Fever star Caitlin Clark out at least 2 weeks with left quad strain

The Associated Press

· Posted: May 26, 2025 3:06 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Indiana Fever prima Caitlin Clark volition miss astatine slightest 2 weeks aft straining her near quadriceps during Saturday's 90-88 nonaccomplishment to the defending WNBA champion New York Liberty.

Coach Stephanie White told reporters Monday she wasn't definite precisely erstwhile Clark was injured but was told aft the crippled she had "something going connected with her leg." An MRI confirmed the diagnosis. Clark's lack could upwind up being a large stroke for 1 of the league's rubric favorites.

"Obviously, she wants to play and, obviously, everyone wants to spot her play," White said pursuing Monday's practice. "But for me, it's astir maintaining perspective. It's making definite that we code this that doesn't impact the agelong term, that we instrumentality attraction of it and don't overpush, don't overexert."

Clark was not seen with her teammates astatine the extremity of signifier and was not disposable for comment. Team officials said further updates volition beryllium provided arsenic circumstances warrant.

It's the archetypal clip successful Clark's vocation she's missed a crippled aft playing successful each 40 games and some playoff games past play and the archetypal 4 games this year. She did miss Indiana's archetypal preseason crippled this twelvemonth with a limb injury.

Afterward, White complained that New York was not called for a foul. Clark is averaging 19.0 points, 9.3 assists and 6.0 rebounds this play arsenic the Fever person opened with a 2-2 mark. Indiana returns to enactment Wednesday astatine Washington and Clark is expected to miss that crippled arsenic good arsenic location contests against Connecticut and Washington and Indiana's rematch astatine Chicago connected June 7 against Clark's rival, Angel Reese.

The league's apical drafting subordinate could miss further time, but the Fever look much susceptible of winning without Clark this play aft utilizing the off-season to bring successful a ample radical of seasoned players with title experience.

It's unclear conscionable however the Fever volition effort to regenerate Clark's play-making ability.

"Sometimes large players don't archer you erstwhile they're hurting," White said. "I'm gladsome that she did due to the fact that we request to nip this successful the bud."

Clark acceptable a single-season league grounds past play with 337 assists aft starring the Iowa Hawkeyes to back-to-back nationalist runner-up finishes successful college.