Caitlin Clark talks WNBA draft, ‘SNL’ debut, Olympic dream
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Women’s basketball phenom Caitlin Clark sits down with NBC’s Stephanie Gosk on TODAY to share how she is feeling going into the WNBA draft coming off the heels of her surprise debut on “Saturday Night Live.” Clark also reflects on her work inspiring young girls and her dream of competing in the Olympics.
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#basketball #caitlinclark #wnba
God, I love this woman. I’ve purchased season tickets to see her in Indiana. Go Caitlin!
She got me to watch women's basketball. She has the potential to be a superstar! The WNBA should embrace her!!!!
She acquitted herself quite well on SNL! Clearly not a theater major but a couple of times, she showed surprisingly good timing on punchlines.
"You don't have a girlfriend, Michael." 🤣
@@jcortese3300 That’s the one that hit me the most!
Positivity for a long and wonderful career for CC.
She is such a class act
🌽
CAITLIN CLARK IS 🔥🔥🔥🔥
She's worth literally millions of dollars to the WNBA. So my advice to all the players and likely haters in the league. Keep your mouth shut, and get paid.
Facts!!!!!
Say it louder for the people in the back! 👏🏼
The NBA blew up because of the rivalries created in the late 80s and 90s. The WNBA needs rivalries. Hopefully Bueckers comes out next year would love to see her against CC. This year I look forward to seeing the Taurasi v CC.
@@cinattra Gotta have players first, and CC is that player!
Your talking str8 facts🔥🔥
This lady's got the right stuff - not every 22 year old could handle being the public face of an entire sport, especially one that is breaking into the mainstream.
She great because not only is she a great athlete SHES A GREAT HUMAN
Hopefully she’ll stay normal in life. Young girls are looking up to her.
She is the best college basketball player of all time
They better et her play! USA! The viewership will be like the 92 Dream Team.
That's a no Brainer.
What are you, and intern for the WNBA?
The dream team? Are you serious?
Caitlyn Clark is like a total solar eclipse, possessing the unexpected power to cause us Americans to overcome all our differences and come together as one united people in favor of solar eclipses and basketball because we are so awestruck of never having seen anything quite like this before. And we should remember, an eclipse occurred just a few days before Clark's entry to the WNBA and interpret this as a sign of good fortune for aspiring astronomers and basketball fans everywhere. O my people! Thank God for solar eclipses and Caitlyn Clark!
That was fun. 😂
Good fortune
Are you serious? She is guarded by girls! Overcome our differences?...couldn't be any worse.
Solar eclipses only last a few minutes. I think she will do better
@@kennethschwartz9351 You sound like a guy that would compete in women's sports.
@@kennethschwartz9351put down the phone and deliver that pizza.
Her three point shot and passing ability is exciting to watch but the ball behind the back cannot be dismissed.
*Shes a class act and amazing player. Hope she has an amazing career ahead of her.🐐*
First to be able write the goals down in 2nd grade is a great feat it self then to be able follow through is another.... This Lady has to have a high IQ for life in general then the Basketball IQ as you know is off the charts!!!! Great Luck CC22!!!!!
She's so sweet. I would buy her shoe brand if she had one.
They are developing one from what I've heard CC22's or something like that.
oh that’s coming very soon 👀
She's already with Nike
Its coming
@@LetsGetitBoah No bad we can't buy them since Nike's are made in China with Uyghur and child slave labor.
World! Welcome to the Caitlin Clark effect.
❤😊 Kudos to you, Caitlin Clark!
Amazed at how hard some people try to find something negative about Clark. Makes me think/hope the posters are 12 years old. Can’t be adults, can it?
CC 💛
It's so nice to see a positive person interviewed like CC rather than Debbie Downer Trump issues for a change,
Clark 2024
Stephanie Gosk. LGBTQ
@@Blacklist324 Don't know. Don't care. She did a good, personal interview, which is why she was given the assignment.
Clark have versatile appearance. She look every bit the basketball, non vanity type girl on the court. Then she change into this sophisticated, attractive female, if situation require her to be, like personal interview. It a sign of the time, with social media, and every person have multiple personality. Some do very well with it. Some not. People think they can 'stack' against Clark, as she try her hand at pro sport, and they gonna find it better to get on the Clark 'caravan.'
