Call me lazy and/or a product of my generation that's allegedly running America/the planet into the ground, but why bother with a proper lede to this piece when a meme is worth a thousand words? https://twitter.com/ClickHole/status/960568745298223104 To be clear: Haven't met Kevin Garnett. Can't confirm he's the worst person I know, because I don't know him. I don't have any actual grudge against him, other than his annoying antics as an NBA player, having rooted passionately against him during his Boston Celtics heyday as a fan of LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. I "sports hate" Kevin Garnett. I don't hate him in actuality. It'd be dope to meet a 15-time All-Star, NBA MVP and champion, and Hall of Famer. Let's steer this ship back in the direction of Caitlin Clark, whose laugh-out-loud Olympic snub culminated in piss-poor American backcourt play and a nail-biting
one-point win over France for the gold medal at the Paris Summer Games. It didn't have to be that suspenseful. Clark's presence would've made sh*t a lot easier. Alas, the weird energy that permeates women's basketball culture kept her off the Team USA roster. In the aftermath of yet another exceptional performance by Clark — 29 points, five boards, 10 assists in the Indiana Fever's 98-89 victory over the Phoenix Mercury on Friday night — KG recognized how that Olympic hiatus might've been the best thing to happen to the WNBA's biggest star in the bigger picture of her rookie season. https://twitter.com/KevinGarnett5KG/status/1824834124558799263 By "biggest star" I don't necessarily mean Clark is the best player in the league, yet it's hard to deny she's in the top 10 already at the very least. Her star power has proven to be box office gold for the Fever and the WNBA as a whole. https://twitter.com/WNBA/status/1824630352444526790 https://twitter.com/FOS/status/1824442518798245891 Nobody has ever been hyped up as much as Clark has in the history of women's basketball. She went straight from a national runner-up finish at Iowa to the WNBA Draft to her first professional season in a matter of weeks. Some early struggles on a squad that just had the No. 1 pick in the draft for two straight years had all the haters coming for her. Following that mildest amount of turbulence, she's more than delivered and has Indiana in prime position for a playoff spot. Meanwhile, aging legend Diana Taurasi was on the Olympic roster, made only two of her 12 shots from the field, and played zero minutes in that gold medal matchup with France. Her pre-draft take on Clark is also aging very poorly, as the Fever are 3-0 against Taurasi's Mercury team this season. https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1824623302695886863 KG might be onto something. Clark appears to have used her Olympic downtime wisely. And this occurred to me also: When the Summer Games return to the U.S. in Los Angeles for 2028, Clark will be making her Team USA debut — and the fanfare will be that much greater since it'll be her first Olympics. It's all working out quite nicely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp5cCVuw5To
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