Patrick Mahomes is a true sports connoisseur. Besides other games, Mahomes seems to be pretty invested in the WNBA All-Star vs. Team USA game. As expected, some usual suspects stole the highlights of the game, and amongst them were Caitlin Clark and Arike Ogunbowale, both of whom broke certain records during the game, and it has left the Kansas City Chiefs QB impressed. He took to X and praised the Dallas Wings guard for putting on a show.

“Yo! @Arike_O is hoopin hooping! 💪🏽🔥” wrote Mahomes on X. Ogunbowale got away with 34 points and dropped eight three pointers on Team USA and finished the game with six assists, two steals, and three rebounds. When Patrick Mahomes said Ogunbowale was ‘hoopin,’ he meant business because the Dallas guard won multiple All-Star MVP awards again after achieving the feat in 2021.

Now, she has joined Lisa Leslie (1999, 2001, 2022), Swin Cash (2009, 2011), and Maya Moore (2015, 2017, 2018) as the only player with multiple All-Star MVPs. All this is happening before Team USA goes to Paris to compete in Women’s basketball. Team USA falls in Group C as they are going to play against Japan on 30 July.

But coming back to the game, there seemed to be no hope for the All-Star team because Ogunbowale didn’t even score in the first half of the game. ”Coach (Cheryl Miller) told me I was thinking too much. She told me just to take a breath and breathe in,” Ogunbowale said during a TV interview after the third quarter.

Unfortunately, Caitlin Clark couldn’t deliver this time around, but the good news is that her beef against Angel Reese might come to a halt soon. Clark’s assist to Angel Reese came in the third quarter and it put the team WNBA up by 95-86 over the Team USA.

The players who are otherwise sworn rivals in the WNBA high-fived after scoring the bucket. Though Patrick Mahomes didn’t praise Clark this time around, his respect for her isn’t really a mystery. In fact, Patrick Mahomes is so invested in her career that he even made a prediction.

What Patrick Mahomes said about Caitlin Clark came true!

Patrick Mahomes and Caitlin Clark have a bond that often slips by the paparazzi’s eyes. Mahomes has been a Clark fan since her college days and even the WNBA player grew up as a Chiefs fan. When Clark had a breakout season with Iowa and became the first Division-1 player to have consecutive 1,000-point seasons, Mahomes made sure that he didn’t cut corners and give the credit where it was due.

“She’s just a tremendous player, a tremendous person,” Mahomes said. “I’ve met with her and talked. You can tell she loves the game. … She’s going to be one of the best college basketball players to ever play, then go to the WNBA and dominate there as well.”

As far as we know, Mahomes isn’t as great at basketball as he’s at football and he won’t go against Clark in a 1v1 situation. “Hopefully I’ll never have to play her one-on-one because she’d for sure be getting buckets on me.” But Iowa’s all-time leading scorer has a back and forth dynamic with the back-to-back Super Bowl winner.

Recently, Patrick and Brittany announced they will be welcoming a baby girl into the world soon and Clark couldn’t hold herself back and a reaction was imminent. “Awhhh congrats !!!,” wrote Clark under Patrick Mahomes recent Instagram post titled, “Round three, here we come 🤍.”