So, it's not that anyone was sexist for not watching before - they were just waiting for something worth watching.
Game Changer
Those people saying Caitlin is overrated, please check the stats. You're discrediting her because of your ego and envy. She earned all the hype, period.
She has to be in the Olympic team, otherwise I won´t watch the games.
Can you imagine how other countries fan's would respond seeing how she plays. I realize many know already but it would ramp up that much more.
Why would you think she wouldn't be on the Olympic team?
@@melrosehawkins8294 I´m from Brazil and I live in Brazil. She´s already famous around the world of basketball. If she goes to the Olympic games, she will bring even more fans to the WNBA. Women´s basketball is starting a new era, and our Brazilian player Kamilla Cardoso is part of it.
Double Duece! Finally! It's not so embarrassing to live in indiana! 😊
💙💙💙
NBC should be knocking the door down of the US Womens Olympi Team Selection Commitee. Clark needs to be on that Paris Team. Her Generational talent, notwithstanding, her sole ability to bring massive attention to the WNBA, necessitates her being on that team. The ratings are going to be historical. I'd rather see CC versus watching Turasai on her 8th Team. Get it done, NBC.
Good luck🎉
good luck
Oh yeah she's a great athlete!
It's refreshing to see a young beautiful woman with class and style!
Caitlin kind of cute ngl
6:17 love watching her
As for scheduling the mandatory tryout for the women's Olympic basketball team during the Final Four (thanks for mentioning that), that was just plain stupid.
Caitlin is the goat 🎉🎉🎉. Iowa loves you!!!
USA womens basketball way to go for holding the women’s game back for 4 years 👏
To the haters, instead of being jealous of her hype embrace it and enjoy what she's going to bring to our nation and women's basketball in the coming years. My only worry is some in the WNBA are angry over her attention, so will play so aggressively they'll injure her badly enough to end her professional, USA Basketball career before it even has a chance to start. I for one am looking forward to many productive WNBA years and seeing her lead our team to multiple gold medals. I hope you will, too.
If she’s not going to Paris ; I’m not watching.
I tossed a wad of paper into a trashcan this morning and said, "Cait-LIN!" I love it that I can do that.:)
I love watching Caitlin Clark. Still not watching the wnba.
Caitlin is so hot
Caitlin Clark and angel Reese
the reason I watch
She looks more like a businesswoman than a legend on the court in this interview
The quart? You mean court??
Great Job on SNL Clark!
She seems to be much more than a basketball talent. I can’t imagine what her schedule has been like for the past few months. Really remarkable.
If Caitlin Clark were on NY Liberty with Stew York City, Sabrina and Courtney...that would be the biggest display of GOD MODE ever seen in any sports.
What's the New York library?
Wish her nothing but the best!
Caitlin Clark is amazing, and the women's game is really strong right now. From superstars in the WNBA like Breanna Stewart, A'ja Wilson, Jackie Young and Jewel Lloyd to future stars in Clark, JuJu Watkins, Paige Bueckers, Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso, women's basketball is so much fun to watch right now. Enjoy it, folks!
Superstars? That's comical. I'm not familiar with even one wnba player you mentioned.
@@patrickscopas9133 Your ignorance doesn't negate their talent. But don't worry, nobody is going to force you to watch the WNBA. The rest of us will enjoy it just fine without you.
When CC plays her first televised WNBA game, I'll watch my first WNBA game. Her popularity with kids translates to families watching her WNBA games. Now, WNBA overlords, lift the salary cap, add some teams to develop even more of these great NCAA talents coming out, and hang on for the ride!
The nba underwrites the wnba. They haven't made money since they've been in existence.
Easy on the lift the salary cap and expansion. You know this league is subsidized right?
@@patrickscopas9133 The league is currently a tax write off with a hand full of teams making a profit.
I don't want espn and pay for things that should be FREE.
I LOVE Caitlin and I am so happy for her, unfortunately since I don't watch the WNBA, I wont be watching any of her games unless they show them FREE online.
I hope the very best for Gabbie Marshall (and the rest of them), I love that girl.
