Hump Day History


 TIME has only been celebrating Athlete of the Year since 2019, but Caitlin Clark is the first WNBA player to earn the honor.

She is the reigning Rookie of the Year, scoring 769 points over the season, which is a rookie record.  She also had 337 assists, 122 three-pointers, both records, and 2 triple-doubles, the first by a rookie in WNBA history.

She led the Indiana Fever to their first playoff appearance since 2016, and the team played the most watched WNBA games ever.  The entire WNBA saw an all-time record of 54 million unique viewers across all its national broadcasting platforms.

When asked to define her year in one word, Clark chose "historic."

The article mentions Serena Williams and Simone Biles, how it's one thing to rally around star athletes during global spectacles, but quite another to turn a regular season of a league long neglected into appointment viewing.




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