NaLyssa Smith played alongside Caitlin Clark as a member of the Indiana Fever for each of the last three WNBA seasons. The 24-year-old forward is currently hooping overseas during the offseason and found herself at the middle of a bench-clearing fight in China on Thursday.
Fortunately, all of the players involved with the dust-up were quickly separated by their teammates and officials before things got out of hand.
Smith, 24, was drafted No. 2 overall by the Fever out of Baylor in 2022. However, the W does not pay its players enough money to make ends meet for the entire year so a large number of athletes are forced to play in a different country from October through April and she is one of them.
NaLyssa Smithrecently signed with the Zhejiang Golden Bulls of the Women’s Chinese Basketball Association (WCBA) after playing the last few years in Turkey. This is her first season in China and it got off to …