{"id":443878,"date":"2026-02-02T02:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/443878\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T02:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:18:08","slug":"caitlin-clark-hypes-lakers-luka-doncic-beats-jamal-crawford-in-shooting-competition-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/443878\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark Hypes Lakers’ Luka Doncic, Beats Jamal Crawford in Shooting Competition on Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caitlin Clark is gearing up for her third season in the WNBA, and the Indiana Fever star is hoping to model some of her game after an NBA star. <\/p>\n

During NBC’s pregame show ahead of Sunday’s matchup between the Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks, Clark said she “can learn from” Luka Don\u010di\u0107. <\/p>\n

“Luka’s amazing. He’s incredible,” Clark said. “I think the way he can not only score the ball but also the way he passes. And I think the thing about him, he’s not always the fastest, he’s not the most athletic, but he can make a defender move to where he wants him to go and he takes up that space and he does a really good job of keeping the defender behind him or keeping him to the side. I think that’s something I can certainly learn from.” <\/p>\n

Clark also weighed in on what NBA legend Michael Jordan had to say<\/a> about road crowds. <\/p>\n

“I feel fortunate, a lot of the arenas we go into, a lot of people are cheering for our team,” Clark said. “There are some road games, even the Liberty fans, San Francisco, the Valkyries have a good crowd. You want to take them out of it right away, you want to make them call the first time out… I like what he said, if you’re a star, these are the games you show up for.”<\/p>\n

In her NBC debut, Clark had the chance to play a game of HORSE with NBA icon Jamal Crawford. <\/p>\n

Clark has played in some historic venues throughout her career, but she’s still looking to take to the court in one of basketball’s most iconic venues: Madison Square Garden. <\/p>\n

“I don’t think the Liberty will want to move a game over here, but we’ll play anybody,” Clark said<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The New York Liberty play across the river at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, so there currently isn’t a WNBA team that calls MSG home, but with the way Clark draws a crowd, it wouldn’t be surprising to see her play in Madison Square Garden at some point in her career. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark is gearing up for her third season in the WNBA, and the Indiana Fever star is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-443878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}