USA TODAY: Sky’s Brianna Turner thinks Caitlin Clark’s massive popularity connects perfectly to the WNBA’s expansion

Chicago Sky forward Brianna Turner thinks it isn’t a coincidence that WNBA expansion and Caitlin Clark’s rise in popularity are seemingly happening in lock-step. Turner believes that can only help the exposure women’s basketball is getting.

Ask many basketball fans who they are watching right now, and there’s a pretty good chance that Caitlin Clark is on that list. The growth of women’s sports, and basketball, in particular, is hard to ignore. That will only continue when Clark joins the WNBA in April. The WNBA is seemingly growing in parallel and has plans to expand to 14 teams by 2025.…