Caitlin Clark puts up Reggie Miller-like shooting display in return from injury; scores 9 points in 38 seconds

Caitlin Clark shook disconnected the rust alternatively quickly.

The reigning WNBA Rookie of the Year is playing successful her archetypal crippled successful 3 weeks aft suffering a quad wounded against the reigning champion New York Liberty past period - the aforesaid squad her Indiana Fever are playing connected Saturday.

Clark exploded for 14 points successful the archetypal quarter, with 9 of them coming successful a 38-second span.

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Caitlin Clark, #22 of the Indiana Fever, is introduced earlier the crippled against the New York Liberty during a 2025 Commissioner's Cup crippled connected June 14, 2025, astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis, Indiana.  (A.J. Mast/NBAE via Getty Images)

Clark began her chap Indiana prima Reggie Miller content by hitting a three-pointer with 1:26 near successful the archetypal quarter.

New York's Marine Johnson responded with a 3 of her own, but Clark answered close backmost with different triple 21 seconds aft her archetypal one.

Natasha Cloud of the Liberty could not find her three-pointer to fall, and with the blistery hand, Clark hoisted up different 1 that recovered the bottommost of the nett with 43.1 seconds near successful the first.

The blistery streak lone lasted truthful long, arsenic she missed different 3 astir 14 seconds later, but the shooting spree brought the Fever backmost to wrong 2 points against the champion squad successful the WNBA.

Caitlin Clark, #22 of the Indiana Fever, celebrates during the crippled against the New York Liberty during a 2025 Commissioner's Cup crippled connected June 14, 2025, astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis, Indiana. (A.J. Mast/NBAE via Getty Images)

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Clark got close backmost into the plaything of things, though, hitting each of her adjacent 3 three-pointers. She had 25 points astatine halftime.

Indiana went 2-3 successful Clark's absence, beating some the Washington Mystics and Chicago Sky.

Caitlin Clark #22 of the Indiana Fever shoots the shot during the crippled against the New York Liberty during a 2025 Commissioner's Cup crippled connected June 14, 2025, astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis, Indiana.  (A.J. Mast/NBAE via Getty Images)

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Clark was averaging 19 points, 9.3 assists and six rebounds successful 4 games this play entering Saturday, but that archetypal fig is already going up.

At half, the Fever led the 9-0 Liberty, 53-50.

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