Caitlin Clark’s buying and selling card reputation blows away different feminine stars

Caitlin Clark retains piling up dominant numbers. 

Clark attracted historic viewership and attendance for her basketball video games this yr, each in faculty and the WNBA.

And with the buying and selling card business booming, Clark made historical past, turning into the primary lady included within the Skilled Sports activities Authenticator’s (PSA) High 10 most-collected basketball gamers of the yr.

She got here in at No. 6.

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Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever poses for a photograph throughout her introductory press convention April 17, 2024, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.  (Ron Hoskins/NBAE through Getty Photos / Getty Photos)

Clark had over 77,000 buying and selling playing cards graded by PSA. And what units her other than the remainder of her feminine competitors is how far she surpassed them by.

UConn star Paige Bueckers got here in second with simply 5,400 playing cards, whereas Angel Reese’s 4,700 playing cards got here in third. That signifies that Clark had over 14 occasions extra playing cards graded than Bueckers and practically 16 occasions what Reese had.

This new knowledge comes shortly after it was revealed that Clark’s Indiana Fever bought 90 occasions extra tickets on StubHub this yr than they’d in 2023. The staff with the second-highest enhance was Reese’s Chicago Sky, and the Fever’s gross sales have been practically double (93% extra).

A number of WNBA playoff video games with out Clark nonetheless had fewer viewers than Clark’s regular-season video games, and the Clark-Reese battles had viewership that hadn’t been seen in over twenty years.

Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark (22) rushes up the court docket Could 9, 2024, throughout a preseason recreation towards the Atlanta Dream at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis Could 9, 2024. (Grace Hollars/USA At the moment Sports activities / IMAGN)

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Clark was named the Rookie of the Yr for her historic marketing campaign throughout which she set the file for probably the most assists in a single season in league historical past. She carried the Fever to a playoff look after a gradual begin, and she or he shortly turned a double-double machine. She even set a single-game file with 19 assists and in addition turned the primary rookie to file a triple-double, registering two of them. She acquired probably the most votes for the All-Star Recreation and was simply the fifth rookie in league historical past to make the All-WNBA first-team. 

She parlayed all of this into turning into Time’s Athlete of the Yr, which acquired criticism from Washington Mystics proprietor Sheila Johnson.

“Why couldn’t they’ve put the WNBA on that cowl and say, ‘The WNBA is the league of the yr’ due to all of the expertise that we now have,” Johnson mentioned. “If you single out one participant, it creates arduous emotions. So, now you’re beginning to hear tales of racism throughout the WNBA, and I don’t need to hear that.”

Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever talks to the media throughout an introductory press convention April 17, 2024, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Ron Hoskins/NBAE through Getty Photos / Getty Photos)

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However it’s clear Clark has drawn many extra eyeballs to the game, and she or he is, unquestionably, the most well-liked feminine athlete within the nation.

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