Indiana Fever chooses Caitlin Clark as number one in the WNBA draft

The American professional basketball league awaits the most talented promotion in recent times. Leading the new wave of WNBA players is Caitlin Clark, the player who has revolutionized women's college basketball and aspires to mark an era in the professional league. As expected, Clark has been chosen first in the selection of new players, the draft. Indiana Fever won the lottery to have the right to the first choice, which this time came with its own name.

Caitlin Clark has been the first chosen and will play in Indiana with number 1. She will become a WNBA player next month, fulfilling the dream she had since she was a child. In elementary school, Caitlin Clark wrote a list of her goals and dreams that included one day playing in the WNBA. Her mother Anne still has the piece of paper Clark wrote it on. “It's pretty special, looking back on that sheet I was able to score a lot of goals,” Clark told the Associated Press on Sunday.

Clark took advantage of her presence in New York for the draft to make a surprise appearance on the television comedy show Saturday Night Live, in further proof of her unprecedented popularity in women's sports.

After leading the Iowa Hawkeyes to their third consecutive Big Ten championship (one of the groups in the first university division), the guard led her team to the national championship final, but was defeated for the second year in a row. Along the way he has managed to become more popular than any male college player and set college basketball's all-time scoring records. The final shattered viewership records for women's college basketball, but it was also much more watched than the men's final and even the NBA finals in recent years.

The WNBA awaits her arrival with an expectation comparable to that raised by Frenchman Victor Wembanyama in the NBA last year. In Indiana they are already looking forward to it. He compares her to Stephen Curry and speculates that he will have a similar impact on women's professional basketball as the Golden State Warriors star made in the NBA.

This is a great promotion of female players. Also fulfilling the forecasts, Cameron Brink, from Stanford University, has been selected in second place by the Los Angeles Sparks. And the third has also fulfilled the expectations: Brazilian Kamilla Cardoso, NCAA champion after defeating Caitlin Clark's team in the final with South Carolina, has been chosen by Chicago Sky. Angel Reese, whose rivalry with Clark fueled the passion for the college league, has been somewhat relegated because his outside shot is poor and his height is not enough to play center in the professional league.

But the league's current players are unimpressed. Diana Taurasi, 41, the WNBA's all-time leading scorer, comparable to LeBron James, left a message to the rookies in an interview on ESPN by Scott Van Pelt (known as SVP). “Look, SVP. Reality is coming. We all go through that. That happens in the NBA, and you're going to see it on this side. You seem superhuman playing against 18-year-old girls, but you are going to come with women who have been playing professional basketball for a long time.”

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