Caitlin Clark marketing boom is celebrated but also draws questions of race and equity

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Caitlin Clark has attracted a new wave of support for WNBA players, but some question why veteran Black WNBA stars didn't get the same boost.

Women’s basketball has never seen anything like Caitlin Clark, the sweet-shooting rookie guard for the WNBA’s Indiana Fever. She’s Taylor Swift with a jump shot, Mia Hamm in a singlet; a figure so transcendent she is changing her profession. More than 55,000 people showed up to watch her play a practice game last fall and her final college game drew 24 million TV viewers this spring. That’s 3 1/2 times larger than the audience for Serena Williams’ final tennis match.

If Clark delivers the WNBA the kind of record-breaking TV audiences she brought to college basketball, that could mean even more money for a league in the final year of its current broadcast deal. “The boom of social media, there's more accessibility and visibility.

 

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