Indiana Fever point guard Caitlin Clark appeared on millions of television screens on Sunday night.
During a Super Bowl LIX matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs, Nike aired a special advertisement featuring several of its most prominent female athletes: including Clark.
“CAITLIN CLARK. Logo Legend. NCAA All-Time leading scorer and a walking bucket. Time’s 2024 Athlete of the Year. WNBA Rookie of the Year,” Nike wrote on X.
This commercial release marks Nike’s first Super Bowl ad in 27 years.
After the advertisement dropped, Clark took to social media with a special post of her own.
“You’ll be told you can’t do it. So do it anyway,” Clark wrote on Instagram.
Several prominent figures flooded Clark’s comment section with reactions to her post, including her former Iowa Hawkeyes basketball teammate Kate Martin.
“Never listen to the haters,” Martin wrote.
Clark and Martin were Iowa teammates from 2020-24 before entering the league together as members of the 2024 WNBA Draft class. Clark went No. 1 overall to the Fever and Martin was selected by the Las Vegas Aces at No. 18. Martin was picked up by the Golden State Valkyries in an expansion draft earlier this offseason.
Iowa alumni Kate Martin (left) and Caitlin Clark (Photo: Rob Howe/HawkeyeNation.com)
Clark put together a historic rookie season with the Fever in 2024, averaging 19.2 points, 5.7 rebounds and a league-leading 8.4 assists per game. The 23-year-old basketball phenom will return to the WNBA court for her second professional season with Indianapolis in 2025.
