Caitlin Clark’s season is over. The Sun eliminated Clark’s Fever on Wednesday. For many viewers, they have no interest in the WNBA season if Clark doesn’t play.

ESPN commentator David Dennis Jr. hopes that is the case.

“I hope the people who say they’ll stay away from the WNBA now that CC is gone actually keep their promise,” Dennis posted on X on Thursday. Let’s enjoy things.”

In other words, an ESPN employee is encouraging the vast majority of WNBA viewers to stop watching the WNBA playoffs, which ESPN exclusively broadcasts.

There continues to be a drastic difference in interest between WNBA games with Clark and games without Clark. This season, the games Clark attended averaged 1.178 million viewers. Games without them averaged just 394,000 viewers.

That’s a difference of 199 percent.

The loss of Clark is significant for the WNBA and ESPN. No team sport in America is more dependent on one player for national viewership than Clark’s WNBA. She is far more important to the WNBA than Patrick Mahomes is to the NFL or LeBron James to the NBA.

If Clark’s fans take Dennis’ advice and stop watching the playoffs, the difference in advertising revenue for ESPN could be in the tens of millions of dollars.

Dennis’ reason for scaring away fans is also amusing: He claims Clark’s fans are “toxic.” In reality, their fans are just passionate and resent the league-wide treatment of their favorite player.

Take David Dennis for example.

This blooper appeared on ESPN in June and shamed Caitlin Clark for not standing up for Chennedy Carter and the other black women who cheaply shot her on the court.

According to Dennis, white women are born into “privilege” and therefore have a “moral obligation” to defend people of color no matter what – apparently even when those people of color call them harsh names and share nasty tweets about them.

No, you idiot, Clark has no obligation to defend someone who tries to hurt and belittle her. Black people don’t get a pass for mistreating white people just because they’re black.

Additionally, Clark’s fans are not responsible for the “toxicity” that surrounds them. They are ghouls like Dennis.

The toxicity surrounding Caitlin Clark comes almost entirely from black people in the WNBA and the media, who are struggling to accept that a straight white girl from Iowa has risen to the top of a historically black sport.

For months, players and television hosts have tried to diminish Clark’s popularity as a product of white supremacy. Stephen A. Smith tried it on Thursday. It’s a lie. Clark is a standout player who rewrote the record books in college and had one of the most impressive rookie seasons to date.

Plus, her style of play is captivating – similar to Steph Curry’s.

Admittedly, this Dennis character is not up for an honest discussion. In fact, he only works at ESPN because his father was a civil rights activist. He is the epitome of a DEI worker.

Imagine a less talented Bomani Jones unable to pronounce words correctly. This is David Dennis Jr.

And he’s lucky. Um, privileged.

Imagine if a white ESPN employee told it well over half of WNBA viewers this season no longer want to watch the playoffs, which air on ESPN. He would be immediately reprimanded for acting contrary to the company’s interests.