Ice Dice and his fellow BIG3 co-founder Jeff Kwatinetz consider that their provide to signal Caitlin Clark to their league was by no means introduced to her as her brokers are allegedly in cahoots with the NBA.
Final month, the California native provided the all-time NCAA main scorer $5 million to play in his three-on-three basketball league, which might make her the primary girl to take action. Nonetheless, she was later picked by the Indiana Fever throughout the 2024 WNBA draft. Her four-year contract reportedly totals to roughly $338,000 (a mean of about $84,500 a yr).
In an open letter penned by Kwatinetz and shared on the N.W.A veteran’s web site, the 2 accused the prodigy’s brokers of working for the “NBA mob.”
“We’ve got motive to consider these male brokers and executives controlling the game by no means even shared our trailblazing provide with Caitlin not to mention facilitated Caitlin assembly with the BIG3 to debate the chance,” it reads.
“From our perspective, these representatives don’t appear to work for a person consumer like Caitlin. They appear to work for the NBA mob, as their consumer checklist is a who’s who of NBA gamers.
“Can we anticipate them to prioritize Caitlin over the NBA – the highest employer of their most extremely paid purchasers? The NBA instructions by concern, they usually ensure that their business of brokers, attorneys, managers and networks keep in line. And that line is to stop BIG3 success, even when it stunts the expansion of girls’s basketball. Amid present negotiations of important NBA new media offers, you’ll be able to think about the stress on the NBA feeder system simply trumps any of Caitlin’s or different promising girl gamers’ greatest pursuits.”
The general public assertion went on to explain the cash she may have made by signing with BIG3, which might be way over her present contract: “Ten million {dollars} of wage over two years, a proportion of workforce possession value hundreds of thousands, fifty p.c of merchandising revenues from her title and likeness and possession of a BIG3 documentary with a seven-figure advance. In complete, we’re speaking fifteen million {dollars} or extra to merely play a ten-game season. Whereas nonetheless permitting her to play within the WNBA.”
For her half, Clark appeared to brush off the BIG3 provide quickly after it went viral on-line.
“To be trustworthy, I came upon in regards to the Big3 factor on the precise time you all did, and my essential focus is on simply taking part in basketball,” she mentioned.
“I truthfully don’t speak about these issues with actually anyone. I’ve different folks that take care of it, they usually haven’t mentioned a phrase to me about it. My essential focus is on this workforce and serving to us discover a approach to beat Colorado and hopefully win one other one after that.”
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