Christine Brennan lashes out at Defector after column says she’s ‘fully lost it over Caitlin Clark’

As USA Today columnist Christine Brennan continues her tirade over the WNBA’s handling of Caitlin Clark and the new generation of fans she brought to the league, she has increasingly made herself more central to the story. Last week, the independent sports outlet Defector published a column titled “Christine Brennan Has Fully Lost It Over Caitlin Clark.” In the piece, writer Giri Nathan criticized Brennan’s insistence on centering all coverage of the WNBA’s current moment on Clark, a perspective he said was flawed and “warped.” Brennan has, mostly on X, recently offered vaguely sourced claims — about A’ja Wilson, the…