'Progressing' Clark likely out for Fever Tuesday

Indiana Fever prima Caitlin Clark is improbable to play successful Tuesday's contention vs. the New York Liberty and volition acquisition further investigating aft suffering a close groin wounded past week, manager Stephanie White said Sunday.

After consulting with doctors aboriginal this week, Clark and the squad should person "hopefully much of a wide enactment of what [the way forward] looks like," White told reporters.

"I deliberation she's progressing," White said. "I deliberation that we're continuing to code everything that needs to beryllium addressed... I don't expect her to beryllium disposable connected Tuesday, truthful we're conscionable going to proceed to instrumentality it 1 time astatine a clip and fto her get her evaluations aboriginal this week."

Clark has missed 10 regular-season games (11 contests wide including the Commissioner's Cup final) with assorted brushed insubstantial injuries, including 1 to her near quad and different to her near groin. She had been backmost connected the level for little than a week erstwhile she wounded her close groin successful the closing seconds of the Fever's triumph this past Tuesday against the Connecticut Sun successful Boston.

Clark, the 2024 No. 1 prime and rookie of the year, had to propulsion retired of this weekend's 3-point contention and All-Star Game successful Indianapolis, wherever she was tabbed the skipper of Team Clark by virtuousness of receiving the astir instrumentality votes.

The 2024 all-WNBA first-team enactment is averaging 16.5 points, 8.8 assists and 5.0 rebounds per crippled successful a disrupted play wherever she hasn't played much than 5 consecutive contests.

Inconsistency has been a taxable for the Fever (12-11) this play betwixt Clark's injury, DeWanna Bonner's midseason departure and different players coming successful and retired of the rotation. But White wants her radical to enactment to eradicate the uneven play that's wrong their control.

"For us, it's astir apt thing we're going to proceed to woody with. These brushed insubstantial injuries sometimes nag until you tin really person clip to truly let them to heal successful the offseason," White said. "So, we'll conscionable instrumentality it 1 time astatine a clip and arsenic they come, and this radical volition proceed to advancement together."