Fever's White takes leave; Kelly to serve as coach

SAN FRANCISCO -- Indiana Fever manager Stephanie White won't beryllium with the squad arsenic they look the Golden State Valkyries connected Thursday nighttime arsenic she tends to a idiosyncratic matter, the squad said.

It wasn't specified however agelong White volition beryllium distant from the team. Assistant manager Austin Kelly volition service arsenic acting caput coach.

Kelly, who has worked with White since their days with the Connecticut Sun, besides assumed caput coaching duties connected June 7.

"It's going to beryllium the same. I deliberation we are an hold of each other," Kelly said aft Thursday's shootaround. "The connection is inactive the aforesaid that we speech astir successful the locker room: playing for each other, getting it done connected the antiaircraft extremity and past having that assistance substance america connected the violative end. But the vibes are good."

In her archetypal play with the Fever, White led Indiana to a 6-5 commencement and to the Commissioner's Cup Finals.

The Fever are successful the midst of a agelong of 5 games successful 8 days, including a three-game West Coast trip, a home-and-away back-to-back against the Los Angeles Sparks and past astatine the Dallas Wings.

Kelly said the precedence during this agelong is to negociate everyone's minutes.

"We're conscionable trying to negociate everything wrong the crippled and past we're going to enactment a batch connected them to get attraction successful betwixt games," Kelly told ESPN. "We're here, Vegas, Seattle, past backmost home. It's astir america taking attraction of concern connected the floor, archetypal and foremost, and looking for opportunities passim the crippled to negociate those minutes."