Pat McAfee Is Right, Caitlin Clark Is The Only Reason Anyone Is Paying Any Attention At All To The WNBA

The overwhelming majority of folks in the media, and just the general population of sports fans, have been trying to present this ridiculous, politically-driven theory that the sports world is all of a sudden talking about the WNBA because of how great the 2024 draft class as a whole was.

The actual reality - a place that same crowd refuses to visit - is that Caitlin Clark is the one and only reason people who have never paid any attention at all to the WNBA are choosing to do so. If we really want to be honest, the world isn't talking about the WNBA, it's talking about Caitlin Clark who just happens to play in the league.

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Plenty of folks at ESPN understand this, the offices in Bristol aren't entirely filled with people who lack common sense, but Pat McAfee seems to be the only one at the four-letter network willing to discuss the very obvious situation.

During Monday's edition of his show, McAfee reacted to Chennedy Carter of the Chicago Sky putting Clark on the floor with a cheapshot over the weekend. The hard foul added more fuel to the ridiculous conversation about Clark needing to ‘earn her stripes’ as a rookie and how it's fine for non-rookies in the league to feel frustrated that she's already looked at as the face of the WNBA less than a half-season into her professional career.

McAfee isn't having it. He and his co-hosts played a game of ‘Which WNBA Rookie’ to perfectly rip apart the theory that Clark isn't the driving force behind the interest in the league. Nothing McAfee said was opinion, either, he brought facts to the discussion.

He closed out the segment by calling out those in the media pushing the narrative that the entire 2024 rookie class is driving the conversation in the league, when in reality it all falls on the shoulders of Clark.

"I would like the media people that continue to say ‘this rookie class, this rookie class, this rookie class,' no, let's just call it for what it is. There's one white bit-h for the Indiana team who is a superstar," McAfee said.

"We have to hear people say that ‘we all like her because she’s white' or ‘she’s only popular because the rest of the rookie class is doing well,' well that's a bunch of bullsh-t," he continued.

This entire narrative we're seeing play out with Clark that is not-so-subtly focused on the color of her skin was incredibly predictable, but seeing it already hit this level just 11 games into her career is a bit surprising.