In the United States, we only talk about her. Yet Caitlin Clark seems impervious to media pressure. “I know there's been a lot of pressure since the start of my career, but for me, I'm just having fun playing basketball,” he told a crowd of journalists.
Originally from Iowa, United States, Caitlin Clark started playing basketball at age 5. 17 years later, at age 22, she was drafted first overall and joined the Indiana Fever team. If her entry into the WNBA, the professional women's basketball league in the United States, is resounding, the athlete has already greatly impressed this season in the NCAA where she has become the best scorer in the history, men and women combined, of this prestigious university league. Enough to impress everyone, including LeBron James who congratulated him and wrote on his X account: “If you don't like Caitlin Clark's game, you're just a huge hater”.
Thanks to her, the final of the university championship broke an audience record: 24 million viewers. Never has a basketball match, men's or women's, professional or university, had such audiences in the United States since 2019. And it seems that the player will continue to shake up women's sport. Her arrival in the professional league has rekindled the debate on the salaries of female athletes. She would earn $338,000 over four years. For comparison, Victor Wembanyama in the NBA is $55 million in four years. Public opinion was offended, and even Joe Biden reacted on his X account: “It is time that we give our daughters the same opportunities as our sons and that we ensure that women receive the salary that they deserve.”