FOX Sports activities broadcaster Tim Brando stated Monday he was, like many basketball followers, surprised Caitlin Clark was left off of the Olympic roster for the 2024 Paris Video games.
Clark didn’t make the reduce for the 12-player crew poised to carry residence one other gold medal regardless of her reputation and the way curiosity within the Indiana Fever rookie has helped elevate WNBA TV scores to new heights.
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Brando appeared on OutKick’s “Sizzling Mic” and known as the snub “one of many dumbest enterprise choices ever made.” He additionally talked about Dallas Wings guard Arike Ogunbowale, who was additionally left off the crew, as one other participant who was snubbed.
“Nevertheless it’s been requested by so many individuals on social media, Dan Patrick even talked about it right this moment as a result of he felt like should you’re gonna put Caitlin Clark on (the crew) who’re you going to take off? … (Arike Ogumwike) is rated like No. 2 total in all of those totally different statistical classes and but she’s not made it both. So, you may make the case, she acquired jobbed much more than Caitlin Clark,” Brando stated.
“However from purely a enterprise perspective, if you would like extra eyeballs watching your sport as a result of the expansion of the ladies’s sport is significant to you, which is what the WNBA has been saying to us since 1997, then how on the earth may you not let the most well-liked, not simply girls’s participant, however basketball participant on the earth proper now, how may you not discover a spot for her on that roster?”
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Brando stated that envy from WNBA figures within the sport or who had retired from the game doubtless performed a task in Clark being saved from the American bench and have been utilizing the crew’s depth as a canopy for the “actual downside.”
“They’re throwing an increasing number of cowl to camouflage the true downside, which is a bunch of jealous older gamers p—ed off, they usually wished no a part of her on that crew,” he stated. “That’s what it was.”
Brando did reward Clark for a way she’s dealt with the media speaking factors.
Clark stated she’s going to use the snub as “extra motivation” to attempt to make the crew in 2028.
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