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Caitlin Clark's 3rd-quarter surge outdone by Liberty's precocious comeback (2:20)
Caitlin Clark's third-quarter surge falls abbreviated arsenic Liberty predominate successful the 4th quarter. (2:20)
Alexa PhilippouJun 9, 2025, 02:21 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
Caitlin Clark volition miss Tuesday's crippled against the Atlanta Dream, Indiana Fever manager Stephanie White told reporters connected Monday.
It volition beryllium the 5th consecutive crippled Clark has been retired aft suffering a quad strain connected May 24 against the New York Liberty. The squad initially said connected May 26 that she would beryllium sidelined astatine slightest 2 weeks with the injury; it's the archetypal clip she's missed crippled enactment crossed her collegiate and nonrecreational careers.
Clark said connected Thursday that aft being reevaluated implicit the weekend, she could perchance instrumentality for Tuesday's tilt but that she would not unreserved back. White said connected Monday that Clark is "ready to commencement ramping backmost up" and has been allowed to enactment successful some, but not all, of practice.
"We're going to beryllium smart, and we're going to beryllium cautious and we're going to play the agelong crippled and enactment her backmost successful precise intentionally," White said.
The aforesaid goes for Sophie Cunningham, who has been constricted to conscionable 4 games this play owed to an ankle wounded that she aggravated astatine the extremity of May. White said that Cunningham was besides constricted successful Monday's practice.
After facing Atlanta connected Tuesday, the Fever don't play again until Saturday, erstwhile they big the Liberty -- giving the squad ample signifier clip to spot if Clark and Cunningham are inching person to their returns.
"I deliberation for us, we've got to enactment some [Clark] and Sophie backmost into ... are they successful hoops condition, what does it mean to spell live," White said. "It's 1 happening to bash immoderate shooting drills, it's different happening to get retired determination connected the floor, get backmost into question patterns, rhythm, timing. [We're] picking and choosing the things they tin beryllium successful signifier truthful we tin spot their progression.
"Both of them being retired for agelong periods of time, you've got to enactment your mode backmost into being game-ready."
