Fever stars Aliyah Boston, Kelsey Mitchell react to Stephanie White being booed

INDIANAPOLIS (WRTV) — Fever head coach Stephanie White received boos from fans at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Tuesday before the team’s game against the New York Liberty.

Caitlin Clark voiced her support for White after the team’s win.

On Thursday, Fever stars Aliyah Boston and Kelsey Mitchell also backed their coach.

“I think when you are on your home floor and your team is getting announced and the coach is getting announced, I feel like there is no reason for any of that,” Boston said. “We come out here and we do everything that we can to win and I think Steph (Stephanie White) does a great job with us. We love her and we appreciate her. To hear that, it was really annoying, honestly, and disrespectful. But for us, we kept the main thing the main thing and we said we’re going to come out here and we’re going to get that dub.”

“It kind of threw me for a loop too,” Mitchell said. “I told her to her face, I said, ‘Coach, this is for you,’ in terms of just a sense of confidence, a sense of awareness that you’re not alone. And if anybody knows me, I don’t play that. It really hurt my feelings to see her kind of have emotions in terms of like, not feeling valued and not feeling wanted in a place where she has to coach. At the end of the day, this is her job and she has to show up too, and I think that people don’t really recognize that and I think that it’s our job to remind her, it’s our culture and I think that we have to remind her that our culture is not going to let her fall to the wayside. So I hope she knows that.”

The boos for Stephanie White come after some on social media have criticized her for her response to the flagrant foul on Sophie Cunningham by Sky guard DiJonai Carrington on Saturday.

The Fever are back in action on Friday when they host the Dallas Wings. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.