Four-time WNBA champion and gold medal-winning basketball legend Sue Bird spent a part of International Women’s Day speaking with Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show.” The pair chatted about “John590 from Twitter with no profile pic” who claims nobody watches ladies’s sports activities, together with ladies’s basketball in 2024 and her media firm Togethxr. Bird introduced Fallon and his daughters the brand’s T-shirt, which reads, “Everyone watches women’s sports.”
“It’s a play on people saying, ‘Oh, nobody watches women’s sports,’” Bird mentioned, delivering the road in her finest bro voice. “Like John590 from Twitter with no profile pic. So we’re like, actually — and now the numbers show, which is amazing — now we actually have data to it. Actually, everybody, everyone, watches women’s sports.”
The two spoke about Iowa NCAA star Caitlin Clark, who’s poised to be the No. 1 decide within the 2024 WNBA draft. Bird advised Fallon that Clark is a part of an necessary second within the historical past of girls’s sports activities.
“She’s obviously doing amazing,” Bird mentioned. “Her game speaks for itself. I think my favorite part is just women’s basketball — women’s sports, really, but women’s basketball — has been on the rise. And it’s kind of like what Magic and Bird was to men’s basketball, like this moment. We kind of needed something. And Caitlin’s that moment.”
“And I think a lot of it has to do with her logo threes,” Bird added of Clark’s deep 3-point photographs from the position of the WNBA emblem on the courtroom. “Speaking of John529 from Twitter, ‘oh, women don’t dunk,’” she added with the return of her bro voice, earlier than she laughed, “That’s what he sounds like. But you can’t really talk trash on a logo three.”
On Friday, Clark broke the NCAA Division 1 record for 3-pointers in a single season by a person or lady. The earlier holder of the report was Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry.
Fallon commented on simply how far-off the shot is, then advised Bird that she “kind of set the stage for all of these athletes to come up and get the attention. You were one of the first big names to come out and do it,” earlier than he launched her documentary, “Sue Bird in the Clutch.”
The movie, which covers Bird’s total profession from highschool to the Olympics to the WNBA, might be available to stream on March 29.
Bird advised Fallon that she wished to make the documentary partially due to the matters that they’d already mentioned. “Women’s sports is on the rise now. But you know, we’ve had to kind of grind a little bit to get there, and what’s been lacking is some of the storytelling.”
“So when I got approached to do this, I was like, ‘All right, I don’t know if I’m going to love having cameras in my face all the time,’ but I felt like I had to do it. Right, like, get my story out there — hopefully, it opens doors for other people’s stories — and I really did have an amazing time doing it,” she added.
Sue Bird retired from the WNBA on the finish of the 2022 season after a 19-year profession with the Seattle Storm. She was the No. 1 decide within the 2002 WNBA Draft and led her crew to 4 titles, performed in 13 All-Star video games and was on eight All-WNBA groups. She was additionally the league’s all-time chief in assists and video games performed.
Watch the interview with Sue Bird within the video on the high of this story.
