Caitlin Clark receives $5 million offer to play in Ice Cube’s BIG 3
IOWA CITY, Iowa – Caitlin Clark has built a brand that should bring plenty of intriguing and potentially lucrative job opportunities for the basketball sensation.
News of such an opportunity broke on Wednesday when TMZ reported that Ice Cube’s BIG 3 basketball league offered the Iowa star $5 million to play in the 2024 season. The rap mogul, born O’Shea Jackson, posted on X on Wednesday after the second round of the NCAA tournament to confirm TMZ’s report of the offer.
“We intended the offer to remain private while Caitlin Clark plays for the championship. But I won’t deny what’s now already out there: BIG3 made a historic offer to Caitlin Clark,” Jackson said while reposting TMZ’s article. “Why wouldn’t we? Caitlin is a generational athlete who can achieve tremendous success in the BIG3.”
Clark is nearing the end of her legendary career with the Iowa Hawkeyes in which she has become the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer for men and women.
Iowa (31-4) has advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16 as a No. 1 seed and will face Colorado on Saturday in Albany, New York.
The Hawkeyes finished as the NCAA runner-up last season.
TMZ reports that the $5 million is guaranteed and would be for eight games with the potential of two playoff games.
Clark, who is from West Des Moines, is expected to be the No. 1 pick of the WNBA draft to the Indiana Fever next month.
She could accept Ice Cube’s offer and still play in the WNBA and WNBA because only two BIG 3 games conflict with the Fever’s schedule.
Clark has been named one of four finalists for the Naismith Player of the Year Award.
She was the consensus National Player of the Year last season.