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The WNBA has seen a significant drop in television classifications, while the Indiana fever star Caitlin Clark It remains marginalized with a quadruple lesion.
Clark has lost five consecutive games after she tightened a quadriceps during Fever 90-88 defeat against New York’s freedom last month.
Initially, it was expected that two weeks were lost, but the second year guard has not yet been authorized for Saturday’s game against La Libertad, which will mark three weeks.
The Indiana fever guard, Caitlin Clark (22), questions an officer on May 4, 2025, during a preseason game against the Brazilian national team in Carver-Hawkeye Arena in the city of Iowa. (IMAGN)
His absence in court has not only harmed the fever. He has injured the WNBA TV classifications.
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USA today On Thursday he informed that, according to Nielsen’s data, the WNBA televised audience has decreased 55% since Clark was injured on May 24. The report said that the televised fever games nationwide have also dropped 53%.
Outkick clarified Those numbers, which report that the four previous games that Clark played, two were broadcast on CBS and ABC. A third was broadcast on NBA television, and Nielsen did not qualify a room because it was broadcast on Amazon Prime.
Three of the four fever games after Clark was injured was broadcast on NBA TV or Ion. And the most recent game of the Chicago Sky fever attracted an average of 1.92 million viewers, WNBA announced on Tuesday.
Indiana Caitlin Clark fever guard (22) and Chicago striker Sky Angel Reese (5) shake hands before a game in Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on May 17, 2025. (Trevor Ruszkowski/Magm images)
Fever, the confrontation of heaven attracts a large audience when an injured Caitlin Clark applauds from the margin
These numbers reflect the third highest audience for a game carried by CBS. It was also a great increase in the average regular seasonal season audience. But it was a fall in the first game of the season between those two teams.
The fever chief coach, Stephanie White, said Monday that the team is ready for Clark to begin to “increase again”, but she didn’t say if she was still clear for basketball activities. White added Thursday that Clark and Sophie Cunningham, which have been marginalized since May 30, had “limited” repetitions during practice.
The Indiana Caitlin Clark fever guard (22) with chief coach Stephanie White during the third quarter against the Brazilian national team in the Carver-Haweye Arena. (Jeffrey Becker/Imagn images)
Clark averages 19 points, 9.3 assists and six rebounds in four games this season.
