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Posted: 2024-05-23T00:15:37Z | Updated: 2024-05-23T00:15:37Z

LeBron James knows all too well the pressures that come with being a rookie in professional basketball.

During Wednesdays episode of Mind the Game, his podcast with NBA analyst and former NBA player JJ Redick, James offered some advice to WNBA rookie Caitlin Clark, who plays for the Indiana Fever.

Redick was discussing some of the vitriol he thinks Clark has received from some of her peers in the league when he asked the Los Angeles Lakers star to weigh in.

After reflecting on his own experience as a rookie in the NBA 20 years ago, James gave a few words of advice to Clark: Put your blinders on.

Go to work, show up to work, punch your clock in, prepare yourself, work on your game, work on your craft, he said.

He added that rookies should kind of keep your mouth shut ... and just learn from the vets.

James then celebrated the fact that Clark is helping to bring more attention to the WNBA, saying hes rooting for Caitlin.