Caitlin Clark set a WNBA record with 19 assists in Indiana‘s final game before the break, adding another feather to her cap.
This comes on the heels of Clark being left off the Team USA roster for the upcoming Paris Olympics, as well as the newly-minted All-Star declining to participate in the upcoming 3-point competition — sending basketball fans into a frenzy.
Colin Cowherd explained why Clark’s absence from the Paris Games team and in the iconic 3-point contest is “silly” considering all Clark has done for the sport already on Thursday’s episode of “The Herd.”
“She’s a rookie on a bad team,” Cowherd said of Clark. “She has scored or assisted on 66 points — 71% of the Fevers points. That’s the most ever in league history. She’s breaking records every week, so part of the silliness of not allowing her on the Olympic team is [that] she was a very quickly improving player, and now you kind of look silly.
“She’s arguably the best playmaker in the league [and] arguably the second-best 3-point shooter in the league. I don’t know, [those attributes] seem valuable in Olympic competition.”
Clark is averaging 17.1 points, 5.8 rebounds, 8.2 assists and 1.5 steals per game through 26 games (all starts).
Paul Pierce reacted to Clark’s record-breaking game on Thursday’s “Undisputed,”…
