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Veteran sports talk show host Colin Cowherd doesn’t like the way the media has been covering Caitlin Clark since she joined the WNBA.
“The media doesn’t really know how to react. She’s great,” Colin Cowherd recently told Mollie Cahillane of the Sports Business Journal, referring to Clark. “The media is lost.
“People parachute in (with) strong opinions. They’re just women playing basketball. They’re chippy, like how men play basketball, that’s how basketball is played. Get over it. It’s so insane. They’re all fine — we’re not. They’re fine. It’s embarrassing.”
He’s not wrong. Almost every rookie in the NBA has to go through some form of earning their stripes. Nothing is ever handed to them by their opponents. Why should it be any different in women’s professional basketball? Caitlin Clark didn’t get to where she is by having thin skin. She will be fine.
As for Clark, and Angel Reese for that matter, not making the U.S. women’s basketball team for the 2024 Summer Olympics, LSU star Flau’jae Johnson recently put it into perspective.
“I know like, the behind, like, all the camps and stuff that the people people got to go to, the trials and all the stuff,” Johnson explained to Angela Yee on her podcast. “And they’ve been doing that for a long time so, it’s kind of like they already kind of had a team basically together and practicing. You know how that goes.
“But I think, they like [Clark and Reese] could play on that team right now. With the talent they got, they’re obviously two of the top players in the league. You know whay I’m saying? So, I think they definitely could have played, but we still gonna get that gold. We still dominating. So it’s all good.”
Johnson also pointed out during her interview, echoing what Colin Cowherd was saying, “Women’s basketball, as far as a competitiveness, have always been the way it is. It’s just about like, what the media put eyes on and what makes it popular.”