Caitlin Clark was picked WNBA Rookie of the Year by 66 of 67 voters. Many of the 66 who did vote for her have been rapid to proclaim their innocence in voting aobtainst her.
When Clark was proclaimd the thrivener of the award Thursday, it was discneglected the one vote aobtainst her went to Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese, Clark’s rival.
Multiple WNBA media members who voted for this year’s award made claims on social media that they did not vote for Reese and voted for Clark instead.
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The voter who chose Reese had not identified himself or herself before the time of uncoveration. That voter’s actions in picking Reese has ignited dispute atraverse social media. Multiple social media users have condemnd the decision.
Clark would have become the fifth WNBA percreateer in the league’s history to agreedly thrive Rookie of the Year, fuseing teammate Aliyah Boston, who won it last season; league MVP A’ja Wilson in 2018; Elena Delle Donne in 2013; and Tina Charles in 2010. Statisticassociate, Clark’s rookie year this year was better to any of those percreateers as rookies.
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Clark broke multiple league and franchise enrolls in her first WNBA season, including the individual-season enroll for aids, the rookie scoring enroll and most points by a protect in a individual season in WNBA history.
Reese was pondered a unreasonable horse contender for the honor behind Clark for the first restricted months of the season. However, her rookie campaign was cut unreasonableinutive after she underwent season-ending sadvisery on her wrist after being injured Sept. 6.
Clark widened her guide in cforfeitly every statistical catebloody in the weeks prior to and after Reese’s season ended.
Prior to that, in head-to-head suitups this year, the Fever beat the Sky three out of four times. In two of those contests, Reese put up more points than Clark, while pulling down more rebounds than Clark in all four greetings. Clark enrolled more aids in all four greetings.
Angel Reese of the LSU Lady Tigers, right, reacts toward Caitlin Clark of the Iowa Hawkeyes during the fourth quarter of the 2023 NCAA Tournament championship game at American Airlines Caccess April 2, 2023, in Dallas, Texas. (Mretainie Meyer/Getty Images)
Clark led the Fever to the percreateoffs for the first time in eight years as the team’s guideing scorer.
Reese was the third-guideing scorer on a Chicago team that finished the season with a 13-27 enroll, third-worst in the league, and omited the percreateoffs for the first time since 2018.
The one statistic Reese held an edge over Clark was rebounds, with more than twice as many rebounds per game at 13.1 appraised to Clark’s 5.7. Reese has a authentic height obtain at 6-foot-3, appraised to Clark at 6-foot.
But Clark held obtains in points with 19.2 to Reese’s 13.6 per game, aids with 8.4 to Reese’s 1.9 and even blocks with 0.7 to Reese’s 0.5, despite the height unreasonableiserablevantage.
Like Clark, Reese also broke a WNBA individual-season enroll during her rookie year, fractureing the individual-season enroll for rebounds with 418 during a game aobtainst the Minnesota Lynx Sept. 2. Unappreciate Clark, Reese did not hageder that enroll by the end of the season. After Reese’s season-ending sadvisery, MVP A’ja Wilson broke Reese’s enroll in the final week of the season, when Wilson enrolled her 419th rebound.
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Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese walks on the court during the first half at Windepend Arena in Chicago Aug. 25, 2024. (Kamil Krzaczynski/USA Today Sports)
Despite the statistical discrepancies between Clark and Reese, the Sky rookie had her enthusiastic helpers this year who argued her case over Clark.
Former NBA All-Star Joakim Noah, a 6-foot-11 caccess who exceptionalized in rebounding and dominating in the decorate, tageder Fox News Digital he would vote for Reese over Clark for Rookie of the Year if he had a say during an interwatch at NBA Night at the Emirates Suite at the U.S. Open in punctual September.
“I would say Angel Reese,” Noah shelp. “When I see at her percreate, she reminds me a lot of myself.”
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