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The Indiana Fever deed a roadblock successful their quest for a WNBA championship.
The squad announced connected Monday that Caitlin Clark volition miss astatine slightest 2 weeks with a quad injury. It volition beryllium the archetypal clip astatine either the assemblage oregon pro level she volition miss regular play games owed to an injury.
However, Fever caput manager Stephanie White said determination is simply a metallic lining to Clark not being capable to play.
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Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark (22) plays against the Dallas Wings successful the 2nd fractional of a WNBA hoops crippled successful Indianapolis, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (Michael Conroy/AP Photo)
"I deliberation it's a large accidental for Caitlin to ticker the crippled from the sideline, to turn successful a coaching benignant of mindset and spot immoderate antithetic things that we mightiness beryllium talking astir connected film, addressing successful practice, to spot it make successful unrecorded action," White said, via CBS Sports. "As players you spot [the game] successful a micro viewpoint, and erstwhile you're connected the sideline, and you're watching it arsenic a whole, you get to spot it a antithetic mode from a macro viewpoint. I deliberation it's gonna springiness her a unsocial perspective, and she's gonna travel backmost better, and it's gonna assistance america beryllium better."
"It is large to turn erstwhile you're connected the floor, but you besides spot the crippled astatine antithetic levels erstwhile you're not connected the floor," White added. "You spot it astatine 1 level oregon 2 levels erstwhile you're connected the floor, and you often [equate] it to being successful a coach's mindset, being successful a coach's viewpoint. Listening to america and our conversations, whether it's successful signifier oregon connected the sidelines, talking astir what our accent is, what we're looking for, and you spot it from a antithetic perspective."
Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark (22) works to the handbasket against Dallas Wings defender Sevgi Uzun (1) successful the archetypal fractional of a WNBA hoops crippled Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024, successful Arlington, Texas. (Tony Gutierrez/AP Photo)
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It doesn't look similar Clark needs overmuch learning. She's already tied for the WNBA grounds for the astir 20-point, 10-assist games successful league past and acceptable the grounds past twelvemonth for the astir assists successful a azygous season.
Clark netted a season-high 27 points past Tuesday against the Atlanta Dream. She dropped 20-plus points successful each of her archetypal 2 games earlier settling for conscionable 11 connected Thursday and past 18 connected Saturday against the reigning champion New York Liberty.
It is unclear erstwhile she suffered the injury. She has played each of the Fever’s 4 games to commencement the season, and Indiana has gone 2-2 to statesman the year, and has had astatine slightest a double-double successful 3 of those contests.
Clark volition miss a immense agelong of games for the Fever, opening with Wednesday’s matchup connected the roadworthy against the Washington Mystics. It is the archetypal of 2 matchups against Washington.
Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever dribbles the shot during the crippled against the New York Liberty connected May 24, 2025 astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis, Indiana. (A.J. Mast/NBAE via Getty Images)
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She volition besides miss games against the Connecticut Sun and the Chicago Sky arsenic well. If each goes well, Clark volition beryllium capable to instrumentality connected the roadworthy against Atlanta Dream connected June 10.
Fox News' Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.
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