{"id":447189,"date":"2026-02-01T12:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447189\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T12:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:43:07","slug":"caitlin-clarks-favorite-nba-team-will-disappoint-wnba-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447189\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark&#8217;s favorite NBA team will disappoint WNBA fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlin Clark is set to debut as an NBA analyst on Sunday, when the New York Knicks host the Los Angeles Lakers at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>It will mark Clark&#8217;s return to New York as part of NBC&#8217;s Basketball Night in America coverage. Of course, Clark has taken the court for the Indiana Fever at Barclays Center, where the New York Liberty play.<\/p>\n<p>But in 2024, during her rookie year in the WNBA, Clark appeared on a YES Network broadcast of a Texas Rangers-New York Yankees game, where she discussed her lifelong Yankees fandom and was asked about her favorite NBA team.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/wnba\/indiana-fever\/news\/fever-caitlin-clark-trying-something-new-amid-wnba-labor-talks\/43e9d06bb8e9cba88ee973eb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fever&#8217;s Caitlin Clark is trying something new amid WNBA labor talks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clark&#8217;s answer remains surprising. During the interview, Clark revealed her admiration for Stephen Curry and LeBron James, but she declined to name a favorite team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Caitlin Clark discusses the Olympics, Team USA&#8217;s comeback against Serbia, her love for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#NBA<\/a>, and so much more. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3BqtqJSUi6\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/3BqtqJSUi6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 YES Network (@YESNetwork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YESNetwork\/status\/1822333706389889476?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 10, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a huge fan of the NBA,&#8221; Clark said at the time. &#8220;I have it on as much as I can. I don&#8217;t really have a team. I&#8217;ve never really had a team. I just try to watch as much as I can, honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clark grew up in Des Moines, Iowa, meaning the nearest NBA team &#8212; the Minnesota Timberwolves &#8212; was nearly 250 miles away in Minneapolis. It&#8217;s understandable then that Clark never really latched on to an NBA team, though she is a vocal fan of the Yankees in MLB and the NFL&#8217;s Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark is set to debut as an NBA analyst on Sunday, when the New York Knicks host&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-447189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}