Why Caitlin Clark's Rookie of the Year season is one of the best ever

Yahoo Sports basketball analyst Isis "Ice" Young and women basketball writer Cassandra Negley congratulate Caitlin Clark on her unforgettable rookie season and discuss some of the historic accolades that led her to the naming of 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year.

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Caitlin Clark wins 2024 rookie of the year for one of the best seasons we have ever seen from a rookie in the W NBA.

And even though it came with some ups and downs, if any other rookie season would have, I thought that she did a terrific job of weathering the storm and definitely deserves this award.

A couple of her stats that were just tremendous this season, 19.2 points is what CC averaged and then 8.4 a six a league best cat.

I know you love the assist that she put up this season for Caitlin Clark to come into a brand new league, an an incredibly competitive league and do that is very impressive.

She had two triple doubles again, like just something we don't historically see from any player, let alone a rookie.

She impacted really every part of the offense for them and certainly was one of the best rookies we have seen in this league in history.

I mean, the most assists in a season only rookie to record a triple double ever in the w she also led the league in threes made, she smashed the single season rookie assist record.

So many different records were broken almost every other night it seemed like, but a huge congratulations to Kaitlin Clark on winning rookie of the year in the W NBA.

Uh it's only year one for her and we're so excited to see what's to come.