Editors’ note, May 18 at 7:11 p.m. ET: An earlier version of this story misstated that the incorrect graphic shown below was produced by the WNBA. In fact, a local broadcast was responsible for creating the graphic.
The 2025 WNBA season officially kicked off this past weekend with plenty of entertaining matchups featuring marquee stars like Napheesa Collier, Paige Bueckers and Caitlin Clark.
The league's opening weekend wasn't without some on-court controversy, however, as Clark received her first flagrant of the season for her hard foul on Angel Reese in the Indiana Fever's blowout win over the Chicago Sky.
Off the court, too, fans noticed some embarrassing mistakes made in a graphic broadcast during a WNBA game.
During Saturday night's broadcast of the Seattle Storm vs. Phoenix Mercury, a graphic listed the accomplishments of some of the top-performing players thus far. Sparks guard Kelsey Plum, for example, had just broken the league record for the most points in a season opener with 37.
Other players around the league got their flowers, too, but there were two egregious typos: Collier's and Clark's names were spelled wrong. The graphic spelled them as "Naphessa Collier" and "Caitlyn Clark."
We gotta do better dawg pic.twitter.com/51PDMs8GM5
— Chris Williamson (@CWilliamson44) May 18, 2025
Rookie mistake.
Thankfully, it didn't seem to take too much away from Collier's and Clark's respective feats. The Minnesota Lynx star and reigning Defensive Player of the Year put up 34 points in her team's win while Clark notched her third career triple-double (20 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists). Both players are expected to be in the mix for the MVP race this year.
Fans collectively wagged their fingers at the glaring spelling blunder on just the second day of the new league year.
Spelling names wrong, not giving visual graphics at the very least.
— Renee (@NameisRenee) May 18, 2025
Just words to read off from their broadcast. https://t.co/13U81AsdKf
Left DB off the list and misspelled CC's name😬 https://t.co/OKgUlK4Sdk
— Amber (@outspokenACE) May 18, 2025
How hard is it to spell names correctly? Also I know they are highlighting winners but the reigning MVP dropping 31&16 and getting 100 double-doubles could get a little love 😕 https://t.co/o0AOsmsvt9
— RunToTheSun (@RunToTheSun_) May 18, 2025
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This article was originally published on www.si.com as Embarrassing Mistake on Caitlin Clark Graphic Ripped After WNBA Season Opener.
