ESPN's awkward exploration into race in sports featuring Cooper Flagg is framed by this statement: "Let's not act as if we don't live in America and we're not seeing what's happening with Caitlin Clark in the WNBA.

Cooper Flagg has the potential to become one of the faces of the NBA in a few years. So what does he think about the current face of the WNBA, Indiana Fever superstar Caitlin Clark? Flagg was recently asked to make his WNBA Mount Rushmore of the four greatest WNBA players and after listing a few

ESPN faces major backlash after Peter Rosenberg linked Cooper Flagg and Caitlin Clark’s popularity to race on “First Take.”