Caitlin Clark didn’t make Crew USA’s ultimate squad for the Olympics and Stephen A. Smith isn’t completely satisfied about it.
Talking on the most recent episode of First Take, Smith labelled the transfer “silly”, saying that Crew USA would win the gold medal regardless, so the staff might as properly embrace a rookie who’s electrified girls’s basketball.
“They gonna in all probability win the gold once more, that’s not what this dialog is about,” Smith stated. “That is about what I’ll personally label the idiocy of Crew USA Ladies’s Basketball. How dare you make this resolution? It’s silly. And I’m going to let you know why it’s silly. I need all the women on this squad to know each single certainly one of y’all are deserving of it. Caitlin Clark doesn’t deserve a spot forward of any of the gamers on this roster, okay? If we’re speaking simply basketball, however we’re not, we’re not.
“… This lady is field workplace. I stated a rising tide lifts all boats… It’s a possibility to globalize the WNBA model. So individuals like Brittney Griner, God bless her soul and others don’t need to go to Russia within the low season to play extra basketball to get additional earnings. They might keep proper right here if the game elevates its recognition and also you girls begin getting what you richly deserve.”
Clark herself responded with humility when requested about being left off the staff.
“I’m excited for the ladies which are on the staff,” she advised reporters Sunday. “I do know it’s essentially the most aggressive staff on the earth and I do know it might have gone both method — me being on the staff or me not being on the staff. I’m going to be rooting them on to win gold. I used to be a child that grew up watching the Olympics, so it is going to be enjoyable to observe them.
“Actually, no disappointment. It simply offers me one thing to work for; it’s a dream. Hopefully sooner or later I could be there. I feel it’s just a bit extra motivation. You do not forget that. Hopefully when 4 years comes again round, I could be there.”
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