Caitlin Clark is being inundated with big money offers.
Wednesday, TMZ Ice Cube’s Big3 Basketball League reports he has made an offer The Iowa women’s basketball phenom was paid $5 million to play in eight regular season games and two playoff games this year.
The report added that Clark will also receive “significant additional compensation” incentives in the form of sponsorships and merchandise, and the league will also allow her to play in the WNBA.
Ice Cube appeared on “The Pat McAfee Show” and was asked what the chances of that happening were, to which he replied, “It’s always 50-50” until pen and paper meet on a contract.
Ice Cube reiterated on his show that it was “definitely possible” for Clark to compete in both leagues, and that CBS, which works with both leagues as a broadcaster, would “love” it.
It’s unclear whether the WNBA, whose maximum contract is in the low six figures, will grant that to Clark.
When McAfee’s co-host AJ Hawk asked Ice Cube who Clark would be paired with, Ice Cube answered Nancy Lieberman, a former women’s basketball star who won a championship as a coach in the Big 3. ) said he would be the “perfect” coach and mentor. If Clark wanted to do it.
After TMZ reported the offer, Ice Cube immediately I confirmed its validity in the thread of X.
“The offer was intended to remain private while Caitlin Clark was playing in the Championship. But I won’t deny that it’s already out there now. “We’ve made an offer. Why wouldn’t we? Kaitlyn is a generational athlete who could have tremendous success in the BIG3,” the league founder tweeted.
“Skeptics laughed when we made Nancy Lieberman the first female coach of a men’s pro team, but she won a championship in her first year. And Lisa Leslie in her second year. We’ve won it all. Our offer will allow Caitlin Clark to make history and break even more barriers for female athletes.”
Clark is a key figure in driving television viewers to Iowa State basketball games and will no doubt increase exposure for the Big Three.
In his tweet thread, Ice Cube referred to a “dictatorship” state in which female professional basketball players compete during the offseason to increase their income.
“American female athletes should not be forced to play offseasons in often gruesome and seedy foreign countries just to make ends meet,” he wrote.
“And at a time when American professional sports leagues are being overrun by authoritarian, anti-women regimes like Qatar, they should have more than one professional option in America. Our Breakthrough for Caitlin Clark This offer shows that BIG3 is providing athletes with new options.”
The Big3 is in its seventh season, starting June 15 in Oakland.
