Sheryl Swoopes needs everybody to decelerate with the Caitlin Clark hype, and the WNBA legend spouted blatantly incorrect data to advance her narrative.
Swoopes, a four-time WNBA champion and three-time WNBA MVP, spoke at size about Clark throughout a latest look on the “Gil’s Area” podcast, which is hosted by former NBA star Gilbert Arenas. One of many methods through which Swoopes downplayed Clark’s accomplishments is by saying a document ought to solely be thought-about “authentic” if the participant breaks it in the identical period of time that the earlier document holder took to set it.
Clark is on the verge of changing into the all-time main scorer in Division I girls’s faculty basketball historical past. The Iowa star wants simply 66 factors to go Kelsey Plum, who scored 3,527 factors throughout her profession at Washington. One of many issues Swoopes ranted about is that Clark has performed longer than Plum performed, which is just not true.