Caitlin put Indianapolis on the map. They have a car race there also..
She’d be an awesome Marine Pilot as well!
Good Luck CC!! Want t see you on Olympic Team. Please keep older (35 plus) off the team.
Wish she would have come 2 the Liberty, She's the best
Who's back after The Snub?
No one cares about non-sporting teams of all-star players that stop organically developed competition. SC and the WNCAA made a travesty of the championship, Iowas fields 1 5 star and a team built on development and the best coaching we've seen. SC fields a team of 10 5 stars (with an Emperor's New Clothes narrative that 'coach of the year' Staley ''rebuilt" by taking 25% of a class' 5 stars to replace 5 who left) and continued the talent-distribution perversion of sport that has been destroying wbb for decades. - We will see the result of this when next year the biggest drop in viewership history, of any sport, hits the WNCAA gatekeepers. Maybe SC can go 190 and 0 getting 30 five stars in 6 years, or maybe UConn will do the same. No one cares about monopolization of talent in sport being sold as competition.
What a colossal blunder by the WNBA…
I get having a “committee” to RECOMMEND a line up, they can recommend a few line ups… but then have grown ups make the decision!
Caitlin you could have the type of platform that Taylor Swift has ..... Enjoy the memories along the way girl !!
Caitlin Clark was at first the Canary in the Cultural Mine of WBB, now she is for the entire culture.
- She and her coach and teammates did everything the right way. If we can't treat them right and enjoy the excitement and great role modeling they've given us, then we know we've gone further backwards than the time of Tiger Woods - when most of us came together to buoy him past the gatekeepers.
- Besides the pettiness of the hive mind following cheap race politics and all, the national championship game was a travesty. One team is completely made up of five star players, they lose five and get five more and then "coach of the year". Nobody but homers is buying it. Five teams have won 70% of all WNCAA championships. The incredible competitive imbalance of player distribution, whether through direct collusion or lack of oversight, destroys the sport.
- Clark and Iowa just showed the country that 500% more people want to watch women's basketball, but they want to watch fairly built teams with the best coaching around great talent, not a modern Red Auerbach controlling the recruiting back door.
- We are about to see the biggest drop in viewership of any sports league in history. If the WNBA doesn't wake up from being angry and woke they're about to drop the biggest ball that anyone's ever dropped.
- Imagine a reality where haters ruled the Magic and Bird story of inspiration.
It's always taken a complete team to win. Even before Tennessee-Uconn. In the AIAW days Immaculata won three straight, Delta State won three straight lead by a true pioneer Lucy Harris, Old Dominion won back to back, Louisiana Tech won the penultimate AIAW and the first NCAA tournament Championships. USC went to three in a row and won back to back , Old Dominion won another before the Tennessee reign began. I don't knock South Carolina because they had a good team. Iowa already got a five star commit, guard Addie Deal from California and there will be others. As for nobody caring about SC win but homers. I suppose that's enough. But ultimately teams play for who's in the locker room. They are making their own memories, we're just watching.
I hope her dream doesn't turn into a NIGHMARE. She can play basketball, but the level of hate she will face is likely to be soul crushing. Her Dream Team experience will be a great prelude to what she will experience in the WNBA in terms of vitriol from teammates. Taurasi hates her already. The coach needs to cut Taurasi to send a message to the rest of the team and the WNBA. This is a once in a lifetime chance to grow a fan base. I doubt the players can resist constant backstabbing.
Generation born after September 11th.. time is flying
Lawyer is the image I get
CC jerseys bring in more revenue than the entire take for the wnba did in all of 2023
College female basketball player goat 🔥🔥🔥
Very pretty
2 out 3 ain't bad. She can play LA 2028 Olympics and win gold in front of Americans in her Olympic debut.
3:14 “they’d be insane to not have CC on the team…”
Yup! They are lunatics!
The fact that mgmt did not have the final decision… time for new mgmt!
The WNBA mgmt May need to be replaced…
CC is the face of the sport worldwide!
How is she not representing the United States?
I can see a Olympic Gold on her neck happy
I don't even watch the NBA draft anymore, so there is zero chance that I will tune in for the WNBA draft.
The world was waiting to see what you would do! Wait, who are you again?
