Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark interrupted a reporter asking a query throughout a post-game press convention on Thursday evening to redirect the media’s consideration to teammate Aliyah Boston, who had been seemingly ignored for the primary a number of minutes of their availability.
Clark fielded a number of questions from the media following the Fever’s 89-77 loss to the Seattle Storm. 5 questions had been directed on the former Iowa star, as Boston sat beside her.
Aliyah Boston, #7, and Caitlin Clark, #22 of the Indiana Fever, sit on the bench earlier than the sport in opposition to the Seattle Storm at Local weather Pledge Enviornment on June 27, 2024, in Seattle, Washington. (Steph Chambers/Getty Photos)
However simply as one other member of the media started to ask Clark a query, she interrupted.
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“Ask Aliyah a query,” she mentioned pointing in her course.
“No, I’m good,” Boston responded, however Clark insisted.
“Ask Aliyah a query.”
Regardless of the chilly shoulder from the media to begin the presser, Boston responded intimately to the questions requested after Clark’s remark.
The eye surrounding Clark’s rise in the WNBA has confirmed to be a superb factor for girls’s basketball, however some argue that the league’s sudden rise in reputation has to do with greater than only one participant.
Caitlin Clark, #22 of the Indiana Fever, talks with Aliyah Boston, #7, in opposition to the Chicago Sky, throughout the fourth quarter within the recreation at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on June 1, 2024, in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Andy Lyons/Getty Photos)
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“It began from the nationwide championship recreation,” Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese mentioned earlier this month.” I’ve been coping with this for 2 years now. Understanding, yeah, adverse issues have in all probability been mentioned about me, however actually, I’ll take that as a result of look the place ladies’s basketball is. Persons are speaking about ladies’s basketball (who) you’ll by no means assume can be speaking about ladies’s basketball.
“Persons are pulling as much as video games. We received celebrities coming to video games, sold-out arenas, simply due to one single recreation. And simply have a look at that. I’ll take that position. I’ll take the bad-guy position. And I’ll proceed to take that on and be that villain for my teammates. If I wanna be that, I do know I’ll go down in historical past. I’ll look again in 20 years like the rationale why we’re watching ladies’s basketball is not only due to one particular person. It’s due to me, too. I would like y’all to appreciate that.”
Reese recorded her ninth-straight double-double in Chicago’s 95-83 win over the Las Vegas Aces on Thursday evening to tie the WNBA report for many consecutive video games with a double-double in a single season.
Angel Reese, #5 of the Chicago Sky performs protection throughout the recreation in opposition to the Las Vegas Aces on June 27, 2024, on the Wintrust Enviornment in Chicago, IL. (Randy Belice/NBAE through Getty Photos)
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The WNBA’s viewership rankings and attendances have skyrocketed this season.
Earlier this month, the league introduced that Could marked the highest-attended opening month in 26 years and the most-watched begin of the season ever throughout each community.
This unprecedented progress in viewership and attendance this season has a lot to do with this yr’s rookie class. In line with the league, “4 of the 5 moments that drove essentially the most engagement on social channels” included highlights of Clark, Reese, Cameron Brink of the Los Angeles Sparks, or Las Vegas Aces’ Kate Martin.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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