Basketball sensation Caitlin Clark has helped convey an unprecedented quantity of consideration to girls’s sports activities.
NBA legend Isiah Thomas lately joined Dan Dakich on OutKick’s “Do not @ Me” to debate the highest decide within the 2024 WNBA Draft’s affect on the sport.
“I really love the eye that Caitlin has delivered to the WNBA, and I like the eye that ladies’s basketball is getting,” the Naismith Memorial Basketball Corridor of Famer informed Dakich.
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Retired NBA participant Isiah Thomas onstage throughout “From The Hardwood to the Board Room: A Dialog with Isiah Thomas” on the 2023 ForbesBLK Summit at Southern Trade Ballrooms on Nov. 6, 2023 in Atlanta. (Paras Griffin/WireImage)
Thomas was happy with the sharp rise and a spotlight the WNBA has obtained this season.
“For too lengthy… the media hasn’t actually shined a light-weight on the WNBA athletically and competitively. They may give it a nod every so often. However now, since Caitlin has arrived, and he or she had an awesome school profession, and he or she was implausible to observe… and also you’re curious… you wish to see it go on. I feel it is nice what she’s accomplished, and I feel it is nice what the media and the WNBA and advertising and marketing and the gamers are doing.”
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Thomas added that whereas he doesn’t imagine controversy is essentially a optimistic, it helps promote the league.
Caitlin Clark, #22 of the Indiana Fever, warms up earlier than the sport in opposition to the Washington Mystics at Capital One Area on June 7, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (G Fiume/Getty Photographs)
“Controversy will not be good, however controversy sells and whether or not the NBA needs to confess it or not, the NBA… the steps that it made to get to the place that it is at from a fan enchantment standpoint… the NBA over time needed to undergo some very controversial moments, they usually stepped up they usually met the problem.
“The WNBA is in its… I feel is in its twenty sixth or twenty seventh yr of existence, and it may undergo these controversial moments and I’ve little doubt that they’re going to step up and meet the problem.”
Caitlin Clark, #22 of the Indiana Fever, handles the ball in opposition to the Washington Mystics at Capital One Area on June 7, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (G Fiume/Getty Photographs)
Clark lately scored a career-high 30 factors in a win over the Washington Mystics. Whereas Clark has shined in some video games this season, the Indiana Fever have gotten off to a gradual begin. The Fever will enter their recreation in opposition to the Atlanta Dream on June 13 with a 3-10 file.
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Clark is averaging 16.3 factors and 6 assists over the primary 13 video games of her WNBA profession.
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