Collier, along with New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart, is the founder of Unrivaled, a women’s three-on-three league that will start in Miami in January, giving WNBA players a chance to make money in the offseason without playing overseas.
In this way, Collier is a little like the great running back Red Grange, who wielded his popularity by starting a barnstorming football tour that helped popularize football in America.
Clark is remindful of someone a little more recent, and much more influential.
When Tiger Woods joined the PGA Tour at the age of 20, he was met with jealousy and incredulity.
Long before Fuzzy Zoeller made racist comments about Woods at the Masters, other golf pros were simply disgusted by what they believed was Woods’ unearned fame. They thought he was a sideshow, a novelty, instead of someone who would dominate the tour.
They were wrong in many ways. Woods would blow away the field at the Masters when he was 21 and go on to become perhaps the most dominant golfer ever during his prime.