Who gives af what you do Steven?
Cool story Steve
But you are clicking on caitlin clark videos, Steve. 😂
I agree with Steven.
Wait till the wnba 2nd half a rested Clark numbers will make the wnba veterans weep.
Very macho bone structure. A true superman!
Listen to the applause for her on SNL!
Would like to see Clark stay away from woke ideologies and the status quo .
and she's hot
Congratulations my Beautifuly girl Caitlin Clark ; triumph and be happy but do not get carried away with pride there is the human problem and GOD CHRIST JESUS gets angry, and you suffer. GOD BLESS YOU ALL YOUR LIFE ❤⚘️🙏
Today show sucks!
Now really, does the Today Show ever plan on having Hoda Kotb, a former high school player who is close in age to V.P. of the U.S. Harris, when she was playing for her school located near the Mt. Vernon estate of Pres. George Washington, doing any one-on-one's in a random gym with Caitlin Clark, it would be the most apt thing to do, as an example having Hoda down near the basket catching a direct pass of the ball from Clark and putting it up off the backboard and into the basket?????
Nice to see the world buzz over a woman athlete for once
she looks…..significantly darker in this interview
She's preparing for the wnba.
she better enjoy it while she can after the hype wears off she's only going to be playing in front of 10 people
no one plays for the fans. they play cause they love the sport, something people who’ve never played wont understand, like urself
Incredibly stupid decision to no have her on the olympic team.
Players like her Zia Cooke..Cameron Brink should be the face because for a change we are seeing personalities that people ACTUALLY like
I would agree but I don't know who you're talking about.
One player can't change the very poor product of the wnba! Numbers go up temporarily, but when people actually see it, they will be very disappointed!
Hopefully the new generation of shooters coming through college can help space the floor and improve the overall product. Women's college basketball has improved a lot in the last few years and I do believe that can trickle up to the WNBA.
About tovtake a pay cut
How? NIL money doesnt stop, its called endorsements! She has a LOT!
Actually she will be making more money. She will get a salary playing Wnba ball , I think for a rookie it is $76,000.00 , plus all her endorsements deals go with her. Unlike in college where she didn't make money from university of Iowa for playing.
Making 10s of millions from sponsorships, and once she’s a pro, they will be worth more.
We all have eternal life. The question is where will you spend it. Jesus died on the cross for you. He who hears my word (JESUS) and believes in Him (GOD) who sent me will have eternal life! He will not be condemned, he has crossed over from death to life. John 5:24
SNL is garbage
They going to make sure they pump her name up like she the whole team that what do that's facts 😮😮😢
You mean.... marketing?
This is disrespectful why aren't you guys talking about the south carolina gamecocks they are the ones who won the championship.🤦
She moves the needle by far. Also, the number one pick today.
TV is about popularity more than anything
They’re talking about the draft, there’s a lot of other post of sc you can look up if you want
Because no one cares. Y’all acting like the media hasn’t pumped up generational athletes before (Tiger, Serena, Zion, Simone) This too will pass, relax
This is in anticipation of the draft that’s happening in a few hours
South Carolina doesn’t have a player with the impact she has.
South Carolina doesn’t move the needle.
If a WNBA draft sold out in 15 minutes,
And some of the other teams facing her are Already renting out bigger arenas just for games against her, that tells you everything.
The hype around Clark is over the top. It's still women's basketball.
Be grateful that she is bringing attention to womens sports. The college womens basketball has never been as popular as it has been with Catlin. Iowa economy along saw $82.5 million dollars thanks to Catlin. So no she's not over hyped.
So don't watch it. Simple
Is this Bruce Jenner?! 😆
Caitlin Clark will never win a WNBA championship as long as Britney Griner is still playing.
But Caitlin Clark will make Britney Griner and the rest of the WNBA players money.
@@lovehate8286🤔I think you might be right. It that is the case then why is she so polarizing to some female athletes if she could make them lots of money?
What a random comment about a random player that doesn't even play the same position as CC, nor is Griner on a dominant team worthy of suggesting they/she will single handedly keep Clark from a championship.
She is only one person on a team sport!
@@FriendlyBatDoom
I have no idea.
It’s crazy.