{"id":568930,"date":"2026-03-29T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568930\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:12:07","slug":"wnba-stars-caitlin-clark-comment-draws-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568930\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Star&#8217;s Caitlin Clark Comment Draws Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> stars <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/tag\/caitlin-clark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin Clark<\/a> and Rae Burrell powered Team USA\u2019s victory streak during the 2026 FIBA Women\u2019s World Cup qualifiers. Their efforts helped the squad finish the tournament undefeated.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. women\u2019s basketball team posted a perfect 5-0 record, dominating every game throughout the tournament in San Juan, Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>Clark emerged as Team USA\u2019s most consistent contributor despite starting only one of five games. The <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/wnba\/indiana-fever\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Fever<\/a> guard posted team-leading totals of 58 points and 32 assists. For her standout performance, FIBA named her the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/wnba\/indiana-fever\/caitlin-clark-earns-new-nickname-after-career-development-team-usa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tournament MVP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Burrell, on the other hand, joined the roster as an injury replacement. The <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/wnba\/los-angeles-sparks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Sparks<\/a> forward played her part for the national squad, providing quality minutes off the bench.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WNBA stars Caitlin Clark and Rae Burrell powered Team USA\u2019s victory streak during the 2026 FIBA Women\u2019s World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-568930","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\/568930","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=568930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}