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Troy Renck: It feels like the WNBA and USA Basketball will only be happy if they are in the C boarding group on Southwest Airlines, playing before half-empty arenas filled with ride-or-die fans telling the rest of us how we don’t get it. This issue resurfaced over the weekend when Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark was not selected for the American team for the Paris Olympics.

Schools are letting out for summer around the country and break arrives for the Broncos by the end of this week, too. There’s plenty of work left to be done, though, over the team’s three-day mandatory minicamp, which begins Tuesday. These are the first mandatory days of the offseason. Most players and coaches have been participating in the voluntary work since before the NFL Draft.

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