Chennedy Carter REFUSES to answer questions about her BODYCHECK on Caitlin Clark after Indiana Fever beats Chicago Sky

Chennedy Carter refused to explain - or answer questions about - her brutal bodycheck on Caitlin Clark following the Indiana Fever's WNBA victory over the Chicago Sky on Saturday.

Carter shoved Clark to the ground, with television replays appearing to show her yelling 'you b***h' at Clark before knocking her rival to the ground.

After the game, however, Carter insisted she did not trash talk Clark. But the guard resisted invitation to discuss the incident.

'I ain’t answering no Caitlin Clark questions,' Carter said at the podium. 'I don’t know what she said. I didn’t say anything.'  

It wasn't immediately clear how Clark had provoked Carter, if at all, before the Fever star was knocked to the ground.

Clark ended up having the last laugh - her team holding on for a one-point win and the 71-70 triumph was the team's first home win of the season.

There were 15 seconds left on the clock in the third quarter and when time was up, Clark gave her reaction to ESPN immediately after.

'That's just not a basketball play but I've got to play through it, that's what basketball is about at this level,' she said. 

The incident provoked shock on social media - USWNT soccer legend Carli Lloyd slammed Carter, calling her jealous.

Replying to Taylor Twellman, another ex- USA soccer player, who shared the video with the caption: 'Why?! I don't get it', Lloyd wrote: 'What you call living rent free. Jealousy at its finest.'

Ahead of the game Clark, the No 1 pick in this year's WNBA Draft, said players were repeatedly getting away with fouls against her. 

While the wider claims by Clark have been debated, Carter did appear lucky to escape without a more severe punishment. 

Clark, meanwhile, speaking midweek after her 30-point game in the loss to Los Angeles Sparks, said: 'I think everybody's physical with me. 

'They get away with things that, probably, other people don't get away with. It's tough.'

Saturday's game was the first time Clark came up against her college rival Angel Reese, who was the seventh pick in the WNBA Draft and taken by Chicago.