Now out for about 2 weeks with a quad injury.  Luckily it's early and early season momentum maybe able to carry TV ratings for a bit.

https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/I'd/45331428/fever-caitlin-clark-least-2-weeks-quad-strain

From Jason Whitlock on Facebook:

Can I say this now that the NBA season is over and we're still a few weeks away from NFL training camps?

The Indiana Fever (6-7) are a hot mess. The new coach has taken 2 leaves, the top free agent (who the new coach brought with her) disappeared for "personal reasons."

The biggest asset in all of American professional sports (Caitlin Clark) is being mismanaged by a team and a league in over its heads. No one can write or talk honestly about this hot mess because it involves [edited to: women and sexual preferences], which are pervasive in women's sports.

The WNBA is in the process of blowing the Caitlin Clark gift. Clark is miserable and off her game. It's the most fascinating story in sports.

'As the WNBA Turns' is the best soap opera since Luke and Laura got married on General Hospital.

On 6/24/2025 at 11:07 AM, theguru said:

'As the WNBA Turns' is the best soap opera since Luke and Laura got married on General Hospital.

Nope. Luke & Laura was a happy occasion (even though I was jealous - I had a huge crush on her!).

 

On 1/13/2025 at 4:03 PM, theguru said:

Man was sentenced to 18 months in prison.  Not long enough IMO.  Not just because it was her, but because stalkers deserve worse than just a little jail time.

And most teams still have about 8 games remaining in the season.

Caitlin has officially been shut down for the remainder of the season.

https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/I'd/46160253/fever-star-caitlin-clark-ruled-rest-wnba-season

I'm sure she's as frustrated as anyone, but , if in the long run, she comes back at 100% it will be worth it for now.

This was posted in an Indiana Fever Facebook Group.

I’m going to say this as calmly as possible:

Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach.

Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great.

It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big.

And that is insane.

This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her.

She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude.

No.

Her attitude is not the story.

The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance.

This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.”

That is what this looks like.

The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it.

And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped.

Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd.

You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room.

Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing.

Fans are not stupid.

They see the fouls.

They see the double standards.

They see the jealousy.

They see the media resentment.

They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her.

And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly:

People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled.

They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great.

If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid:

Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark.

At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question:

How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her?

Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse.

It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care.

I've come to realize that 99% of things written on-line about Clark, Steph White, the Fever and their peripheral nemeses, is click bait and not really worth the read.

On 5/21/2024 at 8:54 AM, Oldercoach said:

Wow, I am not one to complain about referees (tough job doesn’t come close).  But, the treatment Clark got last night against Connecticut was blatantly brutal.  The opening play was a defensive kicked ball (not called) resulting in a defensive run out that saw Clark get a phantom foul called on the layup.  So in 1st 12 seconds the refs missed 2 calls and set the tone that the rookie was going to have to earn her bones. Caitlin is obviously physically weaker than the stronger level of mature WNBA competitors.  But the consistent mugging she took and ticky-tacky fouls that seemed to be one-sidedly called against her was visually disturbing.  League going to need to have discussions with refs to cut out the rookie bias before the glitter is gone off this real chance for the league’s profile to exponentially and permanently be raised.  Refs, especially the male, just need to get themselves in position and call the game consistently.

Seems to get worse and worse.

8 hours ago, theguru said:

Seems to get worse and worse.

The league office reviewed the play and Alyssa Thomas was given a flagrant 1 foul and suspended for 1 game.   Not that it did Clark or the Fever any good last night.  But at least the league took the steps to let it be known that these actions should be called out and they will take the steps to do so.

On 6/25/2026 at 8:26 PM, Tranquility Base said:

The league office reviewed the play and Alyssa Thomas was given a flagrant 1 foul and suspended for 1 game.   Not that it did Clark or the Fever any good last night.  But at least the league took the steps to let it be known that these actions should be called out and they will take the steps to do so.

About time, but Caitlin has become too much of a crybaby and might get a little more respect if she would put some big boy(rather big-girl) pants on.

23 minutes ago, Oldercoach said:

About time, but Caitlin has become too much of a crybaby and might get a little more respect if she would put some big boy(rather big-girl) pants on.

Players in every league do that.   LeBron does it every game and no one seems to care.

3 minutes ago, Tranquility Base said:

Players in every league do that.   LeBron does it every game and no one seems to care.

I am very much a Caitlin Clark fan, but while opponents are getting technicals for overly physical play, Caitlin seems to get tricky-tacky Ts for complaining, clapping her hands at opponents and just senseless stuff that accomplishes nothing.

1 minute ago, Oldercoach said:

I am very much a Caitlin Clark fan, but while opponents are getting technicals for overly physical play, Caitlin seems to get tricky-tacky Ts for complaining, clapping her hands at opponents and just senseless stuff that accomplishes nothing.

No argument here, but it's all part of the growing process.

11 hours ago, Tranquility Base said:

No argument here, but it's all part of the growing process.

She has always been the Alpha, but even the greatest have had a mentor to help them grow and mature.  Hope she has one that has her ear.