The back drop to the movie, “White Men Can’t Jump”
Billy Hoyle is a former college basketball player who makes his living by hustling streetballers who assume he cannot play well because he is white.
BY now everyone knows who Caitlin Clark is. For the uninitiated she is the all time scorer in college basketball. Her time playing for Iowa Hawkeyes is legend. She was the number one draft pick going to the Indiana Fever. She filled stadiums like President Trump, people came to see her, she elevated the women’s game. The problem was her race, she was White. That was controversial to some, particularly a Black player.
Clark remarked concerning the trash talk from a Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson, who recently told The Associated Press that she believes there is a race element tied into Clark’s popularity.
“I think it’s a huge thing. I think a lot of people may say it’s not about Black and White, but to me, it is,” Wilson told the AP over the weekend.
The way we see it through our unbiased lens is what Americans as a whole sees it. Mostly Whites attend basketball games, whites are in the majority, Blacks 13%. If Whites choose to show their enthusiasm for one of their own, this is a great. Our Woman can play basketball too.