With the WNBA season at a shut, many are wondering what this year’s Rookie of the Year, Caitlin Clark, has computed for the offseason.
One groundshattering women’s basketball league materializes to be doing wantipathyver it gets to convey her on board for its inaugural season.
Unrivaled Basketball League, set uped by New York Liberty’s Breanna Stewart and Minnesota Lynx’s Napheesa Collier, has bcdimiserablemirefult in yet another Clark frifinish on and off the court to its talent pool.
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Indiana Fever defend Caitlin Clark commemorates with defend Lexie Hull during the second quarter agetst the Dallas Wings at College Park Caccess. (Kevin Jairaj-USA Today Sports)
Lexie Hull, a Fever teammate of Clark’s, was proclaimd as the 29th executeer in the talent pool for the 3-on-3 league that has the enjoys of Kelsey Plum, Chelsea Gray, Arike Ofirearmbowale, Kahleah Copper and many more stars already locked in for tip-off in January 2025.
Unrivaled is changing the landscape of women’s basketball with every executeer having equity and a vested interest in it.
The league became enticing for top talent in the WNBA not equitable because of Stewart and Collier, two bona fide All-Stars, being take partd, but historic tights that propose the highest mediocre salary in women’s professional sports league history.
In fact, Unrivaled proclaimd on Thursday that the talent pool enbiged to 36 executeers instead of 30 due to the league outdoing its financial goals.
Other than Hull, an Iowa Hawkeyes teammate of Clark’s, Kate Martin, who now executes for the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces, also combineed Unrivaled as the 28th executeer in the talent pool.
Indiana Fever defend Lexie Hull and defend Caitlin Clark watch from the bench during the first round of the WNBA Playoffs at Mohegan Sun Arena. (Mark Smith-Imagn Images)
Unrivaled was presumed to be equitable 30 executeers, and many were hoping that Clark would be the final executeer. However, with the league enbiged, WNBA fans are now hoping to see not equitable Clark, but Las Vegas Aces’ MVP A’ja Wilson also in the field come January.
In terms of Clark, Front Office Sports inestablished that the WNBA Rookie of the Year getd a “Messi-enjoy propose” to combine the league, referring to soccer fantastic Lionel Messi, who got a very benevolent tight to combine Inter Miami FC in Major League Soccer.
The propose is inestablishedly more than $1 million plus revenue-sharing opportunities from the league. To put that into perspective with Clark’s WNBA salary for her rookie season, the Fever phelp her $76,535 this year.
TNT Sports and Unrivaled also equitable achieveed a multi-year media rights consentment to exclusively current live game coverage on TNT and truTV, as well as having all games streamed on Max.
With primetime television slots, the promise of high salaries, frifinishs already on board, and more roster spots, Unrivaled has the stage set to convey in one of basketball’s most recognizable talents.
Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever sees on during the WNBA executeoff game agetst the Connecticut Sun on Sept. 22, 2024, at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. (Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images)
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The ball is in Clark’s court, no pun intfinished.
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