Caitlin Clark was 'really upset' at WNBA Draft for this reason

Caitlin Clark lived retired her lifelong imagination successful aboriginal April erstwhile she was the archetypal enactment successful the WNBA Draft by the Indiana Fever aft a record-breaking vocation astatine Iowa.

Despite feeling the highest of highs, it inactive was not a cleanable nighttime for the women's hoops phenom.

Clark made the travel to New York for the draught and appeared connected "Saturday Night Live," and she joked she got "two hours of sleep" and had "zero recollection" of the weekend.

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Caitlin Clark poses with WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert aft Clark was selected with the No. 1 wide prime by the Indiana Fever successful the 2024 WNBA Draft astatine Brooklyn Academy of Music successful Brooklyn, N.Y., April 15, 2024. (Brad Penner/USA Today Sports)

But determination was 1 happening that stuck retired to her. She wasn't capable to ticker the remainder of the draft, missing retired connected immoderate large moments with immoderate friends.

"I was truthful upset because, aft I got drafted, I conscionable got cause retired immediately, and I didn’t get to spot immoderate of the draft. I had my phone, but I really couldn’t spell connected it. It made maine truthful upset," Clark said connected the "Fresh Talk" podcast with respective of her erstwhile Hawkeyes teammates. 

"I didn’t adjacent get to spot Kate [Martin] get drafted. … It made maine truly upset. Then we went and had fun, but … I didn’t even instrumentality pictures with you guys, my family, [boyfriend] Connor [McCaffrey] — nary one."  

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

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Clark became 1 of the hottest topics successful each of sports passim the year, some for her accomplishment connected the tribunal and what galore considered jealousy due to the fact that her superstardom changed the scenery of women's basketball.

Others contended Clark and Angel Reese were being utilized successful a "race war."

Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever and Angel Reese of the Chicago Sky during a crippled June 1, 2024, astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis.  (Jeff Haynes/NBAE via Getty Images)

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But Clark is surviving up to her billing arsenic the No. 1 pick. She recorded the astir assists successful a azygous play and was 1 ballot shy of unanimously winning the Rookie of the Year award.

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