Caitlin Clark turns down Unrivaled: Fever star will not play in new basketball league, per report

[RandySF]

Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark has decided not to play in Unrivaled, the new 3-on-3 women's professional basketball league, according to Michael Voepel. Clark's decision not to accept an offer is a big blow for the upstart organization cofounded by Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier.

Unrivaled, which has been years in the making, is set to tip off in January. The new league, which announced the rosters for its six teams on Wednesday, was created to offer WNBA players an alternative to going overseas during the offseason.

"For a long time, going overseas was the only option that people had in their offseason, and so this is kind of changing the narrative around that and giving another option," Collier said earlier this year. "Overseas is a great option for some players, but it shouldn't be the only thing you can do to make money and play basketball and get better."

Unrivaled reportedly put together a "full court press" to try and convince Clark to join, which included a salary north of $1 million for the eight-week season. While it's still unclear exactly why Clark said no, she just completed a grueling run in which she played an entire NCAA and WNBA season in less than 12 months.




https://www.cbssports.com/wnba/news/caitlin-clark-turns-down-unrivaled-fever-star-will-not-play-in-new-basketball-league-per-report/

[questionseverything]

1. Because 3 on 3 ain't basketball 🏀

[FBaggins]

2. And traveling overseas on someone else's dime...

… isn’t torture

[Henry203]

3. Three on three

Is a key foundation of basketball. Anyone who has played a lot of hoop loves 3 on 3. It incorporates a guard, forward and a center. Many times basketball divides the court with one side playing 3 on 3 and the other side 2 on 2. Three on three allows you to have a post player and people cutting off the post.

[rurallib]

4. iowa high school girls basketball until about 1990

very boring - maybe Caitlin heard the stories growing up.

ETA - Iowa girls played 6 on 6 which was a game where there were basically 2 games of 3 on 3 going on at once. A team had 6 players 3 forwards in one court that only played offense and 3 guards in. the other half of the court. The guards only played defense.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. A Lady I Knew...

...(I played golf with her & her husband) played that style of basketball when she was a kid.
She said she enjoyed it at the time, but later realized she only learned how to play half the game. She was always in defense. Never shot, never dribbled, never passed the ball, except across the half court line.
Her granddaughter was starting to play & she realized that she couldn't really help her. It frustrated her, because the granddaughter knew grandma played basketball but couldn't help.

[rurallib]

7. While it was really limiting, until @ 1980 Iowa was about the only

state offering high school basketball for girls. The other was Oklahoma.

Iowa offered a pretty full range of sports for girls long before anyone else. I was proud of my state for that, even though the basketball was strange.

Added to that strangeness was that girls bball was only played in small cities and rural towns. Mostly towns below 10,000 as I recall - could have been smaller.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. That's True

In Illinois, the HS association held the first state tournament for girls in 1976. That said, the schools in the town where I lived didn't all have teams until probably 2 years later. (There were 5 high schools)
If I recall correctly, this friend grew up near Ames. But, I don't think actually IN Anes. She grew up on a farm. So, she may have been a small town as you desribe.

[RandySF]

10. Title IX brought women's basketball to the level it's at today.

Early access to training, facilities and equipment.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Certainly

Before T9, girls' sports were a mere afterthought.

[justgamma]

9. We didn't have it in school,

but played in a summer league. What I remember most was the popular girls got to make the baskets and the rest of us were guards and never the twain shall meet.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Let Her Played Golf

She's having some time off. I'd say she deserves it.