
Since their college days, Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark and Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese have fended off repeated comparisons to Hall of Fame forward Larry Bird and guard Magic Johnson.
The founding facts of their rivalry—they played each other in two iconic college games; those games brought unprecedented visibility to women's college basketball—invited enough commentary on their own. Now that both Clark and Reese have found immediate professional success, the comparisons have grown even louder.