A video of Caitlin Clark in her first workout with new coach Stephanie White for a season that is six months away went viral this week, attracting nearly two million views in the first hours after being posted. Not since Allen Iverson has a practice been scrutinized by so many. Yet Ms. Clark’s haters don’t seem to be going away.

Caitlin Clark – who helped draw crowds to arenas around the country and drive up viewership numbers in her final year of college and then in her rookie year in the WNBA – has been named Time’s Athlete of the Year.