Caitlin Clark just completed her third season in the WNBA, once again failing to make any notable run in the postseason, crashing out in the first round for the second time. For many of Clark’s supporters, especially Linda Cohn, this is definitely not a big deal yet. But some, like NBC News, have already begun to question the greatness of the player that people say Clark is, with a post they put out on X questioning her lack of playoff heroics.

Linda Cohn, in her reaction to the NBC News post, was quite displeased, describing it as “crazy,” a “stupid post,” and something that “drove her nuts.” For her, Caitlin Clark is definitely still early in her career and has not even played 100 games in the WNBA. Her strongest defense of Clark was the fact that it took a basketball legend like Michael Jordan considerably longer to get his first championship himself.

“This point that NBC News has made by this stupid post,” Cohn said in a video she released on her YouTube channel on Monday. “Can I remind NBC News, who is probably not locked into the WNBA every day of this season and the postseason, first of all, Caitlin Clark has played somewhere, I think, about 90, 92, 94 games, something like that, in the WNBA? She was hurt last year.

“Michael Jordan, you might have heard of him. He played, I believe, over 500 games before winning his first championship. So, can we lay off the ‘What’s wrong with her,’ and ‘She’s not great until she wins her first championship’ narrative?” she added.

The NBC post in contention insinuated that while Caitlin Clark may already be considered a WNBA megastar, she has yet to produce the kind of postseason moments that are associated with greatness.

“Caitlin Clark is a WBNA megastar for the Indiana Fever, but she has yet to deliver the playoff heroics that is considered the hallmark of greatness,” the post read.

True to the post, Caitlin Clark’s postseason record has not really been the greatest so far. In Caitlin Clark’s first WNBA season in 2024, the Indiana Fever crashed out in the first round of the playoffs. They were, in fact, eliminated in a 2-0 series sweep by the Connecticut Sun, losing the final and deciding game 87-81 in Uncasville, Connecticut.

Across the two games of that first-round playoff series, Caitlin Clark averaged 18.0 points, 8.5 assists, and 5.0 rebounds. While that was quite a respectable performance for a rookie, she did struggle with her efficiency due to the heavy defensive pressure from the veteran Connecticut Sun.

The 2026 playoffs, where the Fever were knocked out by the Las Vegas Aces, actually marked Caitlin Clark’s second active playoff appearance. She missed the entire 2025 WNBA postseason during her second year due to severe injuries. And the team, without her, was eventually knocked out in the second round by the Aces again.

This season’s playoff run was, however, another first-round exit, although the Fever managed to take their series against the Aces to a deciding Game 3. Clark also had quite a solid performance across the three games, judging from her averages of 20.0 points, 9.7 assists, and 4.0 rebounds per game. However, her efficiency was also quite poor, especially in the third game, where she shot 6-of-18 from the field and 3-of-12 from three-point range.

Maybe none of these five playoff games that Caitlin Clark has been part of have produced that defining moment of heroics to propel her team to the next round. But it is definitely still a long way ahead in her career. Perhaps when she is 500 games into her WNBA career without a championship, the criticism can begin to carry more weight.