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Kelvin Washington: “When you look at the way she empowered the sport itself, they got charter jets! They got more than 54 million unique viewers, which is the most ever, the most watched WNBA games on all networks were the games she played in. She broke all the WNBA home attendance records. I even took my family to see her here in LA!”
Rob Parker: “There are a couple things, which to me, take her out of it. She didn’t win a national championship this year, and for as well as she played with the eyeballs, she wasn’t even on the Olympic team. That’s your athlete of the year? That makes no sense to me! What about Shohei Ohtani’s year?”
Time magazine named their 2024 Athlete of the Year on Tuesday afternoon, awarding the honor to Indiana Fever SG Caitlin Clark over Dodgers DH Shohei Ohtani. Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington debated the selection, and while Kelvin is ok with the choice, Rob thinks it’s clearly Shohei Ohtani!