What Caitlin Clark Is Afraid Of

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 45 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.0	She's so much more self-aware at 21 than Michael Jordan was at 50.
0:11.0	Right after this ad.
0:12.0	You're listening to Draft Kings Network. So just the very first thing that I need you to know today is that I like much of America
0:39.8	have been paying a lot of attention to Caitlin Clark,
0:43.7	who is a bona fide cultural phenomenon at this point
0:47.0	at age 22, having spent the last six months
0:49.9	being the most popular and most overhiked and most underrated women's
0:56.5	basketball player in existence. And that is on top, by the way, of being
1:02.2	grade A clickbait for all of this online culture war
1:06.3	bullshit, which we'll get to later.
1:09.6	But what is wild to me, most of all, is that while we love arguing about Caitlin Clark as a country
1:16.7	Caitlin Clark herself never engages even as she was left off the U.S. Olympic team and being debated all across the W.
1:26.2	NBA.
1:27.2	What was your level of disappointment not hearing your name on the roster?
1:31.6	Honestly, no disappointment.
1:32.8	Like I think it just gives you something to work for.
1:35.5	You know, that's a dream.
1:36.3	You know, hopefully one day I can be there.
1:37.9	And I think it's just a little more motivation.
1:41.0	You remember that and, you know, hopefully in four years, when four years comes back around you know I can be
1:45.0	there. I cannot think of another athlete in America right now who is this
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