(Photo : Steph Chambers/Getty Images) CLEVELAND, OHIO – Caitlin Clark (#22) of the Iowa Hawkeyes talks with the media after dropping to the South Carolina Gamecocks within the 2024 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament National Championship at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse on April 07, 2024 in Cleveland, Ohio. South Carolina beat Iowa 87-75.
Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James supplied his perspective on why the highest gamers in girls’s faculty basketball garner important reputation in comparison with their male friends.
The NBA’s all-time main scorer talked about his tackle the most recent episode of his “Mind the Game” podcast, which was launched on Wednesday, April 10.
“The number one thing is in women’s sports compared to the men, we have the ability to go to the NBA right after our freshman year. In the women’s game you have the ability to build your legacy and build your rapport and brand with that fan base, with that community,” the 39-year-old stated to co-host JJ Redick.
For the primary time in historical past, the ladies’s ultimate of the 2024 NCAA Division I Tournament drew a bigger TV viewers than the boys’s.
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The girls’s title sport, that includes South Carolina and Iowa, averaged 18.7 million viewers, whereas the boys’s sport between UConn and Purdue averaged 14.82 million viewers.
Caitlin Clark and WNBA stars, catalysts to girls’s basketball reputation
James attributed the recognition to Iowa Hawkeyes star Caitlin Clark, present WNBA stars Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird, Candace Parker, Kelsey Plum, and retired WNBA star Chamique Holdsclaw.
“You get a woman to stay on campus, 3-4 years, I think that has a lot to do with the popularity of their sport,” the 20-time NBA All-Star added.
James has beforehand praised Clark on social media.
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