Big3 commentator Rachel DeMita let go after posting Caitlin Clark tweet

The Big3 has no use for Caitlin Clark mania.

Ice Cube’s basketball league fired courtside commentator Rachel DeMita after roughly one year, according to Front Office Sports, with the “final straw” being when DeMita tweeted about Clark’s performance against the Liberty this past Saturday while she was working during a league game.

DeMita, a popular basketball commentator with nearly 279,000 followers on X and at least 1 million on Instagram, posted eight times that day — which she indicated was her birthday — and all involved Clark

The commentator confirmed the news in a video on X, saying she was “terminated” this week after posting about the WNBA.

The Big3, according to a letter DeMita read in her video, was “dismayed and disappointed” by her posts about the competing league during the same time the 3-on-3 basketball league was broadcasting live on Saturday.

DeMita added that she didn’t want to make excuses and she’ll “take [the firing] on the chin.”

Rachel DeMita posted this photo in May of her wearing a Caitlin Clark jersey.
Rachel DeMita posted this photo in May of her wearing a Caitlin
Clark jersey.She quote tweeted at 3:32 p.m. a clip of Clark’s highlights from her return from injury in the win over the Liberty with the caption, “for those who questioned the hype.”

The Big3’s scheduled listed four games that day, with a 3 p.m. ET tip time.

There is beef between the Big3 and Clark after the Fever’s star turned down the league’s $10 million offer to play in the three-on-three league.

Caitlin Clark in action Thursday against the Valkyries.
Caitlin Clark in action Thursday against the Valkyries.Ice Cube said on “The Dan Patrick Show” last June that the deal would have been for two years at $5 million each season and they had even discussed team ownership, plus merchandise benefits.

“We believe her coming into the BIG3 would be such a big deal that all boats would rise and the league would benefit from the attention,” Ice Cube said last year.

That salary would have been a humungous raise from her four-year, $338,056 contract after being drafted No. 1 last year by Indiana.

DeMita interviewing Carmelo Anthony at a Big 3 event.
DeMita interviewing Carmelo Anthony at a Big3 event.@redemita/YouTube

However, Clark is not like most WNBA players due to her lucrative endorsement offers that can make up for the roughly $84,500 yearly salary.

Basketball player being interviewed after a game.

The Big3 announced DeMita’s role upon her hiring as: “She will be giving basketball fans a behind-the-scenes look into the upstart basketball league and amplifying the voices of the star-studded league, which include Nancy Liberman, Lisa Leslie, Jason Richardson, Frank Nitty and other former NBA players.”