The Indiana Fever, their new team, have already sold out for the entire season a month before the initial jump. The player is called to revolutionize the WNBA, the women's professional league.

Her arrival has raised expectations comparable to that of Frenchman Victor Wembanyama a year ago. Even the president of the United States, Joe Biden, is scandalized. "Women in sports continue to push new boundaries and inspire us all. But now we see that, even if they are the best, women are not paid what they are entitled to," Biden tweeted this Tuesday from his official account. The 350-page WNBA collective bargaining agreement establishes the base salary for players joining the league. For the first four selected in the draft, the salary is $76,535 the first year; $78,066 the second year. The final of the university championship (NCAA) on April 7 shattered viewership records for women's basketball. It had an average of 18.9 million viewers, with peaks of 24 million, almost quadruple that of the final two years ago. Clark comes to a 12-team league whose broadcast rights have local interest and generate only about $60 million annually. The NBA, which has become a global competition, has 30 teams and generates more than $2.5 billion a year in television rights, in addition to other income from box office, jersey sales, sponsorships, and other products. She is showered with contracts: she lends her image to the State Farm insurance company, the Nike sports brand, Gatorade drinks, and Hy-Vee supermarkets, among other brands. The traditional arguments about the business generated by male and female athletes break down in the case of Caitlin Clark, writes David Perry in The Wall Street Journal. The market doesn't seem to have worked very well in that case either.