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The roughness hurled against rookie WNBA star Caitlin Clark comes as no surprise to Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin.

On this morning’s episode of The View, the panel weighed in on a viral video in which Chicago Sky guard Chennedy Carter shoulder-checked Clark to the ground in the Sky’s game against Indiana Fever on Saturday (June 1). The move was ultimately deemed a flagrant foul, prompting Indiana Fever GM Lin Dunn to call out the poor treatment of Clark in her first season in the WNBA.

“There’s a difference between tough defense and unnecessary— targeting actions! It needs to stop!” Dunn wrote on X. “The league needs to ‘clean up’ the crap! That’s NOT who this league is!!”

However, Goldberg countered this morning that roughness is, in fact, an expected part of the game.

“Let’s be realistic, OK? This is basketball, OK?” she said. “This happens in basketball all the time. Angel Reese got clotheslined the other day.”

Goldberg continued, “This is, ‘Get out the way or I’ma move you.’ That’s what the game is … A lot of people, however, are reading this as confrontation. But this is not confrontation. They’re not playing on the court. They’re there to win. And just because they’re women, get over yourselves, they’re athletes.”

Hostin, who is a member of the WNBPA board of advocates, chimed in to remind viewers that basketball is a “contact sport.”

“It’s not dainty play. When you’re sitting there [and] you’re watching, sometimes when that happens you think, ‘Ooh, wow. I couldn’t take it,'” she said, though noted that Carter’s shoulder-check was “clearly a flagrant foul.”

Hostin later added, “It’s gonna make them better. It’s gonna make Caitlin better. It’s gonna make Angel better. It’s gonna make the league better.”

Goldberg concluded the Hot Topics segment with one final thought on the subject.

“This is what sports are. They play hard and they play brilliantly,” she said. “Because none of us can beat them. None of us can do what they can do so let’s give them their due. They’re doing their thing.”

The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.