Ryan Clark admits fault for taking personal shots at Robert Griffin III amid Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese drama

Ryan Clark and Robert Griffin III had a war of words on social media over the past couple of days. It all stemmed due to of a hot take Griffin III made about this past week’s Caitlin Clark–Angel Reese debate.

Griffin declared unequivocally that Reese “hates” Caitlin Clark following an on-court dust-up between the two WNBA superstars in last Sunday’s Indiana Fever-Chicago Sky season-opener. Clark took exception and chastised his former Washington Redskins — now the Commanders — teammate in a Pivot video he posted to X/Twitter Monday.

Within his overall point about not denigrating or villainizing Reese, Clark cited Griffin’s interracial marriage to wife Grete, who is white, while opining about why he might have a negative opinion about the former LSU superstar. Griffin, who has his own podcast with his wife, fired back in kind, calling out Clark for attacking his family and his marriage rather than addressing what he described as a pure “sports opinion” about Reese.

As tensions continued to boil, and their personal argument reached corners of the internet they never intended, Clark tried to put the situation to bed on Friday. He admitted to his fault in the matter, apologizing to Griffin III and his family for any perceived shot.

“The talk of the week has been the back and forth between myself and RGIII. All of it started over an Angel Reese-take that he felt was a sports-take that I didn’t feel that way about. I felt it was away from the court. I felt that it was away from basketball, and because of the personal feelings I have about RGIII, I took a take that was personal to another person and made it personal to myself. I shouldn’t have done that,” Clark stated, via The Pivot.

“I shouldn’t have brought his wife into an equation, even though, in my mind, before speaking about her, I processed as much as I possibly could to speak of her in a way that was positive, trying to make sure it only illustrated a point about the way that he approached Angel Reese. In that, in some ways, and to some people, I probably missed the mark.

“I have a lot of experience with RGIII. I know some things about him personally. I’m not going to say that we are close. I’m not going to say that we are friends. But those things, already imprinted in my mind, those feelings, already things that have developed over our experiences together, over some things that he had said to me, done to me, probably some things I said to him, they played a part in how I felt.

“Now, he’s done some things that I haven’t commented on, because I didn’t want or need to attack it. In this case, I wanted to defend a young black woman, which ended up being an attack on him, he felt, or at least, he said, an attack on his family. That was never the case, or never the intent of mine.”

All told, Ryan Clark and Robert Griffin III won’t be sending each other Christmas cards this year. Still, it’s nice to see them try to put their beef in the past, at least for the time-being. It certainly spiraled out of control over the last couple of days.

— On3’s Alex Byington contributed to this article.