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It’s a story arc that’s become common during Caitlin Clark’s rookie WNBA season: She’s on the wrong end of a hard foul or play, defenders online cry foul and others stake out the stances defending whoever might’ve bumped, knocked down, hit or, in this case, poked Clark in the eye. That’s what has unfolded, in part, after Clark got an inadvertent poke in the eye from Connecticut Sun guard DiJonai Carrington during Game 1 of a playoff series between the Suns and Indiana Fever. But both players were emphatic after the fact: There was nothing untoward on the play, just a mishap that comes with the…

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