USC basketball star JuJu Watkins discusses the influx of new fans in women's basketball and how she handles the challenges that come with it.
USC women's basketball teenage phenom JuJu Watkins isn't turning away any of the new fans in her sport, not even the ones that give her 'headaches.' The meteoric rise of Caitlin Clark has injected women's basketball with waves of new fans, mainstream media hype and plenty of arguments between the new fans and old ones. These arguments are often about Clark's treatment by the league, other players and the media.
And some longtime women's hoops stars have denounced certain supporters of Clark and discouraged them from following the sport. Former WNBA player and current Atlanta Dream executive Renee Montgomery said that many of Clark's fans 'cannot be a representation of what the WNBA would want in their league' during an episode of her podcast in September. WNBA legend Sue Bird lashed out at this group in her podcast in November, claiming that some of them aren't even fans of Clark but are just 'acting' as fans while 'pushing racist agendas and pushing hate.' Clark herself said that some of her followers 'aren't fans' but are 'trolls' in her exit interview for her rookie WNBA season after Connecticut Sun players accused some of her fans of racism during a playoff series against Clark's Indiana Fever in September. But the 19-year-old Watkins, who is currently on pace to break Clark's NCAA all-time career scoring record, isn't taking any of the new attention for granted as a college player. 'So many new fans being in the sport sometimes can be, not necessarily challenging, but can just kind of give you a headache a bit. Not a lot of people know what they're talking about sometimes. But it's great for the sport. The fact that people are watching is enough in itself,' Watkins said, when asked by Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview about what challenges come with the sport's new attentio
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