Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark interrupted a reporter asking a query throughout a post-game press convention on Thursday night time 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. Five questions have 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 Climate Pledge Arena on June 27, 2024, in Seattle, Washington. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
But 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 path.
“No, I’m good,” Boston responded, however Clark insisted.
“Ask Aliyah a query.”
Despite the chilly shoulder from the media to begin the presser, Boston responded intimately to the questions requested after Clark’s remark.
The consideration surrounding Clark’s rise in the WNBA has confirmed to be an excellent 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, in the course of the fourth quarter within the sport at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on June 1, 2024, in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
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“It all began from the nationwide championship sport,” Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese mentioned earlier this month.” I’ve been coping with this for 2 years now. Understanding, yeah, detrimental issues have in all probability been mentioned about me, however truthfully, I’ll take that as a result of look the place girls’s basketball is. People are speaking about girls’s basketball (who) you’ll by no means suppose can be speaking about girls’s basketball.
“People are pulling as much as video games. We bought celebrities coming to video games, sold-out arenas, simply due to one single sport. And simply take 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 explanation why we’re watching girls’s basketball is not only due to one individual. It’s due to me, too. I need y’all to understand that.”
Reese recorded her ninth-straight double-double in Chicago’s 95-83 win over the Las Vegas Aces on Thursday night time 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 in the course of the sport in opposition to the Las Vegas Aces on June 27, 2024, on the Wintrust Arena in Chicago, IL. (Randy Belice/NBAE through Getty Images)
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The WNBA’s viewership scores and attendances have skyrocketed this season.
Earlier this month, the league introduced that May marked the highest-attended opening month in 26 years and the most-watched begin of the season ever throughout each community.
This unprecedented development in viewership and attendance this season has a lot to do with this yr’s rookie class. According to 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 Associated Press contributed to this report.
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