Caitlin Clark DESERVES LOVE for giving a voice to the WNBA! - Stephen A. Smith | First Take

On First Take, Stephen A. Smith gives credit to Caitlin Clark and all those who helped "give a voice to the voiceless" after it was announced the WNBA will be investing $50M for full-time charter flights for teams in the regular season.

[Darrin]

I rarely ever agree with Stephen A on anything, but he is ABSOLUTELY right on this. They made this change because Caitlyn commented on it. Salty WNBA players and female broadcasters need to acknowledge that Caitlyn is making things better for everyone involved in the WNBA.

[phillipowens]

The WNBA doesn’t want Caitlin Clarke flying commercial😎🤙

[kay-lee]

Caitlin took that one commercial flight and was like “nah we ain’t doing this” 😂

[carllosh]

Thank Caitlin Clark for the charter flights and for the money she brought in the league.

[lazym]

Caytlin Clark, the new face of the WNBA

[nothingspecial]

Somewhere rn Diana Taurasi is breaking glass and punching walls hearing Stephen A speak this way about Caitlin Clarke

[MicahMyMy]

Shout out to the reporter asking the RIGHT QUESTIONS. If reporters ask the right questions, players are more able to voice their opinions and evoke change.

[suite]

Stop hating. Caitlin Clark is a phenomenon. You may not understand why or how. But she’s putting eyes and ears to the WNBA.

[GregJAllison]

I watched that interview when Caitlin was asked about flying commercial and my jaw dropped when she mentioned the CBA and the early out at season end. I'm still stunned. She's 22! Who talks about a collective bargaining agreement at 22!?

[ChrissClutch]

She literally bought the whole league Charter flights. Thats nuts.

[TheHuskyK]

Caitlyn is almost single-handedly saving the WNBA and making it better for everyone involved. How can you hate on that?

[jtx]

If any wnba players still hate Caitlin Clark after this, they’re lost causes.

[thesean]

And the wnba still hates CC, when they should be thanking her.

[ashtonchapman]

They better stop hating on Caitlyn. She is bringing notoriety and money to these women.

[DoPl]

As a european i have to say i can't remember i've seen anything about WBNA on a TV or News ever. But since Caitlin Clark joined you actually hear, i would say on weekly bases about the WBNA.

[threedigletts]

The CC Effect. She's so good that everyone benefits.

[boondoggle]

It’s Caitlin Clark and the entire draft class of the WNBA this year that brought about this change. One thing I noticed that the coach of the Lynx said in the interview is that revenue is up a lot already this year, and that’s because there’s so much attention on that draft class. You saw what happened with the Sky game when it wasn’t televised on the app. Something similar happened last night with the Seattle Storm game because people wanted to see Nika Muhl play. I was watching a bootleg stream of the game on twitter from a fan in the stadium. Most of this is because of stars from this draft class. I’m going to be watching the Aces because Kate Martin made the team, and the Wings because of Jacy Sheldon. And of course Chicago because of Reese and Cardoso.

[mikemurray]

Caitlin said I’m not flying commercial lmao

[tudormiller]

Congrats Caitlin! I never watched a WNBA game before, until I watched the Wings vs Fever game the other night. I'll be following the WNBA this season here in 🇬🇧 I may even watch the women's basketball during the Olympics in 🇫🇷this year 👍👩🏀

[wvzvqon]

Clark single handedly has people watching WNBA highlights lmfao (well her highlights)