Rebecca Lobo has been a part of the WNBA from the day it launched, first as a player and later as an analyst.
She’s seen elite talents who were dominant college basketball figures enter the league with varying degrees of hype.
But Lobo can never remember anyone quite like Caitlin Clark, not someone who became such an individual entity who fans flocked to follow.
“There’s no comparison that I can find on the women’s side, and I’ve been in this league since the very beginning,” the ESPN analyst and former Liberty star said ahead of Monday’s WNBA draft. “We haven’t seen a player drive ticket sales like this. We haven’t seen a play.
[I’ve] never seen anything to this degree, and to me one of the things that’s kind of special about it is that she’s staying in the Midwest; going to Indiana. It’s such a perfect fit in terms of that.
