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Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark has stolen the hearts of millions throughout her rookie season in the WNBA. Whether it be her play on the court or her maturity off, fans have been left amazed with the former Iowa Hawkeyes star. But what about the rest of the players in the league? Former NBA star Charles Barkley certainly thinks there is “petty jealousness” towards Clark from other WNBA players. His “Inside the NBA” co-analyst Shaquille O’Neal would agree with Barkley but with a slightly different approach. In an interview with USA Today, Shaq opened up on the WNBA’s jealousy of Clark and gave a comparable example. “There’s envious jealousy, there’s professional jealousy,” O’Neal said. “Sure, there’s a lot of people who are professionally jealous. I am. I’m professionally jealous of a lot of people. I’m professionally jealous of Steph (Curry). He makes $60 million. But hey, that’s life.
Clark signed a four-year, $338,056 contract after being selected with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 draft. Her first year’s salary is $76,000, and the average WNBA salary is $102,000. At first glance, it may be difficult to agree with Shaq’s Curry comparison, but you have to factor in endorsement deals. Clark signed the richest endorsement deal by any women’s basketball athlete ever. The deal is for eight years, $28M, or $3.5M per year. That’s more earnings in one year than some of these WNBA players will make throughout their entire career.
In her rookie season, Clark has proved to be worth every penny. She has led the Fever to the playoffs for the first time since 2016 and has broken many WNBA records along the way. O’Neal spent 19 seasons in the NBA, becoming a 15-time All-Star, winning four championships, an MVP award and three NBA Finals MVPs.
The pundits have had nothing but good things to say about Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever now that they’re in the midst of an absolute tear. The Fever are coming off a 104-100 overtime victory over the Atlanta Dream on Sunday, September 8, which marked their eighth win in 10 games played since the mid-season Olympic break. One analyst who has jumped on the Indiana hype train is ESPN’s Monica McNutt, who incidentally, wasn’t exactly the biggest Caitlin Clark fan earlier in the season. In fact, the former NCAA star took a lot of flack when she covered one of the Fever’s games earlier in the season, with some fans even going as far as branding her as a Clark hate
At this point, however, McNutt has been much more liberal when it comes to heaping praise on Clark and the Fever. In a recent episode of ESPN’s “WNBA Countdown,” the analyst had nothing but good things to say about Clark, her All-Star teammate Aliyah Boston and the rest of the Indiana squad. “[Clark and Boston] have been the second-best scoring duo in the league behind A’ja Wilson and Jackie Young,” McNutt pointed out. “It has been so incredibly efficient. … To me, the numbers bear it out. They have been on a terrific tear since the All-Star break. But it also looks like they’re playing with joy. They are gelling and having fun.”