LeBron James has come to the protection of Caitlin Clark after she obtained some criticism main as much as the NCAA championship.
“If you don’t rock with Caitlin Clark game you’re just a FLAT OUT HATER!!!!!” James wrote in a submit on X. “Stay far away from them people!! PLEASE.”
Clark and her Iowa staff misplaced to South Carolina within the Final 87-75. Meaning that Clark leaves school with no title, having misplaced the championship recreation these previous two seasons.
LeBron wasn’t the one basketball star that had one thing to say of Clark, since WNBA legend Diana Taurasi commented on how she thinks gamers like Clark and South Carolina heart Kamilla Cardoso will modify to the WNBA.
“Reality is coming, there’s levels to this thing,” Taurasi mentioned on SportsCenter.
“And that’s just life, we all went through it,” Taurasi continued. “You look superhuman playing against some 18 years olds but you’re going to come [play] with some grown women that have been playing professional basketball for a long time. Not saying it’s not gonna translate, because when you’re great at what you do, you’re just gonna get better. But there is gonna be a transition period, where you’re gonna have to give yourself some grace as a rookie.”
The solely four-time Final Four most excellent participant in ladies’s basketball historical past, Breanna Stewart, thinks that Clark wanted to clinch a championship for her legacy.
“Yeah, she does (need a championship), I think so,” Stewart mentioned throughout an look on SiriusXM College Sports Radio. “Because then you’re gonna look 10 years back and you’re gonna see all the records she’s broken and the points and stuff like that, but anybody knows, your goal when you play college basketball is to win a national championship, so you need one.”
The WNBA Draft will happen on April 15 and it’s extensively anticipated that Indiana Fever will choose Clark because the primary total decide.
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