Ice Dice must wait a bit longer to get a solution from Caitlin Clark on his $5 million Big3 provide … the Iowa celebrity simply revealed she hasn’t thought of the deal but — as her present focus is solely on profitable the NCAA event.
The 22-year-old spoke with reporters about Dice’s proposal on Friday afternoon — sooner or later earlier than she’s slated to take the court docket towards Colorado within the Candy 16 — and she or he made it clear, it isn’t even remotely on her thoughts proper now.
In actual fact, she stated she simply realized of the provide this week — at “the identical actual time you all did.”
“I truthfully do not discuss these issues with actually anyone,” Clark stated. “I’ve different people who cope with it. They have not stated a phrase to me about it. And, my major focus is on this crew and serving to us discover a strategy to beat Colorado and hopefully win one other one after that.”
We broke the story … Dice put the deal on Clark’s desk only in the near past — providing her life-changing dough to play in as few as eight video games. The rap legend and Big3 honcho, although, stated on Wednesday he had but to listen to a “sure” or a “no.”
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Nonetheless, he is clearly holding out hope she’ll finally take him up on the provide … telling Pat McAfee on Wednesday, “This can be a particular state of affairs, a particular participant that is shifting the needle in a variety of completely different areas, , scores, attendance, ticket gross sales.”
“In fact, our sponsors are very focused on a participant like this. That is our first have a look at planning to go after this aggressively as a result of we all know it might transfer the needle within the league and that is the place we wanna be.”
If Clark wins Saturday, she’ll play once more within the Elite Eight on Monday. The following contests after that will be the Last 4 on April 5, and the championship on April 7.
Dice then might get his reply quickly after … so, keep tuned.
