Green spoke on his podcast
Caitlin Clark’s arrival in the WNBA has coincided with a spike in interest — and TV ratings — for women’s basketball. Clark has not found it easy to adjust to the WNBA with the Indiana Fever, but expectations for the former Iowa Hawkeyes star — who left the NCAA as college basketball’s all-time leading scorer — remain sky-high.
While many have been quick to anoint Clark as the WNBA’s most marketable player as a rookie, some — like Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green — believe that honor should go to a more experienced player, with a list of accomplishments that towers above the competition.
Draymond prefers A’ja Wilson
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Rather than the sharpshooting Clark (who has elicited comparisons to Green‘s longtime Golden State teammate Stephen Curry), Draymond believes that the future “greatest player to ever grace the WNBA” should be the league’s most marketable asset.
“The best thing since sliced bread in the WNBA is A’ja Wilson,” Green said on “The Draymond Green Show.” “I’m not necessarily in the mindset that it’s all Caitlin Clark, no, A’ja Wilson is great. A’ja Wilson to me is the American dream.”
Draymond Green says A’ja Wilson needs to be viewed as the most marketable player in the WNBA and has the potential to be the greatest player of all time
“The best thing since sliced bread in the WNBA is A’ja Wilson. I’m not necessarily in the mindset that it’s all Caitlin Clark,… pic.twitter.com/VOcjdgvSMF
— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) June 5, 2024
Wilson has done nothing but dominate the competition since she entered the WNBA in 2018. The former South Carolina Gamecock was the Las Vegas Aces‘ first overall pick and immediately became an All-Star power forward as a rookie. Since then, she has added new layers to her game with each passing season.
Wilson is a two-time league MVP (winning the award for the first time following her third season) and a two-time Defensive Player of the Year — as well as a two-time defending champion with the Aces. And she has taken her game to an entirely new level so far in 2024, off the back of news that she will soon receive her first signature shoe from Nike.
As of Wednesday, Wilson in second in the WNBA in scoring at 26.5 points per game and leads the league in rebounds with 12.5 per game. Wilson’s 2.8 blocks per game are slightly behind Seattle‘s Ezi Magbegor for the WNBA lead, too — and at only 27 years old, Wilson is in position to get better and better as she enters her prime.
Lost in all of the rookie-WNBA conversations is that A’ja Wilson has somehow reached a new level this year, if that’s even possible. In her own class. Absolute legend.
27/13 in 10 minute quarters is some 2k shit. pic.twitter.com/XWPiMMKwyZ
— Brick Van Exel (@skydrew__) June 2, 2024
Chennedy Carter’s Teammate Reveals Disturbing Comments Made By Angry Fan To Chicago Sky Players During Hotel Confrontation After Release Of Edited Video
Chennedy Carter (Photo via @StrollerAdam Twitter)
As previously noted, Chennedy Carter and her Chicago Sky teammates were harassed by a male fan on Wednesday as they arrived at their hotel in Washington, D.C.
A video made its way around the internet of a man going up to Chennedy Carter and asking her if she’s had the opportunity to talk to Caitlin Clark. A member of Chicago’s security team steps in and tries to stop the fan from talking to Carter in the 19-second video:
But according to Carter’s teammate, Michaela Onyenwere, the video “was edited” and contained far more disturbing comments from the man. Onyenwere says the man called them “ghetto (expletive)” and stated that “women’s sports isn’t (expletive).”
Sky GM Jeff Pagliocca told Annie Costabile of the Chicago Sun-Times that the man approached the team with a camera and was solely looking for Carter. Team security diffused the situation and got the man to leave so the police did not have to be called.
Chennedy Carter made headlines last Saturday when she delivered a shoulder check to Caitlin Clark in the Sky-Indiana Fever game. The officials initially handed her a standard foul, but the league reviewed the play and upgraded it to a flagrant foul.
Indiana won that game by a final score of 71-70, marking their first home win in the Clark era. Chicago will try to move to 4-5 on the year tonight when they visit the 0-9 Washington Mystics.
Chennedy Carter’s Sky Will Meet Fever Three More Times
The Carter-Clark incident on Saturday, along with Angel Reese’s viral celebration of the hit on the sidelines, has suddenly made the Sky-Fever feud one of WNBA’s top can’t-miss rivalries.
The good news for basketball fans is that the Sky and Fever still have three more showdowns in the 2024 regular season. The next one is only 10 days away, with Chicago set to visit the Fever again on June 16.
