{"id":508121,"date":"2026-03-06T23:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/508121\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T23:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:18:15","slug":"caitlin-clark-declared-most-influential-female-athlete-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/508121\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark declared ‘most influential’ female athlete of all-time"},"content":{"rendered":"

WNBA fans sorely missed watching Indiana Fever phenom Caitlin Clark dominate on the floor for the majority of the 2025 season, as she was sidelined throughout the campaign with various lower-body injuries.<\/p>\n

Clark is finally healthy again and will be suiting up for Team USA this month for the FIBA World Cup qualifiers in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It\u2019ll be the superstar\u2019s debut for the U.S. senior team, and she\u2019ll be entering her third season, but her star power is unparalleled.<\/p>\n

This year, Clark\u2019s debut signature sneaker will release, and it\u2019s one of the most anticipated sneaker releases of all time<\/a>. Now, one sports analyst is taking it to a new level when it comes to discussing her star power.<\/p>\n

Former NFL players Emmanuel Acho and LeSean McCoy discussed Coark on their \u201cSpeakeasy\u201d podcast, and McCoy\u2019s comments are sure to lead to debate online.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s like top three, might be two,\u201d\u00a0McCoy said, via OutKick.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cNo, she is one. She\u2019s the most influential women\u2019s athlete of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Serena Williams was great. But who was watching women\u2019s basketball? You weren\u2019t. I wasn\u2019t,\u201d McCoy continued. \u201cThen we get this girl like Steph Curry, and everybody watches it, to this day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen\u2019s basketball is looked at like the NBA, like the NFL. They\u2019ve got their own channels now on ESPN. When was the last time you heard people talking about women\u2019s basketball on TV? Now they\u2019re going to talk about Luka, and they\u2019re going to talk about Caitlin Clark.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, this is a controversial take. However, if Clark can stay healthy, it\u2019s hard to imagine anything stopping her from retiring as the greatest WNBA player ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WNBA fans sorely missed watching Indiana Fever phenom Caitlin Clark dominate on the floor for the majority of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[1760,14698,2839,14700,99,434],"class_list":["post-508121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-emmanuel-acho","tag-indiana-fever","tag-lesean-mccoy","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508121","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=508121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}