Polarization of US politics reaches the basketball courts

Women’s basketball was crying out for a rivalry of this caliber. Caitlin Clark versus Paige Bueckers, the queen of Iowa versus the princess of Minnesota. Two white women of the same age and height who share a position on the court and broke records for early success in college basketball before making the leap to the WNBA, the best league in the world. Clark was the number one pick in the April 2024 draft and ended up with the Indiana Fever, a franchise in decline that she led to the playoffs for the first time in a decade. Bueckers, after tearing her cruciate ligament and spending a year and a half on the sidelines between 2022 and 2023, was the number one pick in April 2025 and landed with the Dallas Wings, a simply disastrous team that, thanks to her, is now beginning to look like it has a bright future.

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