Caitlin Clark didn’t make Crew USA’s remaining squad for the Olympics and Stephen A. Smith isn’t pleased 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 workforce could as nicely embody 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 Girls’s Basketball. How dare you make this choice? It’s silly. And I’m going to let you know why it’s silly. I would like all the women on this squad to know each single one in every 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 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 chance to globalize the WNBA model. So folks 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 further earnings. They might 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 ladies which might be on the workforce,” she advised reporters Sunday. “I do know it’s probably the most aggressive workforce on the earth and I do know it might have gone both manner — 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 will probably be enjoyable to observe them.
“Truthfully, no disappointment. It simply provides me one thing to work for; it’s a dream. Hopefully at some point I will be there. I feel 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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