The USA girls’s basketball choice committee launched an official assertion in June, a number of days after the media reported that that they had left probably the most dynamic and well-liked feminine athlete on the planet at this time, Caitlin Clark, off of their Olympic roster.
The league broke the information after Caitlin Clark drained seven 3-point pictures, scored 30 factors, led in assists, and stuffed 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 all the attendance information within the first half of the season – It didn’t matter.
Clark led the league in 3-point pictures when the picked the Olympic crew – 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 probably the most thrilling participant in basketball at this time – It didn’t matter.
This was not sufficient for these offended, jealous girls to place Clark on the Olympic crew 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 all the main collegiate scoring information in historical past and led the NCAA in assists this yr, was not chosen for the Olympic crew.
The 5 girls who excluded Caitlin Clark from the 2024 Olympics are Seimone Augustus, Daybreak Staley (heart), Jennifer Rizzotti , Delisha Milton-Jones , Bethany Donaphin and the offended Olympic girls’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 girls can not 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 girls.
Then, that lie was uncovered rapidly. On the time their choice was made:
- Caitlin Clark led the league in 3-point pictures.
- 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 many of the different girls chosen for the crew.
Clark is one in all solely three WNBA gamers who ranks within the prime 20 in factors, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks per recreation.
Catilin Clark’s present stats put her above each single guard chosen for the Olympic crew.
And, Caitlin Clark is the 4th hottest athlete – male or feminine – on the planet at this time behind solely LeBron James, Tiger Woods, and Steph Curry.
Caitlin Clark has now turn 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 ladies’s basketball on the Olympics the US girls’s crew drew the smallest crowd by a large margin. The US girls led by their offended Caitlin-hatin coach Cheryl Reeve solely had 13,500 followers at their recreation.
The U.S. girls’s basketball crew 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 crew struggled to promote tickets for the Sunday recreation. With out Caitlin Clark it’s not really easy to fill the seats.
They even needed to embody a “particular provide” to promote the seats.
Then on Wednesday the US crew solely drew 12,437 followers. This was one other embarrassment.
The US girls’s basketball league might have been the most well-liked recreation on the Olympics this yr. However the offended girls simply couldn’t get previous their delight.
So reasonably than filling stadiums with Caitlin Clark – they’re again to 12,000 followers per recreation.
That’s what occurs whenever 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 a large fail.
