Caitlin Clark diss: Jeff Teague claps back at Nancy Lieberman, takes shot at son

Jeff Teague responded after Nancy Lieberman took a shot at the former NBA point guard over his recent comments about Caitlin Clark. The former WNBA player, coach and Hall of Famer called out Teague on the 3 and One podcast for claiming Clark was “good but not that good,” saying his NBA career was “serviceable” at best.

Teague eventually saw a clip of the podcast and responded in the comments on Instragram. He claimed that Lieberman’s comments about him were “kind of true” but compared his NBA career to her son T.J. Cline playing in the Big3 league.

“My career was kind of like your son’s in the Big3 only thing was my mom didn’t draft me,” Teague wrote before adding “nah I’m joking s/o y’all.”

Teague also doubled down on his original take, saying that he thought Kelsey Mitchell was the best player on the Fever, not Clark. Mitchell has been leading the team in scoring this season with 20.0 points per game, though Clark has missed more than half of the games due to various injuries.

Teague played 12 seasons in the NBA, primarily with the Atlanta Hawks, and was an All-Star during the 2014-15 season. He put up career averages of 12.2 points and 5.6 assists per game while shooting 44.4% from the floor a 36.0% from 3-point range.

“I don’t agree with Jeff Teague, who I read something today about said Caitlin Clark, she’s just a good player. She’s not a great player,” Lieberman said. “I love you, you weren’t a great player. You were serviceable. I know you made the All-Star team one time.”

To Nancy Lieberman’s point, while Teague put up solid numbers and was a starter for many years, he was hardly ever considered one of the league’s premier stars. Meanwhile, Clark already has two All-Star appearances despite playing in the WNBA for just two seasons.

Stephanie White calls injury to Caitlin Clark a ‘blessing in disguise’

Fever coach Stephanie White even described the injury to Clark as a “blessing in disguise” for some of the other players on the team. She argued that, while not ideal, it has forced the team to play more together and allowed some veterans a chance to shine.

“I think it says a lot about this group,” she said. “You know we’ve got a deep team. …I think I said it early when C[lark] was out the very first time, while we don’t like it, sometimes it can be a blessing in disguise, because everybody else finds themselves. And no one is afraid to make the big play, offensively or defensively.

“We’ve got a really good group, that’s unselfish. That want to win. That play well together and for each other and when one person doesn’t have it, somebody else does. And I think it makes us really, really difficult to scout when that happens.”