Basketball sensation Caitlin Clark has helped convey an unprecedented quantity of consideration to girls’s sports activities.
NBA legend Isiah Thomas not too long ago joined Dan Dakich on OutKick’s “Don’t @ Me” to debate the highest decide within the 2024 WNBA Draft’s influence on the sport.
“I truly love the eye that Caitlin has delivered to the WNBA, and I like the eye that girls’s basketball is getting,” the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer informed Dakich.
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Retired NBA participant Isiah Thomas onstage throughout “From The Hardwood to the Board Room: A Conversation with Isiah Thomas” on the 2023 ForbesBLK Summit at Southern Exchange Ballrooms on Nov. 6, 2023 in Atlanta. (Paras Griffin/WireImage)
Thomas was happy with the sharp rise and a focus 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 will give it a nod once in a while. But now, since Caitlin has arrived, and he or she had a fantastic faculty profession, and he or she was improbable to observe… and also you’re curious… you wish to see it go on. I believe it is nice what she’s performed, and I believe it is nice what the media and the WNBA and advertising and the gamers are doing.”
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Thomas added that whereas he doesn’t consider 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 Arena on June 7, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (G Fiume/Getty Images)
“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 through the years needed to undergo some very controversial moments, they usually stepped up they usually met the problem.
“The WNBA is in its… I believe is in its twenty sixth or twenty seventh yr of existence, and it is going to 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 Arena on June 7, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (G Fiume/Getty Images)
Clark not too long ago scored a career-high 30 factors in a win over the Washington Mystics. While Clark has shined in some video games this season, the Indiana Fever have gotten off to a sluggish begin. The Fever will enter their sport in opposition to the Atlanta Dream on June 13 with a 3-10 document.
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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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