Caitlin Clark has the strangest job in professional sports right now. She’s the most popular player in a league where most of her coworkers can’t stand her.

You see it in the numbers. The fans voted her first for the All-Star Game with over 1 million votes. The players ranked her ninth among guards. Not second or third or even fifth — ninth. The 2024 No. 1 overall pick, rookie of the year, and All-WNBA player was ranked behind Brittney Sykes, Natasha Cloud, and a bunch of other players whose jerseys hardly fly off the shelves.