One of the biggest stories in women’s basketball this past year was Caitlin Clark’s omission from the U.S. Olympic basketball team. Clark — amid an up-and-down beginning to her rookie season on the Indiana Fever — was left off the 12-woman roster, a decision that instantly became a national controversy.
Critics railed USA Basketball for keeping her off the team, citing her growing popularity as reason why she should have been on the Paris Olympics roster.
Rather than Clark, the roster included guards with more veteran guards like Jewell Loyd, Kelsey Plum, Jackie Young, Chelsea Gray, Diana Taurasi, Sabrina Ionescu, and Kahleah Copper. Each of those guys
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