Clark leaves with groin injury late in Fever win

BOSTON - Indiana Fever prima Caitlin Clark near Tuesday night's 85-77 triumph implicit the Connecticut Sun successful Boston's TD Garden with an evident groin wounded that occurred successful the last minute.

Indiana manager Stephanie White confirmed that Clark "felt a small thing successful her groin," and that she volition get evaluated "and spot what happens from there."

After completing a bounce walk to teammate Kelsey Mitchell for a layup with astir 40 seconds remaining, Clark held the wrong of her close thigh earlier walking implicit and banging her caput against the stanchion successful evident frustration.

Clark was visibly affectional arsenic she went to the Fever bench, placing a towel implicit her head.

Before this season, Clark had ne'er missed a crippled successful her collegiate oregon pro career. But her 2nd WNBA play has been riddled with injuries, and she has missed 9 regular-season games this summer, 10 including the Commissioner's Cup final.

Clark archetypal sat retired a preseason crippled owed to quad tightness, though she played the pursuing time successful an accumulation astatine Iowa. She was aboriginal sidelined 5 games crossed May and June with a near quad strain -- abstracted from the archetypal contented -- and past was sidelined for different two-week agelong crossed precocious June and aboriginal July with a groin wounded connected her near side.

Clark made her instrumentality from the groin wounded little than a week agone successful a nonaccomplishment to the Golden State Valkyries.

Indiana improved Tuesday to 8-5 with Clark this play aft going 4-5 without her. She finished with 14 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists against the Sun and is averaging 16.5 points, 8.8 assists and 5.0 rebounds per crippled this season.

The Fever implicit the 2nd limb of a back-to-back connected Wednesday, erstwhile they look the defending champion New York Liberty successful Brooklyn. Clark, a 2025 All-Star starter and captain, was besides named a subordinate successful Friday's 3-point contention earlier Tuesday.

"I deliberation we conscionable instrumentality it 1 measurement astatine a time," White said. "We'll get immoderate nutrient and get connected the level and commencement talking astir New York. She's being evaluated, we'll spot wherever we are with that, and surely we'll person different evaluation, probably, and speech successful the morning, spot wherever we are. But this radical has played without her. At slightest we've got acquisition successful that.

"We cognize that we person a pugnacious hostile successful New York. We cognize that it's going to beryllium a situation nary substance what and we've conscionable got to get locked successful and acceptable to compete."