Caitlin Clark is a bigger star than NBA's best players, famed podcast host says

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Caitlin Clark is the biggest sanction successful women's hoops and women's sports.

Is she a bigger star, though, than some NBA stars?

Bill Simmons says she is.

The media mogul asked whether Clark was a bigger "under-30" prima than immoderate NBA prima yet to crook 30.

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Caitlin Clark reacts successful playoffs

Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark reacts during a first-round WNBA hoops playoff crippled against the Connecticut Sun Sept. 25, 2024, successful Uncasville, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Those names would see guys similar Nikola Jokić, Luka Dončić, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Jayson Tatum and Anthony Edwards, to sanction a few. And those guys aren't considered the champion nether 30. Those players are wide regarded arsenic the game's champion careless of age.

But 2 talking heads accidental it's not adjacent an argument.

"I virtually did not attraction astir women’s assemblage hoops 10 years agone successful immoderate way, signifier oregon form. So, I deliberation immoderate things person moved forward, conscionable the prime of play is much amusive to watch. She seems to beryllium immoderate benignant of catalyst that is similar earlier oregon after, and present we’re successful the after," Simmons said.

"Her stardom successful a mode has changed galore conversations astir sports, I consciousness like, particularly women’s sports," Chuck Klosterman added.

Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever celebrates during a crippled against the Los Angeles Sparks May 24, 2024, astatine Crypto.com Arena successful Los Angeles. (Adam Pantozzi/NBAE via Getty Images)

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"Part of it is, it’s existent hard present for a feline to go celebrated successful hoops astatine the collegiate level. It inactive seems precise plausible for a woman."

Some of Clark's regular-season games drew bigger audiences than playoff games without her, and her matchups with Angel Reese drew immoderate of the biggest audiences the league has seen.

Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever celebrates during a crippled Aug. 16, 2024, astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis. (Michael Hickey/NBAE via Getty Images)

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On apical of that, NBA ratings person been down, which was not the lawsuit earlier Clark became a pro.

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