Caitlin Clark returns from injury with a vengeance; Liberty's perfect record falls

The New York Liberty are nary longer undefeated, and they tin blasted Caitlin Clark.

Clark lit up the scoreboard successful her instrumentality from injury, and the Indiana Fever bushed the reigning WNBA champions, 102-88.

The Liberty, who entered the crippled astatine 9-0, led by arsenic galore arsenic 11 successful the archetypal quarter, but past Caitlin Clark happened. Clark missed 5 games aft injuring her quad against this aforesaid Liberty squad 3 weeks ago, but she hardly looked rusty.

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Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark high-fives fans aft scoring a 3-pointer Saturday, June 14, 2025, during a crippled against the New York Liberty astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis. (Grace Smith/IndyStar/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

Clark knocked down six of her archetypal 9 3-pointers and dropped 25 points successful the archetypal half, the astir she's ever had successful immoderate fractional successful her career. The large stroke from that archetypal half, though, was her Reggie Miller-esque agelong during which she went 3-for-3 from heavy in a 38-second span. Indiana led 53-50 astatine the half.

New York scored 9 unanswered points to unfastened the 2nd half, but the Fever rapidly answered with 19 consecutive points of their ain to footwear disconnected a chaotic 25-3 tally to pb by 16, their largest of the day.

The Liberty, though, went connected a 14-2 tally of their ain to chopped their shortage to conscionable 4 points. After they yet made it a three-point game, the crippled of runs continued, arsenic Indiana scored 17 of the game's adjacent 21 points to again pb by 16.

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

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Clark was not capable to proceed her blistery first-half shooting successful the second. She scored 7 points successful the 3rd 4th and went scoreless successful the fourth, making conscionable 1 of her 5 3-pointers successful the 2nd half.

But Lexie Hull, Damiris Dantas, Sydney Colson and Sophie Cunningham combined to sound down 7 of 11 3-pointers (Sophie Cunningham went 3-for-10 from deep). The Fever drained 17 3-pointers, a franchise record, and Clark's 7 tied a vocation high.

Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark (22) and Indiana Fever defender Lexie Hull (10) high-five Saturday, June 14, 2025, during a crippled against the New York Liberty astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis. (Grace Smith/IndyStar/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

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Clark finished with 32 points, the second-most she's had successful a WNBA game. She was 1 assistance distant from a double-double, and she besides grabbed 8 rebounds.

Indiana went 2-3 with Clark shelved and are present 3-2 with her connected the floor. Those 2 losses person travel by a combined 3 points.

The Fever volition big the Connecticut Sun Tuesday, portion New York volition instrumentality to the Big Apple for a day with the Atlanta Dream.

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