What Caitlin Clark Is Afraid Of
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
America generates an endless stream of opinions about Caitlin Clark, but there’s been almost no in-depth reporting about how her mind actually works. So before Clark’s Indiana Fever visit Angel Reese and the Chicago Sky tonight, Pablo sits down with Wright Thompson of ESPN: the only journalist who spent months getting to know Caitlin, her family, and her team at the University of Iowa, behind closed doors. And we find out what it’s like to live alongside a phenomenon who doesn’t process fear or emotion the way most human beings do… and how she’s been trying, privately, to change.
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| 0:32.6 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 0:34.7 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:38.8 | She's so much more self-aware at 21 than Michael Jordan was at 50. |
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| 0:49.6 | Thank you. So just the very first thing that I need you to know today is that I, like much of America, have been paying |
| 1:13.0 | a lot of attention to Caitlin Clark, who is a bona fide cultural phenomenon at this point at age |
| 1:19.6 | 22, having spent the last six months being the most popular and most overhyped and most |
| 1:27.4 | underrated women's basketball player in existence. |
| 1:32.2 | And that is on top, by the way, of being grade A clickbait for all of this online culture war bullshit, which we'll get to later. |
| 1:41.5 | But what is wild to me, most of all, |
| 1:48.4 | is that while we love arguing about Caitlin Clark as a country, |
| 1:52.6 | Caitlin Clark herself never engages, |
| 1:56.0 | even as she was left off the U.S. Olympic team and being debated all across the WNBA. |
| 1:59.7 | What was your level of disappointment not hearing your name on the roster? Honestly, no disappointment. Like, I think it just gives you something to work for. You know, that's a dream. You know, hopefully one day I can be there. I think it's just a little more motivation. You remember that and, you know, hopefully in four years, when four years comes back around, you know, I can be there. |
| 2:18.2 | I cannot think of another athlete in America right now who is this scrutinized and yet this |
| 2:25.7 | hit it in plain sight because we don't really know what Caitlin Clark is really feeling. |
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