The USA ladies’s basketball choice committee launched an official assertion in June, a number of days after the media reported that that they had left essentially the most dynamic and common feminine athlete on the earth right now, Caitlin Clark, off of their Olympic roster.
The league broke the information after Caitlin Clark drained seven 3-point photographs, scored 30 factors, led in assists, and crammed a 20,000-seat area in Washington, DC, the night time earlier than the information broke. Clark placed on a clinic. It didn’t matter.
Clark broke the entire attendance data within the first half of the season – It didn’t matter.
Clark led the league in 3-point photographs when the picked the Olympic workforce – It didn’t matter.
Clark was bringing in MILLIONS of recent followers to the league for the primary time ever – It didn’t matter.
Clark is essentially the most thrilling participant in basketball right now – It didn’t matter.
This was not sufficient for these offended, jealous ladies to place Clark on the Olympic workforce the place she belonged.
The world was ready for Caitlin Clark to play within the Paris Olympics, the WNBA brass gave the US and the world the center finger.
Caitlin Clark, who owns the entire main collegiate scoring data in historical past and led the NCAA in assists this yr, was not chosen for the Olympic workforce.
The 5 ladies who excluded Caitlin Clark from the 2024 Olympics are Seimone Augustus, Daybreak Staley (middle), Jennifer Rizzotti , Delisha Milton-Jones , Bethany Donaphin and the offended Olympic ladies’s coach, Cheryl Reeve.
The WNBA brass clearly hates their followers. They discover Caitlin Clark followers vile and unacceptable. And so they determined to punish all of America for loving Caitlin.
The WNBA didn’t touch upon the choice or defend the league’s hottest participant.
These ladies can’t publicly admit why they banned Caitlin from the Olympics. At first, they insisted that Caitlin didn’t have the expertise and expertise of those different ladies.
Then, that lie was uncovered shortly. On the time their resolution was made:
- Caitlin Clark led the league in 3-point photographs.
- Caitlin Clark was within the prime 8 within the league in scoring.
- Caitlin Clark was within the prime 3 within the league in assists.
Caitlin Clark’s stats are higher than a lot of the different ladies chosen for the workforce.
Clark is one of only three WNBA gamers who ranks within the prime 20 in factors, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks per sport.
Catilin Clark’s present stats put her above each single guard chosen for the Olympic workforce.
And, Caitlin Clark is the 4th hottest athlete – male or feminine – on the earth right now behind solely LeBron James, Tiger Woods, and Steph Curry.
Caitlin Clark has now develop into ESPN’s fourth most favorited lively athlete
The one athletes forward of her:
LeBron James
Tiger Woods
Stephen Curry#WNBA pic.twitter.com/95uwrYJRTW— Clark Report (@CClarkReport) June 21, 2024
Within the first day of girls’s basketball on the Olympics the US ladies’s workforce drew the smallest crowd by a large margin. The US ladies led by their offended Caitlin-hatin coach Cheryl Reeve solely had 13,500 followers at their sport.
The U.S. ladies’s basketball workforce drew the smallest crowd among the many opening video games on the Olympics. Who might’ve seen this coming after USA Basketball determined to not take Caitlin Clark to Paris?
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— OutKick (@Outkick) July 30, 2024
The workforce struggled to promote tickets for the Sunday sport. With out Caitlin Clark it isn’t really easy to fill the seats.
They even needed to include a “special offer” to promote the seats.
Then on Wednesday the US workforce only drew 12,437 fans. This was one other embarrassment.
The US ladies’s basketball league might have been the most well-liked sport on the Olympics this yr. However the offended ladies simply couldn’t get previous their delight.
So relatively than filling stadiums with Caitlin Clark – they’re again to 12,000 followers per sport.
That’s what occurs once you hate your followers. They begin to reject you too.
Girls’s basketball additionally misplaced TENS OF BILLIONS in income by blocking Caitlin from the sport. What losers.
What an enormous fail.
