Final Team USA Roster Proves Cheryl Reeve Hates Caitlin Clark More Than She Loves Women’s Basketball

Possibly the biggest name in athletics right now is Caitlin Clark. In my 35 years of existence, this is most likely the first instance in which I can recall a female athlete dominating the sports world to the extent that she has.

Of course, there have been successful female athletes. However, the majority of them are products of Olympic sports like track, swimming, figure skating, and gymnastics. Maya Moore, Sheryl Swoopes, and Lisa Leslie were three women in basketball who, in their respective eras, elevated the sport to unprecedented heights.

There has never been star power in women’s athletics like that of Caitlin Clark.
Lindsay Whalen was one local example of such, particularly in 2004 when she was guiding the University of Minnesota to the Final Four. However,

Never, ever has individual athlete in women’s sports elevated the sport as a whole, or the entire gender of athletes, to the level that Caitlin Clark has.

It’s impossible to estimate how many young girls will attempt basketball worldwide as a result of Clark. Many of whom, but only because they fell in love with her initially, will fall in love with the game. In terms of women’s basketball, Caitlin Clark is essentially the Taylor Swift of the sport.

To assist meet demand for tickets, the 0-12 Washington Mystics, for instance, had to shift their game against Clark’s Indiana Fever this week from a 4,000-seat arena to a 20,000-seat arena. Within 30 minutes, all 16,000 seats were reserved.

However, such behavior isn’t even

a surprise these days. History will be made and insane amounts of curiosity will be sparked whenever Caitlin Clark is involved. And dollar signs appear when insane quantities of interest are produced, which is definitely the case with Clark.

Caitlin Clark is removed from the Team USA roster by Cheryl Reeve.
More unexpected than Clark shattering yet another attendance record, however, was the revelation that she would not be included in the official 2024 Team USA women’s basketball Olympic roster, which was released on Saturday.

That’s correct, the leaders of women’s basketball have continuously pleaded, chastised, and shamed sports fans into believing they weren’t concerned enough. The same folks who insist on increased financial investments from NBA owners

Enter the WNBA, who anticipate that despite no one watching, TV networks will air their games at primetime…Now, nearly every other sport on the 2024 Paris schedule is taking precedence over Olympic sports for the same individuals. They had the opportunity to spearhead national Olympic coverage and significantly expand the sport, which they profess to love, on a global scale.

The paparazzi and cameras may have been with them. the enormous throngs of spectators and journalists that surrounded their team bus whenever it stopped. They could have had the rows of little girls screaming and pleading for autographs as they passed. Rather, they deliberately chose to disappear for the most part of the time they were in France later this summer.

Why? Bias, envy, and jealousy

Choose what you want. Although the WNBA ought to be welcoming Caitlin Clark into the league, they have rejected their first true superstar. After learning the news on Saturday, Dave Portnoy, the creator of Barstool, very much nailed it (transcript below).

Clark is the focus of current players’ taunts during news conferences and games. She is being disparaged by former teammates for being the next big thing in women’s basketball. Oh, perhaps the worst of all might be rival coaches. It defies logic that the majority of the WNBA views Clark as a threat rather than a ticket, for whatever reason.

Leading the charge against Clark is Cheryl Reeve, head coach of the Minnesota Lynx and president of basketball operations, who also works as is both the head coach and primary talent evaluator for Team USA. This is what she said on Twitter during the WNBA preseason, in response to the league’s daring to highlight Clark’s performance rather than the Lynx.

The most absurd aspect of this is that Reeve has been a leading proponent of women’s basketball attention-getters and guilt-tripping, as seen by her statements (see the article’s bottom). whatever the price.

This is a chance to take the women’s game to a new height in the history of the sport. Having more money and popularity is simply just one sensible decision away. What does Reeve do, then? SHE says no, preferring to further her personal grudges above the expansion of the game she professes to love. It’s the height of hypocrisy.Reeve won’t be the only one held accountable for Clark’s exclusion from Team USA. She receives assistance from an Olympic committee comprised of

of the individuals that faced off against Clark. There are no Hawkeye or Fever coaches on the Olympic committee or staff of Team USA.

Those with the most clout are Connecticut Sun president Jennifer Rizzotti, former Lynx star and current LSU assistant Seimone Augustus, and South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley, whose team defeated Iowa in the National Championship this season. Nonetheless, Cheryl Reeve has the last word on matters as head coach and WNBA President of Basketball Operations.

You can now hear the justifications that Reeve and Team USA officials are putting out, which are being repeated by several WNBA journalists. They claim that Clark needs to wait her turn and isn’t good enough to be on the 2024 Team USA squad. Alternatively, my own

favorite, that she wouldn’t have enough playing time to satisfy the demands of her devoted fans…But that’s all bullshit. Clark should be on that roster for all reasonable reasons. Since 1992, Team USA women have not lost an Olympic match. They have a record of 70-3 and haven’t dropped a FIBA World Cup since 2006. They defeat most teams by 50 points and essentially never lose.

When The Dream Team played against nations that were only beginning to establish themselves in the basketball world in the 1990s, international women’s basketball was still more akin to that period in men’s basketball history.This occurred as a result of the individuals in charge of the team and women’s basketball in 2024, particularly the Minnesota Lynx and Team

Instead of focusing on development and business, the USA’s top decision-maker, Cheryl Reeve, is caving in to her own bias, jealousy, and jealousy. Stupid.

Cheryl, where’s this energy going? It’s funny, for some reason, we don’t see as many of these tweets these days.