Few could have guessed that a white woman skilled at basketball would be the latest individual to reveal simmering tensions
Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark, left, drives to the basket against New York Liberty forward Betnijah Laney-Hamilton in New York, on May 18.Until recently, the most famous professional women’s basketball player in the world largely gained her notoriety by being locked up in a Russian prison.
Ms. Clark was drafted No. 1 overall in April by the Indiana Fever, a pathetic team with few fans. That has changed. The Fever, while still lousy, now play to an average crowd of more than 12,000 fans a game, up from the fewer than 4,000 that had been attending home contests previously. The Fever recently drew more than 20,000 fans for a game in Washington against the equally lowly Mystics – a bigger crowd than the first game of this year’s NBA finals.
Pat McAfee, one of the most-watched sports blabbers in the U.S., said the idea that the entire current WNBA rookie class is driving interest and attendance records in the league, and not just Ms. Clark, is a joke.
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