Doris Burke evoked recent Caitlin Clark discourse during a Mavericks foul in the NBA Finals

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After a hard foul on Kristaps Porzingis during Game 5 of the NBA Finals, ESPN's Doris Burke made a spot-on observation.

Porzingis, who has played limited action during the series for Boston due to multiple injuries, hit the floor after he was met with overly physical defense from Dallas forward P.J. Washington.

You can watch the sequence as it unfolded below, but it didn't look fun for Porzingis and he seemed reasonably and expectedly upset afterward:

As the broadcast showed a replay of the events, though, Burke noted that such a foul probably would have caused a week-long debate had it happened to WNBA rookie Caitlin Clark.

Recent fouls on Clark have, unfortunately, stirred far too many debates in the basketball world.

You can listen to Burke's call, which was just so perfectly on the nose:

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