NBA Eastern Conference player of the month and it got better from there the fever hosting the Sparks before the Olympic break July 17th Caitlyn Clark averaging 17 points per game they were 11 and 15 since then 24 points per game in the fever are 6-1 and a playoff bound team tarus halberton on hand to see triples just raining down from Clark her three-pointer over the season 34 games passing Ryan Howard for the fewest career games to reach the 103 Point Plateau this steal you know she got some d as well and then the put back for the two points and then she steps back she can do this all day long fever up four heading into the fourth quarter early in the fourth fever up 7168 Clark dribbles behind the back and what does she do another three on her way to a third consecutive 20 point 10 rebound game The Last since 2017 and then she drives to the paint behind the back to Lea Boston for the bucket and the foul the flashiest of her 10 assists she made a phenomenal pass to Boston who was able to finish she got fired up after that she's on the bench under 30 seconds to play Clark needs just one rebound to secure the triple double and if you see a beam T stration something special is about to happen it's that rebound When Kia nurse misses the three she gets high fives from her teammates completing her seven second triple double of the Season Take a listen to Clark's reaction to the feat post game did you know you were one rebound away from your second triple double of course I knew but somebody had to get the rebound so a was joking we always joke about stealing each other's rebounds so was funny Clark continued to shine on Wednesday and that was an impressive finish to the game the victory as the fever are now on their way to the playoffs she shines and continues to just rewrite the record books 100 career three-pointers did it in a 34th game breaking Ryan Howard's prior record of 40 Clark also notched the triple double in the fever's win becoming the fifth player in league history with multiple triple doubles in a season she's also the only WNBA rookie with any triple doubles and this was Clark's record time third straight game with at least 20 points and 10 assists and her seventh career game with 20 points and 10 dimes already third most in the WNBA history trailing only Courtney vandersloot and Diana terasi is possessed with the MVP this year at AJ Wilson Stewie is a two time what two two or three time MVP with the Liberty uh Thomas this team in Minnesota's been playing break has been playing great since the Olympic break but man the way Clark is playing her and Mitchell her ability to pass the ball I think they can take a game or two do I think they can upset one of the top three top four teams I don't but man they're going to make it very very difficult they got they're going to put some they're going to put some some fear in one of the these top four teams now if they can move up can they move up to five I don't I don't I don't really know but I know right now they're in the sixth spot that means they would play the Minnesota links M Minnesota is a very very deep team they can shoot the basketball they got sides and sides with ker um I don't think they can beat I don't think they could beat Minnesota I think they probably match up more favorably against the Suns but I don't think they can beat Minnesota I don't think they could beat the liberty and I definitely don't think they can beat the aces I think they probably a more favorable match up with the Suns you know Shannon I uh you know when you first started on first tap last September you took the liberty of throwing out some meme where on social media where you showed me playing a role of dwade lobing it up and then yeah LeBron catching it admit it yeah you know what saying and you superimpose my face on D way and yours on LBJ you see I'm the I'm the assist man LeBron I'm the assist man sh sh so that's what I'm going to do for you right here okay we already got this out of the way Caitlyn Clark last 12 games second in the league and scoring 23.4 points per game leading the league in assist they've won four straight okay they got the six spot in the playoffs clearly the Rookie of the Year clearly in the MVP conversation we got that out the way but before in the first hour I this is where the assist comes in you wanted to get at Molly a little bit not really her but just everybody because see we we we looking we looking for everybody that got on us you understand when we talked about Caitlyn Clark who by way indever in in in Indiana Fever they leading the league in attendance all right they leading the league in attendance averaging over 15,000 a game the largest attendance has been like 20366 I think that was the game against the Las Vegas Aces they had another 20,000 in attendance for that game against the mystics all right we we talked about box office we talked about Talent we talk about what she brought to the table and nobody denied that but when we brought up dare I say the marketing dare I say Team USA dare I say Indiana F what she brings to the table all time attendance records all time attendance records right for the WNBA it it's it's amazing to me the way they got on me the way they got on sh Shay but but but sh Shay we we we we looking for we looking for folks right now now maybe they come on maybe they going to do their homework you know what I'm saying they going to get on us another day but today our day okay because Caitlyn Clark as we said putting on the show busting people you know what got Mitchell doing the same thing that girl something special she doing her thing we don't want to let sh act like excuse me we ain't paying attention to the others that are contributing M special we got that but Caitlyn Clark all right dropped 28 and 12 yesterday leading the league of assist doing her thing Shay I know you had stuff to say so I'm just going to lie it off of you yet again take it away my brother say what you got to say before we were so rudely interrupted by commercial break in the first hour take it away yeah yeah what Molly was trying to say is that Shannon look we understand that Caitlyn Clark is good but what about the women that laid the foundation when Michael Jordan was nobody talking about Connie Hawkins nobody was talking about wil Chamberlin nobody was doing that that's what we've always done we talked about the player that's currently playing that's not the say that there were women that built the league the Cheryl swoops the Cynthia Cooper the Lisa Leslie the pener that we we're not trying to dismiss them but as far as box office tell me the lady that came in with the she she's basically the LeBron James the kind of height that LeBron came into the NBA with Caitlyn Clark came to the WNBA with the same type of hype and she's backed it up and look at 177% of the flagrant files this year has been committed against Caitlyn Clark did you know that Stephen A 177% of the flagrant fils have been committed but you know what Molly and others will say that's just physical that's just basketball just imagine if 17% of the unnecessary roughness penalties called in the NFL happened against Patrick Mahomes nobody would think that's oh they just playing football no the NFL would do something when they started getting physical too physical with Michael Jordan they changed the rules and that's what we're seeing here if you make a basketball play I ain't got no problem with cuz sometimes Stephen I'm going to blocking shot and I