Lynx's Napheesa Collier and Fever's Caitlin Clark are compared to Red Grange and Tiger Woods as they advanced 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 launches in Miami in January and gives WNBA players a chance to earn money in the offseason without having to play overseas.

In this respect, Collier is a bit like the great running back Red Grange, who capitalized on his popularity by launching a spectacular football tour that helped popularize football in America.

Clark reminds us of someone a little younger and much more influential.

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

Long before Fuzzy Zoeller made racist comments about Woods at the Masters, other golf professionals were simply disgusted by Woods' undeserved fame. They viewed him as a sideshow, a novelty, rather than someone who would dominate the tour.

They were wrong in many ways. Woods stormed past the field at the Masters at age 21 and became perhaps the most dominant golfer of all time in his prime.