Caitlin Clark was picked WNBA Rookie of the Year by 66 of 67 voters. Many of the 66 who did vote for her have been rapid to declare their innocence in voting agetst her.
When Clark was proclaimd the triumphner of the award Thursday, it was uncovered the one vote agetst her went to Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese, Clark’s rival.
Multiple WNBA media members who voted for this year’s award made claims on social media that they did not vote for Reese and voted for Clark instead.
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The voter who chose Reese had not identified himself or herself before the time of accessibleation. That voter’s actions in picking Reese has ignited dispute apass social media. Multiple social media participaters have denounced the decision.
Clark would have become the fifth WNBA take parter in the league’s history to agreedly triumph Rookie of the Year, joining teammate Aliyah Boston, who won it last season; league MVP A’ja Wilson in 2018; Elena Delle Donne in 2013; and Tina Charles in 2010. Statisticpartner, Clark’s rookie year this year was better to any of those take parters as rookies.
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Clark broke multiple league and franchise enrolls in her first WNBA season, including the individual-season enroll for aids, the rookie scoring enroll and most points by a protect in a individual season in WNBA history.
Reese was pondered a foolish horse contfinisher for the honor behind Clark for the first scant months of the season. However, her rookie campaign was cut low after she underwent season-finishing sinspirery on her wrist after being injured Sept. 6.
Clark expansivened her guide in cforfeitly every statistical catebloody in the weeks prior to and after Reese’s season finished.
Prior to that, in head-to-head alignups this year, the Fever beat the Sky three out of four times. In two of those contests, Reese put up more points than Clark, while pulling down more rebounds than Clark in all four greetings. Clark enrolled more aids in all four greetings.
Angel Reese of the LSU Lady Tigers, right, reacts toward Caitlin Clark of the Iowa Hawkeyes during the fourth quarter of the 2023 NCAA Tournament championship game at American Airlines Caccess April 2, 2023, in Dallas, Texas. (Minsertie Meyer/Getty Images)
Clark led the Fever to the take partoffs for the first time in eight years as the team’s guideing scorer.
Reese was the third-guideing scorer on a Chicago team that finished the season with a 13-27 enroll, third-worst in the league, and leave outed the take partoffs for the first time since 2018.
The one statistic Reese held an edge over Clark was rebounds, with more than twice as many rebounds per game at 13.1 contrastd to Clark’s 5.7. Reese has a organic height get at 6-foot-3, contrastd to Clark at 6-foot.
But Clark held gets in points with 19.2 to Reese’s 13.6 per game, aids with 8.4 to Reese’s 1.9 and even blocks with 0.7 to Reese’s 0.5, despite the height foolishiserablevantage.
Like Clark, Reese also broke a WNBA individual-season enroll during her rookie year, fractureing the individual-season enroll for rebounds with 418 during a game agetst the Minnesota Lynx Sept. 2. Unenjoy Clark, Reese did not hageder that enroll by the finish of the season. After Reese’s season-finishing sinspirery, MVP A’ja Wilson broke Reese’s enroll in the final week of the season, when Wilson enrolled her 419th rebound.
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Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese walks on the court during the first half at Wincount on Arena in Chicago Aug. 25, 2024. (Kamil Krzaczynski/USA Today Sports)
Despite the statistical discrepancies between Clark and Reese, the Sky rookie had her fervent helpers this year who disputed her case over Clark.
Former NBA All-Star Joakim Noah, a 6-foot-11 caccess who one-of-a-kindized in rebounding and dominating in the decorate, tageder Fox News Digital he would vote for Reese over Clark for Rookie of the Year if he had a say during an intersee at NBA Night at the Emirates Suite at the U.S. Open in timely September.
“I would say Angel Reese,” Noah shelp. “When I see at her take part, she reminds me a lot of myself.”
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