How will this beef end?
Is it friendship over for WNBA legends Nancy Lieberman and Sheryl Swoopes? In an appearance last Sunday on ‘The Stephen A. Smith Show,’ Lieberman revealed that her relationship with Swoopes is “not happening at this point.” The root of the feud between Lieberman and Swoopes involves the latter’s critical stance on Caitlin Clark, even seemingly refusing to credit the success of the Indiana Fever and the incredible popularity of the WNBA to the former Iowa Hawkeyes star.
Lieberman explained to Smith that Swoopes got upset when she tried to remind the three-time WNBA champion that it’s ok to share opinions about Caitlin Clark as long as the takes are backed up by facts.
“I called her as a friend and I said ‘You can say whatever you want, you can have your own opinion about anybody but you do have to get the statistics right’. I mean, facts matter … It’s ok to have a difference of opinions,” Lieberman said.
“She got upset with me on the phone and I was like, ‘Sheryl, I’m not doing anything to hurt you.’’
However, their conversation didn’t seem to have a positive result.
“So our relationship pretty much is not happening at this point,” admitted Lieberman.
“I tried to talk to her at the Final Four, she didn’t want to talk to me. My life is going to be good or great with or without Sheryl Swoopes in my life. I’d rather have her in it.”
It did not take long for Swoopes to issue a response to the comments made by Lieberman.
“Now here you go! I get what you trying to do wit ya boy @stephenasmith but it ain’t working,” Swoopes posted on X (the social media platform formerly known as Twitter).
“You know good and well what happened. And ditto…my life is good without you too(and him). You wanna go there?”
