How Caitlin Clark has handled celebrity status in historic rookie season

Caitlin Clark still goes to the grocery store.

She still likes to go out and buy candles, especially fall spice-scened ones.

And, no, she does not have a chaffeur picking up food for her.

Amid all the fame and fortune hat has followed the Fever superstar, Clark maintained shes still just your average 22-year-old from Iowa navigating her way through life.

I dont feel famous.

I dont feel like a celebrity, so thats not the way I approach my life and approach people in my life, Clark said Thursday night, as captured by Fieldhouse Files .

I feel like thats why people can connect with me because I feel like Im real and authentic to them and try to be as normal as possible.

I never try to seem superior to somebody.

I just try to be somebody that loves playing basketball and loves bringing people joy and I feel very fortunate to do that.

Clark peeled back the curtain a bit to detail her entry into the athletic superstar realm on the day of her final regular-season WNBA game from her historic rookie season .

The former Iowa star has brought record crowds to the WNBA and has seemingly been under the spotlight all season long, whether for her play or the reactions she elicited from fans and players.

Clark finished her rookie season tied for seventh by averaging 19.2 points per game, while adding 5.7 rebounds and 8.4 assists to help lead the Fever to the No.

6 seed .

Along the way, theres been some much-scrutinized interactions with opposing players along with the ever-chronicled rivalry with the Skys Angel Reese .

Clark said shes proud of how shes managed to stay focused amid all the outside noise.

Obviously, this last year of my life, whether it was college or the WNBA, Ive definitely been in the spotlight, Clark said.

I feel like just keeping my mind right at all times is definitely hard when youre 21, 22 years old and youre doing this and everyone has an opinion on you.

but I think for myself, what Im most proud of is Im really good at blocking that out, like I dont really care what people think of me.

I care about what my teammates think of me, I care of what my coaches think of me, I care about how my family feels about me, how my friends feel about me in the close circle that I have.

Teammate Erica Wheeler praised Clark for how shes navigated her first season, which continues Sunday .when the Clark open their first-round playoff series against the Sun in Connecticut.

All we do is have fun with Caitlin Clark who never takes anything seriously, Wheeler said.

I tell people all the time shes really a kid at heart.

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Theres moments where we need to be serious and we are serious, but a majority of the time, were having fun.

Because you gotta understand, the outside world was really trying to get inside this building, we just didnt let it.

And having fun is a great way to kinda keep that out..

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