USA Basketball’s anticipated determination to depart Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark off the roster for the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris was met with questions Saturday morning, however one report shed some mild on the choice.
Citing two sources, USA At present columnist Christine Brennan reported one think about omitting Clark from the ladies’s nationwide workforce was the priority about how the previous Iowa star’s followers would react to her enjoying time within the Olympics, which might doubtless have been restricted.
Caitlin Clark on the WNBA Draft on the Brooklyn Academy of Music April 15, 2024, in New York, N.Y. (Cora Veltman/Sportico through Getty Pictures)
Brennan described these sources as “long-time U.S. basketball veterans with many years of expertise within the ladies’s sport.”
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Reviews of the choice had been met with fierce backlash on social media, and, as Brennan factors out, seemingly confirmed the narrative that not everybody in the WNBA is happy with Clark’s recognition.
“If true, that might be a rare admission of the existence of actual rigidity that the previous guard of ladies’s basketball harbors for this multimillion-dollar sensation,” Brennan wrote of the sources’ information.
Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever throughout the 2024 Commissioner’s Cup sport towards the New York Liberty June 2, 2024, in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Catalina Fragoso/NBAE through Getty Pictures)
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Clark was invited to the nationwide workforce’s coaching camp in April, however due to the Iowa Hawkeyes’ success in reaching the ladies’s ultimate within the NCAA event, she was unable to attend.
9 different Olympians had been invited to camp, together with five-time gold medalist Diana Taurasi of the Phoenix Mercury, who is predicted to return. Fever teammate Aliyah Boston was additionally invited to affix the nationwide workforce’s coaching roster in April.
Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark brings the ball up courtroom towards the Chicago Sky June 1, 2024, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire through Getty Pictures)
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Clark has received three gold medals with USA Basketball junior nationwide groups, together with her newest with the 2021 USA Girls’s U19 Nationwide Staff.
The U.S. ladies have received each gold medal in ladies’s basketball because the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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