{"id":687795,"date":"2026-03-30T11:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/687795\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:41:19","slug":"caitlin-clark-returns-to-nbcs-nba-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/687795\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark returns to NBC\u2019s NBA coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Vince Carter, Tracy McGrady, Caitlin Clark\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6TE62NFPDJGLXGWI4T7EHX6VZU.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Vince Carter, Tracy McGrady and Caitlin Clark talk before the game between the Knicks and the Thunder on March 29. Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Fever G Caitlin Clark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/01\/27\/clark-to-join-nbcs-sunday-night-basketball-pregame-coverage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/01\/27\/clark-to-join-nbcs-sunday-night-basketball-pregame-coverage\/\">reprised her role<\/a> as special contributor for NBC\u2019s \u201cBasketball Night in America\u201d before Knicks-Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/18\/wnba-and-union-reach-verbal-cba-deal-season-to-start-on-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/18\/wnba-and-union-reach-verbal-cba-deal-season-to-start-on-time\/\">new collective bargaining agreement<\/a> between the WNBA and its players: \u201cPeople put a lot of time and energy into it, took time away from their families. \u2026 Just really grateful and thankful.&#8221;On the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/20\/wnba-releases-cba-details-salary-cap-to-rise-above-11m-by-2032\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/20\/wnba-releases-cba-details-salary-cap-to-rise-above-11m-by-2032\/\">salary increase and revenue sharing components<\/a> in the new CBA: \u201cI think it sets a precedent for all of women\u2019s sports going forward, not just women\u2019s basketball. That we\u2019re truly valued and the product that we put on the floor is valued.\u201dOn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/23\/wnba-all-star-game-viewership-highlights-clark-impact-growth-potential\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/23\/wnba-all-star-game-viewership-highlights-clark-impact-growth-potential\/\">her role in the growth of women\u2019s sports<\/a>: \u201cIt was never my goal to change women\u2019s sports. I show up, played, and I loved every single second. I feel a responsibility to show up and put a smile on everybody\u2019s face that buys a ticket and comes to watch us play.\u201dOn Fever\u2019s upcoming season: \u201cWe were trying to win it all last season. That\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to do this year. \u2026 There\u2019s over 100 players in the league that are free agents. So we only really know about five people, or three people that are going to be on our team next year. But I feel like we have a great core\u201d (\u201cBasketball Night in America,\u201d NBC, 3\/29).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vince Carter, Tracy McGrady and Caitlin Clark talk before the game between the Knicks and the Thunder on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,74,6,458,465],"class_list":{"0":"post-687795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-wnba","12":"tag-womens-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116317948358028050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}