"Caitlin Clark you've got competition" - WNBA fans impressed as young Fever fan nearly beats Pacers' Bennedict Mathurin in playful challenge

WNBA fans reacted to a young Caitlin Clark fan who nearly beat Indiana Pacers guard Bennedict Mathurin in a playful challenge. The young girl wore Clark's Fever jersey while she competed against other grown-up players, including Mathurin at the Corporate Partnership Family Fun event.

The video, posted on Instagram by the Pacers and the Fever on Friday, showed the fan making jump shot after jump shot from the free throw line with a great shooting form.

At the end of the challenge, only she and Pacers guard Mathurin were left in the competition. Before she could beat Mathurin, he hilariously ended the game with a putback dunk.

Take a look here:

WNBA fans were impressed with the young fans' hooping skills and one even called her mini Caitlin Clark.

"Awesome!! Love seeing the enthusiasm of the kids and Pacers to encourage them to play sports. She’s a mini CC!🔥🏀."

One of the fans wrote that, Clark would be proud but another wrote that Clark already had a competition in making.

"@caitlinclark22 You've got competition 👀," the fan wrote.

"Nice shooting, Caitlin would be proud, she needs to work on dribbling the ball back to the free throw line or when making a layup," the fan wrote.

Another fan wrote that it wasn't shooting but Clark's confidence that the young fan had more in common with the Fever star.

"She fr embodies the biggest CC characteristic and it’s not pure shooting form… CONFIDENCE," the fan wrote.

Some of the fans already declared the fan to become the next Caitlin Clark.

"The next CC may be right here," one fan wrote.

"Please tell me we already have a second Caitlin Clarke in the works 🙏🏼," another fan wrote.

"Caitlin 2.0🔥🔥🔥."

[Credit: IG/@pacers] [Credit: IG/@pacers]

[Credit: IG/@pacers]

[Credit: IG/@pacers]

JuJu Watkins supports Caitlin Clark winning Time Athlete of the Year

After Caitlin Clark was named Time Magazine's 2024 Athlete of the Year, opinions flooded from everywhere and of every kind. While some parts of the sports world supported Time's choice to recognize Clark's impact on the game, some sat at odds with the choice.

USC Trojans' guard JuJu Watkins fully agreed with the magazines' decision to name Clark. In a conversation with Fox News, the Trojans star said that the Fever star fully deserved it because of how she had been able to change the sport for good.

"I'm all for it," Watkins said. "I honestly think she deserves it. I don't think anyone has changed the trajectory of the sport so much, so I honestly think she deserves every bit of it."

Previously, Washington Mystics' co-owner Sheila Johnson said that instead of Clark on the cover of the magazine, the whole WNBA should have been on the cover.

According to Johnson, putting Clark alone on the cover would create "hard feelings" among other players.