Lexie Brown isn't holding back on the noise surrounding Caitlin Clark 's arrival in the league, especially during her rookie year.
Lexie Brown finds herself as a free agent following her release from the Seattle Storm , but she remains one of the most outspoken voices surrounding the league.
In the past, Brown didn't hesitate to critique Caitlin Clark on platforms like Gil's Arena, downplaying her lethal scoring threat as just a shooter. That commentary tapped directly into the broader friction surrounding Clark's entry into the WNBA.
From physical non-basketball fouls to intense media scrutiny over TV ratings and attendance spikes, the spotlight on Clark often triggered claims of jealousy from fans all over the world.
Caitlin Clark appears to be the name on everyone's mouths right now, setting historic records, routinely dropping 20-plus points and over eight assists per game while drawing packed, sellout arenas.
As an outsider looking in, Brooklyn Nets star Michael Porter Jr. was intrigued to find out more about how the WNBA players view Clark, which was a question he asked Lexie Brown on his YouTube channel.
He said: "Caitlin is obviously one of the faces of the league. Do other girls in the league, like do they respect that or do they kind of try to get at her, or how do they view that situation? Cause is there jealousy or what is it?"
Brown responded: "Yeah. No, I think that narrative that they put out was so weird. It was so annoying. Like the things that she was going through, it seemed magnified because of who she was and the caliber of player that she was and all the eyeballs that she was bringing to the women's game. So, I just feel like everything just looked way worse.
"But like I remember when I was a rookie, they was like I wasn't even playing. Like the fact that she was able to just play and, you know, figure out the game and have her mistakes and just grow within a season. That's for me as someone that, you know, I was number nine draft pick and I didn't play at all my rookie year. So from that perspective, from that lens, I was just like, "Wow, rookie, like they really just gave a the rookie the keys to the team." Like you rarely see that in the W. So from that perspective, I thought that was amazing.
But I think just the narratives and the conversations that were surrounding the league their rookie year was very toxic and annoying and weird. And yes, there were moments of probably excessiveness. I'm not going to say that there wasn't, but again, it was just all super magnified, but I've never been the person to take away the impact and the eyes and how much of a difference that that rookie class made to the W. Like they they were game-changing. And I I'm not I don't have an ego to be like, uh, you know, they they're all right. No, they like changed the landscape of the WNBA, that entire draft class."
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