Caitlin Clark didn’t make Group USA’s closing squad for the Olympics and Stephen A. Smith will not be glad about it.
Talking on the most recent episode of First Take, Smith labelled the transfer “silly”, saying that Group USA would win the gold medal regardless, so the group might as nicely embrace a rookie who’s electrified ladies’s basketball.
“They gonna in all probability win the gold once more, that’s not what this dialog is about,” Smith mentioned. “That is about what I’ll personally label the idiocy of Group USA Girls’s Basketball. How dare you make this choice? It’s silly. And I’m going to inform you why it’s silly. I need all the women on this squad to know each single considered 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 you understand we’re not, you understand we’re not.
“… This woman is field workplace. I mentioned a rising tide lifts all boats… It’s a chance to globalize the WNBA model. So individuals like Brittney Griner, God bless her soul and others don’t must go to Russia within the low season to play further basketball to get additional earnings. They may keep proper right here if the game elevates its reputation and also you women begin getting what you richly deserve.”
Clark herself responded with humility when requested about being left off the group.
“I’m excited for the ladies which are on the group,” she informed reporters Sunday. “I do know it’s probably the most aggressive group on the earth and I do know it may have gone both approach — me being on the group or me not being on the group. I’m going to be rooting them on to win gold. I used to be a child that grew up watching the Olympics, so will probably be enjoyable to observe them.
“Truthfully, no disappointment. It simply provides me one thing to work for; it’s a dream. Hopefully sooner or later I may be there. I feel it’s just a bit extra motivation. You do not forget that. Hopefully when 4 years comes again round, I may be there.”
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