NWSL early storylines and surprises, plus what Caitlin Clark’s Nike deal means for the WNBA

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

Just Women’s Sports

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🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Claire goes deep on a number of NWSL teams, including why she likes Angel City’s recent trades, what Washington is doing right, and what Vlatko Andonovski seems to have learned from his time coaching the USWNT. Then, Claire breaks down Caitlin Clark’s massive new Nike deal and what it tells us about the economic realities of women’s basketball today.

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0:00.0	There's a wealth of players that are these NWSL newcomers, new signings to the American League that would not be quote unquote considered rookies.
0:09.2	I think the NWSL should be talking about that non-stop, should be specifically probably talking about
0:14.7	the talent that they are attracting from Africa and from South America, and I think they should make
0:18.5	an award for this.
0:19.5	So this is my official pitch for the NWSL in addition to the Rookie of the Year Award because I think that the college
0:24.3	players also deserve their own shine.
0:27.4	I'm going to put my pitch for a newcomer of the year award because I think MVP versus
0:32.1	Rookie doesn't always tell the whole story. So that's my pitch for that and I think
0:35.7	Kansas City is a really good example of why that's necessary.
0:38.6	Hello everybody and welcome to this week's edition of the late sub.
0:46.3	We are in the thick of it with the NWSL.
0:48.8	We are prepping for WMBA training camp.
0:51.8	It's time to go long on some of these leagues because we're getting into a groove and that is very exciting.
0:57.0	I love the summertime. It's women's sports utopia ahead. Let's talk about NWSL. Let's dig in. All right this week it is a
1:08.5	perfect time to do a deep dive on the NWSL.
1:14.0	Can't believe we haven't really done that a little bit.
1:15.8	There's a lot of basketball to talk about,
1:17.2	but we are now five games into the NWSL season.
1:21.4	That's almost a fifth of this year's regular season time is flying I like
1:27.1	this as a check-in point five games in we've already had an international break in there
1:31.0	we've seen teams have some time to train sometimes to move
1:33.6	players in move players out figure out their style of play and I also think that
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