Sports commentator Rachel DeMita believes that Caitlin Clark’s exclusion from the roster of the U.S. Olympic women’s national basketball team was an error.
As the red, white, and blue prepare to travel to Paris next month to contend for another gold medal on the international stage, Clark was not selected as one of the 12 players to represent the team.
But DeMita told News in a recent interview that she thinks Team USA lost out on a marketing goldmine and a chance to showcase the best women in the WNBA because Clark’s popularity has surged since she was on the court for the Indiana Fever.
I personally think it is, yeah. I think if you think of it from a marketing standpoint, firstly, she’s box office. The numbers do not lie. There is no other player in the WNBA who is demanding the other teams they play against to move arenas to make sure they can hold as many fans as they need for these games,” she said. “That’s the one player who is doing that.”
“A lot of people are saying she is not one of the best 12 players in the league right now. Maybe she is, maybe she isn’t, but I would guarantee that you put her on that court and there’s not going to be a drop-off in her game,” DeMita said. “She’s going to hold her own on the court. And I think she can do that against any of the other teams.”
