Caitlin Clark is right to snub Unrivaled, claims Skip Bayless after 'jealousy and resentment' WNBA star suffered

Skip Bayless claims that Caitlin Clark is close to skip the Unrivaled 3-on-3 league successful January aft the Indiana Fever prima walked with a people connected her backmost passim her rookie campaign.

WNBA stars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart founded the 3-on-3 league to supply an alternate for women's hoops players who typically play overseas during the offseason to marque up for fiscal gaps.

After the promising contention failed to onshore Clark connected their small, yet star-studded, roster, Bayless took to X to explicit his thoughts connected Clark waving disconnected the reportedly monolithic offer.

'Good for Caitlin Clark not playing successful this caller 3-on-3 league,' Bayless wrote. 'After each the jealousy and resentment she felt past play - each the inexpensive shots and bullying attempts - she made a late-season tally astatine MVP.

'SHE'S the crushed WNBA popularity exploded past season. She doesn't request 3-on-3,' helium continued.

After getting drafted by the Fever with the No 1 wide pick, Clark became a catalyst successful the WNBA's popularity soaring to unprecedented heights. Upon her entry, the league saw records breached for some attendance and viewership numbers.

However, Clark was besides connected the receiving extremity of 'welcome to the league' moments aboriginal into the season.

The astir infamous incidental was erstwhile she got body-checked by seasoned defender Chennedy Carter successful her archetypal crippled against assemblage rival Angel Reese and the Chicago Sky.

Clark got deed with 5 flagrant fouls and a fistful of adjacent calls. Four of the 5 flagrant fouls were committed by the Sky.

Nonetheless, Clark took attraction of concern connected the court, starring Indiana to their archetypal playoff quality since 2016. While the Fever got swept by Connecticut successful the archetypal round, Clark won the WNBA Rookie of the Year and made a tally for the MVP grant to headdress disconnected a spectacular campaign.

In October, Front Office Sports reported that Unrivaled offered Clark a lucrative woody akin to what Inter Miami handed Lionel Messi to bring him implicit to MLS from Europe.

Furthermore, respective of Clark's friends person already filled roster slots for the league's inaugural season. Namely Fever teammates Aliyah Boston and Lexie Hull and erstwhile Iowa teammate Kate Martin, who was drafted by the Las Vegas Aces this year.

After claims of taking her offseason distant from the crippled were followed by hints of her participation, the plans to get her connected committee yet failed to materialize.

Unrivaled volition beryllium based successful Miami, Florida, and its inaugural play volition statesman successful January 2025. The league volition diagnostic 30 players from the WNBA and NCAA and person the highest mean salaries successful women's sports history.

On Oct. 16, Unrivaled announced a multi-year media rights woody with TNT. Games volition besides beryllium disposable connected Max and truTV.