The AP reports that Caitlin Clark has been left off the Olympic women's basketball roster. Why even follow the sport after college? The US's most popular player allowing WNBA teams to move their games from 4,000 seat arena to selling out 20,000 seat arena only when she is in town isn't going to be on our Olympic roster even though she has elevated the sport like no one else in history. The people who control women's basketball don't like fans and certainly don't want to grow their game.
Edit: the story has been edited with some spin trying to justify the why, but that isn't how Olympic participants are chosen. That is why there is no big hoop de hoo about the Olympic trials anymore. They are chosen on a holistic look now not just some single day or weekend competition.
https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/40304459/reports-caitlin-clark-usa-basketball-national-team-roster
Edit: the story has been edited with some spin trying to justify the why, but that isn't how Olympic participants are chosen. That is why there is no big hoop de hoo about the Olympic trials anymore. They are chosen on a holistic look now not just some single day or weekend competition.
https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/40304459/reports-caitlin-clark-usa-basketball-national-team-roster