Lynx’s Napheesa Collier and Fever’s Caitlin Clark are being compared to Red Grange and Tiger Woods as they make it big in the WNBA and women’s basketball

Collier, along with New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart, is the founder of Unrivaled, a three-on-three women’s league that will launch in Miami in January and give WNBA players a chance to earn money in the offseason without playing abroad.

In this way, Collier resembles the great runner Red Grange, who rose to fame by launching a spectacular football tour that popularized football in America.

Clark reminds me of someone a little more recent and much more influential.

When Tiger Woods joined the PGA Tour at age 20, he was met with envy and disbelief.

Long before Fuzzy Zoeller made racist comments about Woods at The Masters, other golf pros were disgusted by Woods’ undeserved fame, viewing him as a sideshow, a novelty, rather than someone who would dominate the tour.

They were wrong in many ways. Woods would tear the field apart at The Masters at age 21 and become, in the prime of his career, perhaps the most dominant golfer ever.