Caitlin Clark might have the second-most All-Star votes within the WNBA, however it’s not going to make up for her Olympic snub.
The No. 1 general choose of April’s WNBA Draft, and the NCAA’s all-time main scorer, was not named to the 12-person Olympic roster for subsequent month’s video games in Paris.
It stays a choice that’s debated continually, with many nonetheless pondering it is a head-scratching transfer.
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Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever brings the ball up court docket in opposition to the Washington Mystics at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on June 19, 2024, in Indianapolis. (Emilee Chinn/Getty Pictures)
Choice committee chair Jen Rizzotti informed The Related Press that it will have been “irresponsible” to place Clark on the group, citing that profitable, not reputation, was the primary purpose, and she or he merely didn’t make the reduce.
However with Clark drawing report scores and attendance the game has seldom seen, Casey Wasserman, an agent who’s serving because the president of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, stated Clark’s snub is a “missed alternative.”
“She’s clearly a generational expertise at a time when the world was prepared for it,” Wasserman stated at Saturday’s U.S. swimming trials, by way of USA As we speak.
“There have been unbelievable abilities on this planet, disgrace on all of us, the world wasn’t in a spot to embrace that,” Wasserman continued. “Take Diana (Taurasi) or Breanna Stewart, or a few of our purchasers who’re going to be on the group. They’re dominant at a stage that’s by no means been seen earlier than, however the world wasn’t able to fill a constructing like Caitlin Clark did for no matter, the Ultimate 4.
Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever celebrates a basket in opposition to the Chicago Sky at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on June 16, 2024, in Indianapolis. (Emilee Chinn/Getty Pictures)
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“Now you’ve each these issues and in order that’s a robust alternative and I simply suppose it will have been a chance to raise the ladies’s group however I perceive the opposite facet of it, which is it’s an impartial course of, and it’s laborious to get in the way in which of telling (the coach and the committee) what to do.”
“I perceive either side of the difficulty,” Wasserman added, “however purely as a chance to showcase a generational expertise to the world, clearly. However I completely get either side of it. If it had been easy, we wouldn’t be debating it.”
Clark is at the moment averaging 16.2 factors, 6.2 assists, and 5.4 rebounds per recreation in 17 WNBA contests. Her Indiana Fever group is at the moment on a four-game profitable streak after beginning the season 3-10.
Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever handles the ball throughout the Washington Mystics recreation on June 19, 2024, in Indianapolis. (Ron Hoskins/NBAE by way of Getty Pictures)
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With Clark not enjoying within the Olympics, will probably be her first extended break from enjoying basketball since earlier than she took the court docket for her senior season at Iowa.
That season began in November, and eventually led to April following the nationwide championship. However she was drafted only a week after the nationwide championship, and coaching camp started shortly thereafter.
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