Cavinder twins reward Caitlin Clark’s influence on ladies’s basketball: ‘A once-in-a-lifetime participant’

The dialog about Caitlin Clark’s influence on the WNBA and the expansion of ladies’s basketball has been a hotly debated subject because the former Iowa star was drafted with the primary total decide by the Indiana Fever final month.

For Haley and Hanna Cavinder, there is no such thing as a debate.

“She’s a once-in-a-lifetime participant,” Haley mentioned of Clark’s influence throughout an look on OutKick’s “Scorching Mic” Tuesday. “What she’s achieved for the sport during the last yr is insanely good for girls’s basketball.

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“She’s enjoyable to observe. Everybody desires to observe her,” Haley continued, including the spikes in viewership and income are an excellent indication of the place the sport is headed. 

“I believe she’s superb, and that’s why folks need to watch. And that’s what grows the sport. Even going into the ladies’s NBA, I don’t suppose I’ve ever watched ladies’s NBA extra as a result of Caitlin Clark’s in that league. I believe what she’s doing for the sport is nice for girls’s basketball.” 

Some have questioned Clark’s rise within the WNBA. Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson just lately prompt race performed a major position in Clark’s recognition. Wilson’s coach, Becky Hammon, later implored the media to “knock it off” with respect to the race narrative however later clarified when requested if her feedback had been being “misconstrued.”

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“It is construed as a few of our minority Black and brown ladies are hating on her as a result of she’s white, and that’s not the case. Let’s take Caitlin out of the image. What I believe is upsetting … it isn’t about Caitlin. Give her her flowers. She’s achieved stuff that no man or lady, Black or White, has ever achieved in faculty basketball. Give that lady her flowers,” Hammon mentioned.

“However what it does is, it has highlighted how Black and brown greatness has not been celebrated or valued as a lot. That is what I used to be speaking about.”

Clark’s professional debut was the most-watched WNBA sport since 2001. That got here after she was the star within the 4 most-watched ladies’s NCAA video games ever, three of them Iowa’s ultimate three video games of the latest March Insanity event. 

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Forward of the Fever’s sport Friday, Clark mentioned she doesn’t take note of what’s on social media.

“That is my job. My job is to compete and play basketball each single day. I believe the extra consideration we will get on each workforce round this league, that is solely going to assist me get higher and higher.” 

The Cavinder twins, who performed three seasons at Fresno State earlier than spending the 2022-23 season with the Hurricanes, introduced their determination to return to Miami to play their fifth and ultimate yr of eligibility in April. 

Fox Information’ Ryan Morik and The Related Press contributed to this report. 

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