Do people only like Caitlin Clark because she's white?

As insane as it might be to read that line, it's apparently a very real belief Las Vegas Aces forward A'ja Wilson has. Clark makes her WNBA regular season debut in Connecticut Tuesday night with the Fever against the Sun, and you'd think all the talk would be about the game.

It's not. Instead, Wilson has decided to make the Indiana Fever rookie being the most popular women's basketball player in the country about race.

"I think it’s a huge thing. I think a lot of people may say it’s not about black and white, but to me, it is. It really is because you can be top notch at what you are as a black woman, but yet maybe that’s something that people don’t want to see," Wilson told The Associated Press when asked about what role race might play with Clark's appeal.

She further added, "They don’t see it as marketable, so it doesn’t matter how hard I work. It doesn’t matter what we all do as black women, we’re still going to be swept underneath the rug. That’s why it boils my blood when people say it’s not about race because it is."