We’ve seen Rachel DeMita in Courtside Club giving out her perspective on the latest WNBA news, but there’s a new feat unlocked! She’s now in the middle of the Diana Taurasi vs. Caitlin Clark storm. Thanks to a flood of fan comments and tweets, the Courtside Club host learned she had made a cameo in the Taurasi documentary… in a way she never intended.

Well, the controversy comes from Diana Taurasi’s three-part documentary, simply titled Taurasi, which recently dropped on Amazon Prime Video. The series follows her journey from shooting hoops in her driveway to her UConn days, her legendary WNBA and overseas career, and finally, her official retirement in 2025. But what really grabbed fans wasn’t the championships or gold medals — it was a segment on the Caitlin Clark vs. Diana Taurasi narrative. The doc reminded everyone of Taurasi’s infamous warning to Caitlin Clark on ESPN with Scott Van Pelt, coming right as CC was set to jump from college to the pros: “Reality is coming. You look superhuman playing against some 18-year-olds, but you’re going to come play with some grown women that have been playing professional basketball for a long time.”

But Amazon didn’t stop there — it shaped the narrative to fit a more dramatic angle. No, that’s not me saying it, that’s Rachel DeMita herself. On a recent episode of her Courtside Club podcast, DeMita revealed: “I have to admit I hadn’t watched it… When I saw this, my first reaction was, wow. Okay.”  The surprise? Her clip appeared in a montage of people supposedly “talking mad smack” about Taurasi after the Reality is coming comment. The thing here is that Rachel never criticized the GOAT.

“From the beginning, I was one of the only people who defended Diana Taurasi for those comments. I essentially said, you got to know Diana Taurasi to understand this is just how she is. She’s uber competitive. I have been watching Diana Taurasi since she was playing at UConn“. Rachel DeMita further clarified, “I was kind of surprised when they put my clip in there because I was not one of the people who was saying negative things about Diana Taurasi. And there were a lot of Caitlin Clark fans — and as you guys know, I’m a huge Caitlin Clark fan — who were mad at me for defending Diana Taurasi the way that I was.”

And she’s got receipts. When the Phoenix started banking on the supposed rivalry last year, DeMita didn’t even think it warranted that. “I think this is too early to jump the gun,” she’d said back then, as she recollected. However, she also thought that “rivalries are good for the game… Good job on the Mercury to kind of hype up this game.” Understandable why Rachel feels her words were taken out of context to fit someone else’s narrative.

And, to be fair, Taurasi was right — every rookie has to adjust to the WNBA’s physicality. But by April 2025, the tables had turned. On The Bird and Taurasi Show with Sue Bird and Caitlin Clark, after CC congratulated her on retirement, Taurasi leaned into the humor: “Unfortunately, reality is coming to me now.” So that’s exactly how Taurasi is. For DeMita, though, the frustration isn’t about hurt feelings — it’s about accuracy.

“It goes to show you… with these documentaries… they can just use anything out of context and use it in a way that fits their narrative,” she said, noting that Amazon’s cut pushed the angle that “everybody hated Diana Taurasi online.” Oh, and as if that wasn’t enough, the credits misspelled her name, and the clip — originally from YouTube — was labeled as TikTok. Talk about adding insult to injury. But Amazon’s creative editing wasn’t the only thing fueling the Taurasi-Clark chatter!

Sophie Cunningham has jumped in too…

After six seasons alongside Taurasi in Phoenix and now sharing the court with Clark in Indiana, Cunningham has seen firsthand what separates legends from the rest. “D.T. will always be my GOAT,” she said, praising Taurasi’s obsessive approach — from the weight room to rehab to the relentless offseason grind. “I’ve never met someone who thinks the game how she thinks.”

And in her eyes, Clark is cut from the same cloth. “The way Caitlin thinks of the game, that’s a really close second. They’re always ten plays ahead… they’re on a whole different wavelength.” Coming from someone who’s soaked up Taurasi’s basketball IQ for years, that’s no small praise.

For Sophie, it’s not about Clark copying Taurasi’s style — it’s about a shared mental blueprint that’s nearly impossible to teach. So while the editing might have tried to fuel something that didn’t exist, the players closest to both women are making it clear: this is more about mutual greatness than any beef.