Caitlin Clark didn’t make Crew USA’s remaining squad for the Olympics and Stephen A. Smith just isn’t blissful about it.
Talking on the newest episode of First Take, Smith labelled the transfer “silly”, saying that Crew USA would win the gold medal regardless, so the workforce might as effectively embody a rookie who’s electrified ladies’s basketball.
“They gonna most likely 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 choice? 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 one in all 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 you recognize we’re not, you recognize we’re not.
“… This woman is field workplace. I stated a rising tide lifts all boats… It’s a possibility to globalize the WNBA model. So folks like Brittney Griner, God bless her soul and others don’t should go to Russia within the low season to play extra basketball to get additional revenue. They may keep proper right here if the game elevates its reputation and also you girls begin getting what you richly deserve.”
Clark herself responded with humility when requested about being left off the workforce.
“I’m excited for the women which might be on the workforce,” she informed reporters Sunday. “I do know it’s essentially the most aggressive workforce on this planet and I do know it may have gone both method — me being on the workforce or me not being on the workforce. 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 will likely be enjoyable to observe them.
“Actually, no disappointment. It simply offers me one thing to work for; it’s a dream. Hopefully someday I will be there. I believe it’s just a bit extra motivation. You do not forget that. Hopefully when 4 years comes again round, I will be there.”
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