David Portnoy: “Leaving Caitlin Clark off the women’s Olympic team is the dumbest s— I’ve ever heard.”
The expected snub of Caitlin Clark from the U.S. Olympic women’s basketball roster for the summer games is a “missed opportunity,” Dan Dakich, host of OutKick’s “Don’t @ Me,” said Sunday.
“They could have had more eyeballs on women’s basketball, which would have equated to going back to your season and finishing up even stronger, but now it’s just same old, same old. No one’s going to pay attention, and that’s a missed opportunity, and a really dumb missed opportunity,” he told co-host Will Cain on “Fox & Friends Weekend.”
His comments came on the heels of a report from The Athletic saying the Indiana Fever star would be left off the final roster for the 2024 Paris summer games.
After being named to the national team’s 14-person roster for training camp in Cleveland, Ohio, in early April, she was unable to attend USA Basketball’s training camp because she was focused on playing for the Iowa Hawkeyes in the NCAA tournament.
USA Basketball has yet to formally confirm the roster for this year’s Olympic team, however.
While some reports speculate the decision stems from Clark’s rookie status, others like Dakich struggle to make sense of the move to leave her off the roster.
“There’s no basketball player that’s a bigger draw right now in the world — in the world, I would argue — than Caitlin Clark,” he said.
“Let’s be honest, most people didn’t even know they had women’s basketball in the Summer Olympics. Now you have a chance to do this, and you don’t take it… “
Clark has been credited with bringing attention to the WNBA amid the league’s long-term struggle with viewership.
The Washington Mystics, for instance, played against Clark’s team before a crowd of 20,333 at Capital One Arena on Friday, the largest attendance for a WNBA game since 2007, according to AP, which cited data from Across the Timeline.
“All I’ve heard for years is, ‘We’ve got to grow the game, pay attention to us, love on us,’ and now you have a real opportunity… ” Dakich added.
Former U.S. men’s soccer star Alexi Lalas, who recently spoke with Fox News Digital about Clark, weighed in, saying, “I don’t know enough about USA women’s Olympic basketball to know if Caitlin Clark’s omission is a snub. I do know that, right now, she would be the only reason I would remotely care about USA women’s Olympic basketball.”
Dave Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, sounded off in a post on X, formerly Twitter: “Leaving Caitlin Clark off the women’s Olympic team is the dumbest s— I’ve ever heard.”
OutKick contributor and “Gaines for Girls” host Riley Gaines, a former NCAA swimmer, wrote: “Caitlin Clark should be on the Women’s US Olympic Basketball team. That’s it. That’s the tweet.”
Fox News Digital’s Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.
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