might hit you upside the head I might hit you above the neck and shoulders area but when you take off running and you Sid Swip me tell me the basketball play in there there is no basketball play and y'all eating y'all were oh D with and I said it too I like look I said it's going to take us some time but when she figur it out because she has something that transfer her ability to pass the basketball that's transferable I need a jersey Indiana Fever send me a jersey yeah you do need a Jersy the biggest one you got listen to me I don't think anybody doubted her Talent it was just she was receiving all the accolades the praise for everything that was happening in the WNBA and she hadn't even played a game yet so people were just saying respect who did it before respect the other stars like the Asia Wilson's we're also seeing Angel Reese and others like that bringing attention to the league so it wasn't that anybody was was knocking her or denying it but also now she now she's backed it up so as far as the Olympic spot when it was just based purely on marketing and garnering attention we thought that was undermining the Integrity of the game until she really started Balling on the court which she did and you're right and you're 100% right and absolute could I just finish my thought is that okay yeah but Molly but we want to come back and answer you Molly and we run out of time we want to answer that because that's not correct it wasn't before she started playing they got on us after she started playing no no no no no this segment that shanon and I talking about she was the beginning when that happened how was she playing when she started off was she playing at the same level she's playing right now or has her game now evolved as the season went on no but she was playing well enough to get more credit to deserve the credit that she was getting and people were getting on us and you by the way M let them get on us better than the other women on the Olympic team at that point there someone else let ask your question we didn't say that Stephen A we said you need her because you want to market the sport and you saw nobody was really talking about Team USA during the Olympics that's what we were saying so if Caitlin Clark if people were resenting us for because they make Fe you guys tried to make it seem that if Caitlyn Clark was on the Olympic team we weren't gonna win the gold medal so if you take one of those guards off the Olympic team and you insert Caitlyn Clark Shannon no one was saying gold medal it was who was most deserving of the spot the other people that didn't have this said Molly come on earned it now they said both Molly they said both time reigning defending WNBA Champion Las Vegas Aces but the top topic of conversation would be the Rookie of the Year race between Indiana Fever Caitlyn Clark and the Chicago Skies Angel ree according to ESPN's Kevin Pelton Alexa filipo and Michael Vel who ranked the top 25 players in the WNBA Caitlyn Clark is ranked number 15 and Angel Reese is ranked number 19 Clark leads all rookies in scoring and is 13th overall she also leads the league in assist and turnovers let's not forget the fact that angel re is a walking double double let's not forget that let's not forget the fact that Team USA yes you walked home with the gold medal congratulations to you congratulations on the way you performed representing our country but having said all of that I'm going to reiterate something that I've said already you know Caitlyn Clark should have been on that team you know how much popularity that would have gone it right you know that the Indiana Fever done put out a bunch of notes about attendance records being broken and all of this other stuff because of that young lady you know Angel ree is a walking double double and she's an Energizer Bunny and her and Caitlyn Clark feeding off of one another to represent USA would have made Team USA Women's a box office attraction so that is an opportunity that y'all missed out to get your eth straight go gold medal congratulations to you the girl Gabby Williams almost took you out but neither here nor there bottom line is you won and you deserve props for it Caitlin CLK will will undoubtedly be on the team in 2028 as well as angrew Reese and we can go from there the storyline is going to be rookie of the year because that's what this comes down to and right now Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark are neck and neck yeah Caitlyn Clark is 13th in the league in scoring she's the league lead in assist she also leads the league in turnovers too and we get that part but she's leading the league in assist as a rookie she's a top 13 scorer in the league as a rookie Andrew ree is a walking double double they got an opportunity to make the playoffs as well so we got to look at all of that and I think the thing that can't go noticed is the fact that these two young ladies are box office drawers and I'm going to reiterate a point because I'm sick and tired of it being ignored we live in a world where we want to act like we get to ignore the importance of marketing marketing is what makes the world go around if you know how to Market if you know how to spend if you know how to promote it generates Revenue when revenue is generating more things happen better facilities better travel Arrangements better lodging not to mention better opportunities for you as individuals down the line you know why because if you're generating money what gravitates folks to you it's usually money in the world of business of course you know how to make money you know how to generate Revenue people want to do business with you because they see an opportunity for themselves it would build the WNBA it would build team USA's cache it would build women's basketball across the globe and then you won't have to worry about watching the WNBA negotiate 77 billion doll deals while you're struggling to reach 300 million now you don't have to get 77 billion but damn couldn't you got one maybe two or three didn't happen in large part because of marketing talent's there personalities are there culture is there certainly enough women out there to support your sport as well as the men because men be showing up to the games too hell I was at the WNBA finals last year I was there Courtside took my daughter to her first basketball game Courtside watching Asia Wilson do her thing against Banna Stewart and Sabrina UNESCO and we GNA go again but that's me there's a whole bunch of people out there to attract to your sport let's not forget the importance of that and oh by the way speaking of those finals I fully expect the Las Vegas Aces to be there I don't care about their struggles during the regular season these are the reigning two-time defending WNBA champions last time I checked as Asia Wilson the best player in the world she did last time I checked Kelsey Plum she did and last time I checked gray the point guard she did I'm sorry I ain't picking anybody to beat the Las Vegas Aces and I'm New York all day every day I want New York to win and damn it the Liberty I I I I hope they do their thing I ain't ignoring the Connecticut son either but I'm a New Yorker damn it I'm always rooting for New York but the Las Vegas Aces know how to win they know what it takes to win and Asia Wilson she's one of one make no mistake about it do not sleep on that young lady she is the best in the world in women's basketball 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