Angel McCoughtry Plotting WNBA Return, I’ll Protect Caitlin Clark!

If Caitlin Clark‘s teammates will not safeguard her from inexpensive shots on the court, Angel McCoughtry will … saying she’s down to sign with the Indiana Fever in a return to the league exactly where she starred for years!

37-year-old McCoughtry joined Babcock on the “TMZ Sports” Television show (airs weekdays on FS1) … days soon after Chicago Sky guard Chennedy Carter‘s physique verify of Clark sparked a conversation about the basketball planet.

Angel believes it is time for Caitlin (and all teammates across the WNBA) to safeguard each and every other.

“Take care of your players. All of y’all. I do not care who it is. If somebody is dragging your player down by the neck, I am in your face. ‘What the hell are you undertaking?’ Hey, we can go have lunch later, but correct now we’re competing. Never grab my player like that.”

McCoughtry does know of a player who WOULD stand up for her teammates … Angel herself.

“A person sign me! I will make positive, I am a vet and I will make positive I defend and do what I gotta do.”

And, Angel — the former quantity 1 general choose in 2009, 5x NBA All-Star, and 2x scoring champ — is not kidding about coming back. She’s dead critical.

“I am essentially waiting to go back [to the WNBA]. Somebody, I am right here! Contact me!” AM mentioned. “C’mon, I am nevertheless dunking the basketball!”

As for exactly where she’d like to go … we asked that extremely query.

“I would appreciate to play on a group that can contest for a championship or be a vet to enable the young ones … like Caitlin Clark. She demands that vet about her arm just pushing her by means of the season.”

We also talked to McCoughtry about the Angel Reese and Clark rivalry (Angel sees it as the WNBA’s version of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird,) the enormous spike in WNBA consideration, and no matter if the CC hate is race-associated.