Due to her absence from the 2024 Summer season Olympics in Paris, Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark has fallen out of the information cycle a bit. The rookie sensation hasn’t performed in any sort of aggressive basketball sport since scoring 4 factors within the WNBA All-Star Sport on July 20—and will not till the Fever’s subsequent sport Friday towards the Phoenix Mercury.
Nevertheless, that does not imply Clark has been ignoring the goings-on within the Metropolis of Gentle. Showing on Saturday’s YES Community broadcast of the New York Yankees‘ sport towards the Texas Rangers, she addressed each the ladies’s and males’s nationwide crew’s performances.
“I watch (the Olympics), and I simply love worldwide basketball,” she mentioned. “You watch the boys, it is very completely different from how the NBA is performed. It’s totally completely different from the WNBA… (lacking the Olympics) provides you one thing to work for.”
Clark’s omission from the US Olympic crew precipitated controversy—particularly as her play improved following the roster’s announcement.
“That crew is so gifted. I feel the USA, on the ladies’s facet, is simply so dominant,” Clark mentioned. “They play tomorrow [Sunday] for the gold medal, and I actually do not see them having any hassle profitable… it is positively one thing to work for in 2028.”
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Requested by the Yankees’ commentary crew concerning the males’s dramatic 95–91 semifinal win over Serbia Thursday, Clark expressed confidence in them as properly.
“I knew they had been gonna come again and win,” Clark mentioned. “LeBron (James) was by no means shedding that sport. Steph Curry was unreal in that sport. … I do not assume they’re gonna have any drawback with France.”
