WNBA's bizarre national anthem controversy shows just how much the league needs Caitlin Clark

Caitlin Clark isn't quite the women's basketball equivalent of Tiger Woods, but there's a reason she's been compared to the 15-time major champion.

She brought millions of new eyeballs to a league that had long struggled for mainstream attention. She's also a marketing juggernaut, with endorsement deals from the likes of Nike, Gatorade and State Farm. But like Tiger in his prime, perhaps the greatest measure of Clark's star power is that when she's absent — the audience is, too.

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