David Portnoy – El Presidente eviscerates Team USA leaving WNBA rookie phenom Caitlin Clark off its Olympic roster. The Barstool Sports founder argues the league tremendously blew a golden opportunity to grow the sport of women’s basketball.

The expected snub of Caitlin Clark from the U.S. Olympic women’s basketball roster for the summer games is a “missed opportunity,” Dan Dakich, host of OutKick’s “Don’t @ Me,” said Sunday.

“They could have had more eyeballs on women’s basketball, which would have equated to going back to your season and finishing up even stronger, but now it’s just same old, same old. No one’s going to pay attention, and that’s a missed opportunity, and a really dumb missed opportunity,” he told co-host Will Cain on “Fox & Friends Weekend.

His comments came on the heels of a report from The Athletic saying the Indiana Fever star would be left off the final roster for the 2024 Paris summer games.

After being named to the national team’s 14-person roster for training camp in Cleveland, Ohio, in early April, she was unable to attend USA Basketball’s training camp because she was focused on playing for the Iowa Hawkeyes in the NCAA tournament.

USA Basketball has yet to formally confirm the roster for this year’s Olympic team, however.

While some reports speculate the decision stems from Clark’s rookie status, others like Dakich struggle to make sense of the move to leave her off the roster.

“There’s no basketball player that’s a bigger draw right now in the world — in the world, I would argue — than Caitlin Clark,” he said.

“Let’s be honest, most people didn’t even know they had women’s basketball in the Summer Olympics. Now you have a chance to do this, and you don’t take it… “