Sheryl Swoopes brutally trolled by Pro Basketball Hall of Fame over Caitlin Clark feud

The Pro Basketball Hall of Fame appear to have directly trolled WNBA legend Sheryl Swoopes with their curious placement of a Caitlin Clark sign.

Swoopes made several digs at the Indiana Fever star before and during the Rookie of the Year’s stunning debut season in the big leagues.

The Iowa native, however, preferred to do her talking on the court and averaged 19.2 points per game in addition to 8.4 assists, 5.7 rebounds and 1.3 steals to go with 41.7 per cent shooting from the field.

Angel Reese’s injury prompted a near-unanimous Rookie of the Year voting tally for Clark, with only one voter preferring another player to the 22-year-old.

Clark’s performances even earned some recent praise from her biggest critic Swoopes in a big U-turn from the four-time champion and three-time WNBA MVP, but that has not stopped the Basketball Hall of Fame’s playful positioning.

Swoopes was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016 and as a result of her incredible career, has a banner hanging inside the Massachusetts venue. However, carefully placed under that banner now is a poster of Clark proudly holding a basketball in her Fever kit.

The ribbing comes after several doubting messages from Swoopes to Clark, beginning during the latter’s college days when Swoopes claimed that her NCAA D1 scoring record “wasn’t legitimate” because she was ‘a 25-year-old player in her fifth year’.

Swoopes was exaggerating because Clark was 22 and in her fourth year at the University of Iowa, before arriving to the WNBA and kicking off a huge popularity boom, with viewers eager to see her in action.

But the 53-year-old remained unimpressed and claimed that Clark’s collegiate success was down to her taking “about 40 shots a game”.

Clark spearheaded the Fever’s incredible post-Olympics form but was not even mentioned by Swoopes in her praise of the team, instead namedropping Lexie Hull, Kelsey Mitchell and Aliyah Boston while ignoring the superstar sharing the court with them.

Having also declared that Clark was not dominant during her first WNBA season, someone at the Hall of Fame seemingly took matters into their own hands by taunting Swoopes under her banner at the museum.

However, the tide could yet be turning as Swoopes offered some rare positivity despite Fever’s first-round play-off exit.

"I just thought what Caitlin was able to do coming into the league this season… she was just crazy," Swoopes admitted on the Queens of the Court podcast. "Just shooting the basketball, her ability to put the ball where it needs to be when it needed to be there."