USA Today's Christine Brennan is the most recent member of the media to call Mystics owner Sheila Johnson out for her polarizing comments about Caitlin Clark.
Renowned USA Today journalist Christine Brennan — who was at the center of a polarizing discussion during the WNBA season regarding her question to Connecticut Sun guard DiJonai Carrington aftertitled "On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports" along with other stories within the WNBA.Clark should not have been placed on a recent Time magazine cover alone
"I've seen so many players of color that are equally as talented, and they never got the recognition that they should have. And I think right now, it is time for that to happen," Johnson said. ", you read Time Magazine, where Caitlin Clark was named Athlete of the Year. Why couldn't they have put the whole WNBA on that cover and said 'The WNBA is the League of the Year', because of all the talent we have?"We have so much talent out there that has been unrecognized, and I don’t think we can pin it on just one player"Christine Brennan called out Johnson for her comments on Friday night, saying, “I know Sheila very well...
"It is, of course, the Athlete of the Year. It's not the League of the Year or the Team of the Year. Caitlin Clark deserves that," Brennan continued. "The impact that she had on the league is extraordinary, the TV ratings, the attendance, the sell-outs, even Sheila Johnson's own team... had thein the Time magazine piece... Caitlin has been nothing but great on this issue of the Black women who have made the WNBA what it is.
Members of the media are speaking up for Caitlin Clark after Sheila Johnson’s comments. It would be great to see WNBA leadership follow suit.Grant Young covers Women’s Basketball, the New York Yankees, and the New York Mets for Sports Illustrated’s ‘On SI’ sites. He holds an MFA degree in creative writing from the University of San Francisco , where he also graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing and played on USF’s Division I baseball team for five years.
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