With its star-studded current cast of rookies, even the WNBA – for so long so poor at promoting its stars – isn’t dropping the ball and Friday’s game at Crypto.com Arena showed it is working.…
Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark gestures after making a 3-point shot during the final minutes of their victory over the Sparks on Friday night at Crypto.com Arena. A Sparks record crowd of 19,103 came out to Crypto.com Arena on Friday night to see three of them – No. 1 overall pick Caitlin Clark and No. 2 Cameron Brink and No. 4 Rickea Jackson – spar on stage as pros for the first time,And another million takes on the timeline.
But she came alive late, scoring six of her 11 points on a pair of deep 3-pointers in the final 2:27, slapping hands with actor and fellow Iowan Ashton Kutcher. Her late-game shot-making – along with her 10 assists – pushed Indiana to its first victory in six tries. And Jackson, an agile, 6-foot-2 forward from Tennessee, scored seven of her 16 points – and of the Sparks’ 11 points – in an otherwise frigid third quarter.recently, she told the Clippers star that she has been recognized more in L.A. than at Stanford, where last season she was named the Pac-12 Player of the Year.
And Brink chopped it up with John Ireland and Ramona Shelburne on the radio Thursday and, before that, on the podcast with George, the Sparks’ charismatic new star relaying a story about making the Clippers’ famously stoic star Kawhi LeonardSmart. The American sports-watching audience loves its stars. Loves to love them, loves to hate them; either way, for better or worse, we pay attention. A bunch of “couch coaches” Clark’s Fever teammate Aliyah Boston called some of you.
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