For Connor McCaffrey, there was no different alternative for the AP WNBA Rookie of the Yr for the 2024 season.
Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark was named the award winner on Sunday, hours earlier than the crew fell in Sport 1 of its postseason matchup to the Connecticut Solar. Clark was named the unanimous winner of the award, and it led to her boyfriend’s one-word response.
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Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark, #22, warms up earlier than recreation one of many first spherical of the 2024 WNBA Playoffs at Mohegan Solar Enviornment in Uncasville, Connecticut, on Sept. 22, 2024. (Mark Smith-Imagn Pictures)
“Duh,” he wrote on his Instagram Tales.
Clark was additionally named to the All-WNBA First Staff and All-WNBA Rookie Staff. She additionally completed fourth in WNBA MVP award voting, although Las Vegas Aces heart A’ja Wilson received the award unanimously.
“This can be a super honor to be named The Related Press Rookie of the Yr,” she stated. “This recognition would not be doable with out an unbelievable group of teammates and coaches, and we’re wanting ahead to persevering with an thrilling common season within the postseason.”
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Caitlin Clark, left, poses with WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert after she is chosen with the primary total choose to the Indiana Fever within the 2024 WNBA Draft at Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, New York, on April 15, 2024. (Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports activities)
The Fever guard broke the league’s single-season help mark (337) and scored probably the most factors ever for a rookie (769) en path to main Indiana to the postseason.
Clark began all 40 regular-season video games for the Fever and averaged 19.2 factors per recreation. She was the primary rookie to document a triple-double and the primary participant in Fever’s franchise historical past to document a triple-double. She set the WNBA document for many assists in a recreation with 19 in opposition to the Dallas Wings in July.
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Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark, #22, rushes up the court docket on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024 through the recreation at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Grace Hollars/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK through Imagn Pictures)
McCaffrey not too long ago accepted a place with the Butler Bulldogs males’s basketball program underneath head coach Thad Matta.
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