Caitlin Clark just did something no athlete has done since Michael Jordan

Breakout basketball star Caitlin Clark has a new achievement that hasn’t been accomplished since Michael Jordan.

The WNBA player signed a multiyear deal with Wilson Sporting Goods Co., the league’s official basketball supplier, for “signature basketball collections celebrating Clark’s continued legacy,” the company announced Tuesday.

Wilson said that Clark will “test, advise and provide feedback on a range” of its basketball products, become a brand ambassador and release new collections that celebrate her throughout the rest of 2024. In addition, she will “creatively direct her first-ever signature basketball line” that will roll out later this year.

Financial terms of the deal were not released.

She’s the first-ever female athlete to have her own collection with Wilson, a company spokesperson told CNN, with the series being built similar to Jordan’s collection in the 1980s, which included signature basketballs.

“Wilson has been with me across some of the most pivotal moments in my career so far, and I couldn’t be more excited to continue driving basketball forward alongside them,” Clark said in a press release. “It feels surreal to have my own basketball collection, and to affect what that means for future generations of athletes.”

The first collection released Tuesday on Wilson’s website, with a limited collection of gold-colored basketballs featuring a drawing of Clark along with her signature.

Wilson, which has produced the basketballs for the NBA for several decades, became the official game ball of the WNBA in 2020. The company also sells basketballs with WNBA team logos on them.

Clark, the no. 1 draft pick, joined the Indiana Fever earlier this month and has been a boon for the league since: Her debut drew an average of 2.1 million viewers on ESPN2, ESPN+ and Disney+, making it the most watched WNBA game in more than two decades.

Nike is also reportedly on the verge of signing Clark to design her shoe line, but no official deal has been formally announced. She also has sponsorship deals with State Farm, Gatorade, Panini and others, valued at around $3 million.

There is no off switch for Caitlin Clark.

After garnering fame as an All-American point guard for Iowa — and becoming the NCAA’s Division I all-time scoring leader across women’s and men’s basketball — the Indiana Fever guard explained the difficult side of life in the spotlight.

“The hardest part about being Caitlin Clark? I’d say is having to feel like you’re always on,” Clark said in the ESPN+ four-part series “Full Court Press,” which premiered Saturday. “You just have bad days, and there are days where you don’t want to talk to anyone.

“But somebody comes up to you, and this is their 10-second interaction with you. So you better smile and be kind. But at the same time, it’s just like, you just want to be normal sometimes.”

The 22-year-old Clark, who was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft last month, and her boyfriend, Connor McCaffery were filmed while out to breakfast at The Dandy Lion in Iowa City at the time.

It was the day after Iowa’s dominant 84-57 win over Indiana on Jan. 13.

The couple was standing by the front door, waiting for a table, when multiple fans walked by and gave Clark compliments, such as, “You’re amazing,” and “You were awesome.”

One woman said, “We drove from Chicago to see you yesterday, to see the whole team.”

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Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark dribbles the ball against the Dallas Wings during the first half of an WNBA basketball game in Arlington, Texas, Friday, May 3, 2024.AP

Clark, an Iowa native, then stepped outside to take photos with fans.

When she and McCaffery sat down at a table to eat, another fan walked over and said, “Good game,” before giving her a high-five.

Clark’s smile quickly faded after the fan walked away and she looked somber while taking a drink of water.

“This is not the same as what it was. Me and you, we cannot go and just walk around like nobody knows who you are. That’s not the reality of the situation,” McCaffery said in the documentary. “And I think there are still moments when she realizes that, like, ‘Damn, that kind of sucks.'”

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It’s unclear when Clark and McCaffery, who currently works as a team assistant for the Indiana Pacers, got together. She went public with their relationship on social media in August 2023.

Clark’s life changed drastically after her rise to fame at Iowa, where her celebrity helped boost economy and sell out season tickets at Carver-Hawkeye Arena for the first time in program history.

The sold-out crowds, which saw fans travel from across the United States to see Clark, added as much as $82.5 million to the state’s economy, according to a report from the Common Sense Institute.

Clark’s star power played a major role in the growth and dominance of women’s college basketball throughout March Madness — and it has since carried over to the WNBA.

The 2024 WNBA draft was the most-watched ever with 2.45 million viewers.

A few teams, including the Aces, Mystics and Sparks have moved arenas to accommodate fans when they play Clark and the Fever.

Some WNBA teams have increased ticket prices for games against Indiana, according to Front Office Sports.

The WNBA has also finally started a charter program so its teams can stop flying commcercial.