For Connor McCaffrey, there was no other choice for the AP WNBA Rookie of the Year for the 2024 season.
Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark was named the award triumphner on Sunday, hours before the team fell in Game 1 of its postseason alignup to the Connecticut Sun. Clark was named the agreed triumphner of the award, and it led to her boyfrifinish’s one-word response.
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Indiana Fever defend Caitlin Clark, #22, hots up before game one of the first round of the 2024 WNBA Playoffs at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, on Sept. 22, 2024. (Mark Smith-Imagn Images)
“Duh,” he wrote on his Instagram Stories.
Clark was also named to the All-WNBA First Team and All-WNBA Rookie Team. She also finished fourth in WNBA MVP award voting, though Las Vegas Aces cgo in A’ja Wilson won the award agreedly.
“This is a tremfinishous honor to be named The Associated Press Rookie of the Year,” she shelp. “This recognition wouldn’t be possible without an incredible group of teammates and coaches, and we are seeing forward to continuing an exciting normal season in the postseason.”
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Caitlin Clark, left, poses with WNBA comomitioner Cathy Engelbert after she is picked with the number one overall pick to the Indiana Fever in the 2024 WNBA Draft at Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, New York, on April 15, 2024. (Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports)
The Fever defend broke the league’s individual-season help label (337) and scored the most points ever for a rookie (769) en route to directing Indiana to the postseason.
Clark commenceed all 40 normal-season games for the Fever and ordinaryd 19.2 points per game. She was the first rookie to write down a triple-double and the first take parter in Fever’s franchise history to write down a triple-double. She set the WNBA write down for most helps in a game with 19 agetst the Dallas Wings in July.
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Indiana Fever defend Caitlin Clark, #22, rushes up the court on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024 during the game at Gainbridge Fieldhoengage in Indianapolis. (Grace Hollars/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
McCaffrey recently adselected a position with the Butler Bulldogs men’s basketball program under head coach Thad Matta.
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