Caitlin Clark is 'face of the NBA,' former player says

NBA figures person jumped into a "face of the league" statement conscionable weeks aft the disapproval the All-Star Game received successful examination to the NHL’s 4 Nations Face-Off.

A erstwhile first-round draught prime retired of North Carolina made his lawsuit astir who helium believed the look of the NBA is – Caitlin Clark.

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Nike banners featuring Caitlin Clark are installed on the eastbound broadside of Des Moines' Court Avenue Restaurant and Brewing Company connected Feb. 20, 2025. (Cody Scanlan/The Register/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

"THE FACE OF THE NBA IS CAITLIN CLARK!!!" ex-NBA defender Rashad McCants wrote successful a station Saturday connected X. "Yea I said it!!!! She has handled disapproval amended than the radical you see THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!!!! @CaitlinClark22 your the GOAT!!!"

McCants past pointed to the latest quality astir accumulation games the Indiana Fever volition beryllium a portion of. 

The Fever volition play an accumulation crippled against the Brazilian nationalist squad successful Iowa earlier the WNBA play begins. Tickets for that crippled sold retired successful nether an hour. Furthermore, the Chicago Sky moved their location games against the Fever from the Wintrust Arena to the United Center.

"Like I said THE FACE OF THE NBA!!! This is the metric. Sold retired successful minutes. Preseason!!! We witnesser her get blitz by peers, alumni, randoms, politicians, and supra each other women!! She ne'er ran from the challenge. Accepted it and roseate supra it! Goat!"

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Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark plays against the Dallas Wings successful Indianapolis, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Last week, Minnesota Timberwolves defender Anthony Edwards said helium didn’t privation to beryllium the look of the league. Los Angeles Lakers prima LeBron James empathized with that.

"Why bash you wanna beryllium the look of a league erstwhile each the radical that screen our crippled and speech astir our crippled connected a day-to-day ground s--- connected everybody?" James asked reporters Thursday.

"That work – it’s conscionable weird. It’s weird vigor from the radical that… I don’t know."

James said helium understood wherever Edwards was coming from with his remarks.

"(Anthony Edwards) said helium don’t privation it. I mean, obviously, I didn’t inquire for it; but I knew determination was a work for maine – not lone to my family, my friends, my community, and whoever that was gonna travel my travel passim my career, not lone to Ohio erstwhile I started determination – but each implicit America and each implicit the satellite erstwhile I question each implicit the world," helium said.

Caitlin Clark smiles during the WNBA All-Star Game connected July 20, 2024, astatine Footprint Center successful Phoenix, Arizona. (Juan Ocampo/NBAE via Getty Images)

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"I’ve ever taken that earnestly and understood from the opening what being a nonrecreational is each astir and being a relation exemplary is each about… I consciousness Ant. I understand. I wholly understand. It’s conscionable weird vigor erstwhile it comes to that."

Fox News’ Ryan Canfield contributed to this report.

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