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The WNBA Caitlin Clark phenomenon is dealing with an apparent leg problem, his team announced Friday.
Indiana’s fever listed Clark as questionable with the problem of the leg for the beginning of Saturday’s preseason.
There are no more details available on the star’s ailment at this time.
Last season, Clark averaged 19.2 points, 5.7 rebounds and 8.4 assists per game. She beat all rookies in annotations and led the WNBA in average assists, helping fever to return to the playoffs for the first time in eight years.
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Caitlin Clark of Indiana’s fever looks back during the game against Atlanta’s dream at Gateway Center Arena in Atlanta on August 26, 2024. (Photo AP/Brynn Anderson)
But even more than his team depends on Clark, the League and the sport as a whole have supported the star to raise their popularity.
Clark turned fever into the most watched team in the WNBA for a landslide in His rookie yearLike the 14 most seen games of the season, they all involved fever. In addition to that, he broke the record of most of the All-Star votes for any player in the history of the WNBA.
Within the impact of Caitlin Clark on male basketball
Indiana’s fever guard, Caitlin Clark, smiles while looking at the team’s bank during the game against the Dallas Wings at College Park Center in Arlington, Texas, on September 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Tony Gutiérrez)
At the beginning of September 2024, Clark’s fever of Indiana played against a television audience of 1.26 million viewers in a game against Minnesota Lynx that occurred at the same time as a NFL game on Friday 1 of week 1 between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers.
In the first final of Clark’s regular season against the Washington Mystics on September 19, the 20,711 fans who appeared in Capital One Arena in Washington, DC, established a record for the regular season of the highest WNBA.
The Indiana fever guard, Caitlin Clark, dribla during the game against the Dallas Wings in Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on September 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, Archive)
Clark and the fever drawn a WNBA record 1.84 million television viewers at ABC to their first playoff match against Connecticut Sun on September 22, while competing with a NFL Sunday. He followed him with another record audience of 2.54 million viewers for game 2.
But after the fever season ended, the WNBA playoffs saw a strong fall in the spectators.
The first semifinal game between Los Aces de Las Vegas and the New York Liberty, a rematch of last year’s WNBA finals between two of the most popular and successful teams in the League, attracted an audience of only 929,000, which was 50% less than game 1 of the sun’s fever.
