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Caitlin Clark exits crippled precocious for Fever (1:10)
Caitlin Clark appears to beryllium successful symptom with little than a infinitesimal near and exits the crippled for the Fever. (1:10)
Alexa PhilippouJul 16, 2025, 01:34 PM ET
- Covers women's assemblage hoops and the WNBA
- Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant
- Stanford postgraduate and Baltimore autochthonal with further acquisition astatine the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer
NEW YORK -- Indiana Fever prima Caitlin Clark was listed arsenic questionable with a close groin wounded connected the team's wounded study up of Wednesday evening's matchup against the New York Liberty successful Brooklyn.
Clark suffered the injury successful the last infinitesimal of Tuesday night's 85-77 triumph implicit the Connecticut Sun astatine Boston's TD Garden. Fever manager Stephanie White aboriginal told reporters Clark "felt a small thing successful her groin" and that she would beryllium evaluated.
After completing a bounce walk to teammate Kelsey Mitchell with astir 40 seconds left, Clark clutched the wrong of her close thigh earlier walking implicit and banging her caput against the stanchion successful evident frustration. She was visibly affectional arsenic she went to the Fever seat and placed a towel implicit her head.
"I deliberation we conscionable instrumentality it 1 measurement astatine a time," White said connected the anticipation of playing without Clark against New York, successful the 2nd limb of a back-to-back earlier the All-Star break. "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 certainly, 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 challenge, nary substance what, and we've conscionable got to get locked successful and acceptable to compete."
Before this season, Clark had ne'er missed a crippled successful her assemblage oregon pro vocation but she's already been sidelined 9 regular-season games (10 including the Commissioner's Cup final) with ailments truthful acold this summer, including 2 erstwhile injuries to her near quad and different to her near groin.
Indiana is 8-5 with Clark this play and 4-5 without her. The 2024 archetypal squad all-WNBA enactment is averaging 16.5 points, 8.8 assists and 5.0 rebounds this season.
Earlier Tuesday, Clark was named a participant successful Friday's 3-point contest, and she was antecedently announced arsenic a starter and skipper for Saturday's All-Star Game successful Indianapolis. Her presumption for those festivities is unclear.
