent as well and

you are right to point out the questionable emphasis by the media on triple double/double double. Back in the day of Oscar Robertson etc. nobody even talked like that. Media creation mostly. ESPN has been one of the worst for slanting reporting to fit a desired narrative. I'll give an example that was fairly standard for most media in fact.

The first South Sudan game. I am a fan of Lebron however the reporting of the last half minute of the game was atrocious. Yes he made the drive that put the US team ahead. The media screamed all about how Lebron won the game for the US team. But they entirely ignored giving credit for what happened after he scored. South Sudan had time on the clock and was able to inbound the ball and their player attempted a floater into the post and Anthony Davis played great defense and challenged the shot forcing the shooter to have to go high off the glass. Davis did so without fouling. Another South Sudan player got the rebound deep in the post and had time for a put-back or dunk but Anthony Edwards and Derrick White played great defense and stripped him of the ball again without fouling and after the strip there was still 1.3 seconds on the clock when Davis again comes into the play and grabs the loose ball.

But the media almost without exception credited "winning the game" to Lebron. Only part of the story. Without a great last 8 seconds of defense South Sudan would likely have been the winning team. The video highlights were all about the Lebron drive to the basket. But nowhere did I see a slow motion play of the defensive stand and a breakdown and explanation of how the players involved positioned themselves and then the actions they took.