Ryan Clark accuses Robert Griffin III of ‘strange fascination’ with Angel Reese

The on-again, off-again social media feud between Ryan Clark and Robert Griffin III received new life Friday when Clark, the current ESPN analyst, doubled down on his ongoing criticism of his former ESPN and NFL teammate.  Now, one day after sub-tweeting Griffin III for recently reigniting his own discord with regard to WNBA superstar Angel Reese, Clark posted a 2 1/2-minute video to his personal X/Twitter page in which he calls out RGIII for his “stange fascination” with Reese and accused Griffin of “lying” about the former LSU alum and her inner circle.

Griffin III originally sparked the most recent controversy involving Reese when he quote-tweeted an artificial image of a monkey in Reese’s place on an altered version of the recently-released cover of the WNBA edition of NBA 2K26, which features the Sky forward as its cover athlete. In that quote-tweet, Griffin III said Reese’s “inner circle” reached out to him and confirmed RGIII’s previous stance that Reese “hated” WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark, which initially set off a heated racial debate that Ryan Clark subsequently inserted himself into back in mid-May.

RGIII’s quote-tweet Thursday prompted Reese to admonish the former NFL quarterback for “lying on this app when everybody know the first and last name of everybody in my circle for clout is nastyyyy work.”  And much like he did back in May, Ryan Clark re-inserted himself into the Griffin-Reese debate and once again called out RGIII in a pair of social media posts the past two days, including Friday’s video.

“RGIII seems to have this strange fascination with Angel Reese, or connection to the spotlight and attention that it brings,” Clark said Friday. “I know now I don’t get to speak on someone else’s Black experience or call something self-hate when I don’t know how you truly connect to the community or the culture. Or I can’t assume you see yourself in the thing that you push back against. But this one should’ve been easy. Angel Reese — this young, beautiful, talented, hard-working, successful Black woman who is on an absolute tear in the WNBA, who has an opportunity now to unveil her own shoe — is depicted as a monkey in this graphic, a graphic I only saw on (Griffin III’s X/Twitter) page. So now his millions of followers can see this (image) and it should be easy to defend her against such deplorable hate and racism and bigotry and evil.

“But he couldn’t do that. He had to make himself both he victim and the hero of this story. He had to mention that Angel Reese did something to him, instead of acknowledging what he initially did to her,” Ryan Clark continued. “He had to be, again, the champion for Caitlin Clark against the young, angry Black woman by lying on her and her inner circle. So now, Angel Reese, who should be in a celebration and trying to ignore the noise (from) all the evil and attacks she feels every single day has to come out and, along with her mother, to shut down these lies and accusations from RGIII.”

Ryan Clark then blasted Griffin III for not fully supporting Reese, a Black WNBA player, and went even further by suggesting former ESPN personality Rob Parker was “right about RGIII” for his controversial 2012 comments calling Griffin III a “cornball brother” on ESPN’s First Take. Parker was subsequently fired for those comments.

“This should’ve been a situation where he comes out as human and says: ‘We have to stop this.’ Because, by his own admission, he says that if you don’t support people that don’t look like you, then you’re part of the problem. Let me be clear, if you never support people that look like you, you are also part of the problem,” Ryan Clark added. “God made us with the responsibility for inclusion and compassion and empathy and love for all people. We also have that same responsibility for our people. I know people were mad that I apologized for my initial statements, but I wanted to make sure people had clarity about what I was saying.  “But while we’re on apologies, we all owe Rob Parker an apology. Because though he was early, he was right about RGIII.”