Indiana Fever Star Caitlin Clark maintained that she has “privilege” and that she needs to recognize the black WNBA players who helped shape the league for what it is today.

Clark made the first comments in his interview in December with Time Magazine and updated these comments in her interview with comedian David Letterman. The interview was filmed in December, about the same time, the magazine named her athlete of the year and was released earlier this week.

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“I definitely have privilege,” she said on Netflix’s “My Next Guest needs no introduction.”

“A lot of black women who grew up making this league into it is. These are kinds of shoulders that we stand on. So I think it was something I am very aware of and something I am very grateful for. And they certainly deserve all that, and the more we can give the credit to them, the better.

Clark answered Letterman’s questions about whether she felt she was targeting because she is white.

“I don’t think I was targeted,” Clark said.

This year’s WNBA -Rockie talked about having “privilege” in her interview with time months after several of her league colleagues expressed their belief that Race played a factor in her popularity.

Caitlin Clark, #22 by Indiana Fever, talking to Aliyah Boston, #7, against Chicago Sky in the fourth quarter of the game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on June 1, 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

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“I would say that I have served every single thing, but as a white person there is privilege,” Clark told Time. “A lot of the players in the league who have been really good have been black players. This league has been built on them.

“The more we can appreciate it, highlight it, talk about it, and then continue to get brands and businesses to invest in the players who have made this league incredible, I think it’s very important. I have to keep trying to change it. The more we can raise black women it becomes a beautiful thing.”

Clark’s popularity has already become a problem coming into the 2025 season when the fever was put in 41 national TV games.

Indiana Fever Guard Caitlin Clark (22) responds to a call during a game between Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky on Saturday, June 1, 2024 at Grainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Indystar-usa Today Sports)

Four-time All-Star Napheesa Collier said last month it was “kind of crazy” the fever had more TV time than the defending champion of New York Liberty.

“Obviously, people want to watch Caitlin play and you have to put the people on TV that people want to watch. But at the same time there are stars everywhere in the league and you also want good basketball,” Collier said at ESPN. “Obviously, Indiana … will be a good team, but not to have those defense masters on TV anymore, I think it’s a little crazy.”